U.S. ‘Hacker’ Crackdown Sparks Debate Over Computer Fraud Law
In June 2010, Andrew Auernheimer, a well-known Internet security expert, discovered a gaping hole in AT&T’s website that exposed 114,000 email addresses belonging to the wireless giant’s Apple iPad customers. After a colleague downloaded the data, Auernheimer passed the information to a journalist at the wesbite Gawker. The episode was a major embarrassment for AT&T because the list included thousands of high-profile individuals, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and then-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. AT&T quickly patched the hole. The FBI promptly launched an investigation, and last November, Auernheimer was convicted of two felony counts under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1980s-era law originally designed to punish and deter intrusions into government and financial industry computer systems. His colleague, Daniel Spitler, pleaded guilty last year. On Monday, Auernheimer, 27, was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay $73,000 ...
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PODCAST: McDonald's gets the boot, housing starts hit a new roof
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 09:22 Joe Raedle/Getty Images After 20 years, McDonalds is being evicted from its location in the upscale Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Nike said this morning it has severed its endorsement deal with Lance Armstrong. Armstrong also says he is stepping down as chair of the Livestrong cancer charity he founded. He says he doesn't want the doping allegations against him to distract from its mission. Markets are up in Europe after Moody's kept its credit rating for Spain right where it was . Spain has also been sending increasing signals it will ask for a bailout. A major Spanish index, the IBEX 35, ended the day up 2.3 percent. New construction on apartments and single family homes reached the highest point in September in more than four years . New mortgage applications for home purchases were lalso up last week. Bank of America reports an official quarterly profit of essentially "nothing-per-share." The bank got hammered by a legal settlement related to ...
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Apple Supplier Foxconn Employs 14-Year-Olds
Young interns were found working on assembly lines at the the company in China which makes the iPhone and iPad.
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China's Foxconn worker riot and Iran's shadow Internet
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 03:02 MIKE CLARKE/AFP/Getty Images A group of protestors from SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour) demonstrate outside the Foxconn annual general meeting (AGM) in Hong Kong on May 18, 2011. With all this information technology at our disposal, it's striking how getting to the truth of a matter can still be so tough. Two tech stories from opposite sides of the world today remind us how even in 2012 the flow of information is still tightly controlled. First, Iran, where authorities seem to be restricting access to some big websites . Cyrus Farivar is an editor at the online technology publication, Ars Technica. "There were reports that Iran had blocked Gmail and Google," says Cyrus Farivar, an editor at Ars Technica, "thereby cutting off Iranian internet users from using those popular internet services." The reason for the interruption? Some Iranian media report the temporary restriction was in response to protests over the inflammatory ...
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Foxconn factory shut down following riots
Monday, September 24, 2012 - 04:03 STR/AFP/GettyImages This photo taken on May 27, 2010 shows Chinese workers outside the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, southern China's Guangdong province. The company that makes Apple's iPhones and iPads in China has shut down one of its factories following a riot by workers . Thousands of people were involved in a fight at a Foxconn factory in Northern China last night. And the factory is expected to stay closed until tomorrow. The factory, located in the city of Taiyuan, employs about 79,000 workers . The fight at first broke out as a fistfight between a few members of different business groups -- defined as a group of workers making products for a certain company. The brawl quickly escalated and by the end included around 2,000 people, including bystanders. Forty people were injured in the clash, and one person was stabbed. Marketplace's China bureau chief Rob Schmitz talked to a spokesman from Foxconn, who says he is not sure why they were fighting, and ...
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