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BBC NEWS | England | London | Tsunami fund 'hacking' is probed
BBC NEWS | England | London | Tsunami fund 'hacking' is probed: "Tsunami fund 'hacking' is probed
An attempt to hack into the website of the Disasters and Emergency Committee (DEC) that was set up after the Asian tsunami, is being investigated.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit have begun an inquiry after BT blocked the attempt on New Year's Eve.
A 28-year-old man from east London was arrested and released on bail in connection with alleged offences.
Police are examining computer equipment seized during a search.
The bailed man, who was arrested under the Computer Misuse Act at an address in London's Bishopsgate on Thursday, is due to return to a police station in February.
A spokesman for the Met said the DEC website continued to be secure and the systems in place meant the attempted breach was identified and blocked very quickly.
The DEC, which estimates to raise ?200m to help tsunami victims, said it was alerted by BT staff.
Chief executive Brendan Gormley reassured the public that 'every penny' donated over the internet was safe and had reached the DEC. "
Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser
Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser: "ailed for using a nonstandard browser
A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this 'unusual' event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested him. From a mailing list:"
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
High-Tech Spacesuits Eyed for ‘Extreme ExplorationFuture explorers on the Moon and Mars could be outfitted in lightweight, high-tech spacesuits that offer far more flexibility than the bulky suits that have been used for spacewalks in the 1960s.
Research is under way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a Bio-Suit System that incorporates a suit designed to augment a person’s biological skin by providing mechanical counter-pressure. The “epidermis” of such a second skin could be applied in spray-on fashion in the form of an organic, biodegradable layer.
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