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Lost cell phone project confirms people are jerks – Seattle Post Intelligencer

Don’t expect people to be morally upright when it comes to lost phones. A study from Computer security firm Symantec Corp. (consider the source) reveals that people don’t always shine with human kindness when it comes to misplaced personal electronics.
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Cyberattack linked to North Korea rattles South Korea, allies – Seattle Times

Such an attack is relatively cheap to launch … which uses the same industrial software that was targeted by Stuxnet, a computer virus. Stuxnet damaged centrifuges in an Iranian nuclear plant in 2009 and 2010. A North Korean cyberwarfare …
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Computer attacks on Iranian industrial facilities linked to wealthy group or nation – Seattle Times

A powerful computer code attacking industrial facilities around the world, but mainly in Iran, probably was created by experts working for a country or a well-funded private group, according to an analysis by a leading computer security company. The …
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Local computer security expert investigates police practices – Seattle Post Intelligencer

Eric Rachner sits in the back of a police car the night he was arrested for obstructing an officer. This image is taken from video footage recorded by a camera inside the vehicle — footage that Seattle police long maintained had been erased. A …
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