Is Chavez Hacking Twitter Accounts?

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If he is, he might be the first national President to do that. If he is joking or playing, then that’s really funny.

‘Despite his reputation as a darling of the Left for his anti-American rhetoric, Venezuela’s strongman Hugo Chávez is known by many in his country as a dedicated suppressor of free speech. An article in the International Herald Tribune today by Francisco Toro spells out the lengths Chávez has gone to stifle one of his bêtes noires, Twitter.
‘The Twitter accounts of many of Chávez’s critics have suddenly begun spewing pro-Chávez, anti-opposition propaganda. More recently, the tack the hackers have taken has begun to show more subtlety…’
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/venezuelas_chavez_uses_cubans_to_hack_twitter.php

Millions of Printers Can be Hacked
Researchers call it a major vulnerability

‘Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it could eventually catch fire? Or use a hijacked printer as a copy machine for criminals, making it easy to commit identity theft or even take control of entire networks that would otherwise be secure?
‘It’s not only possible, but likely, say researchers at Columbia University, who claim they’ve discovered a new class of computer security flaws that could impact millions of businesses, consumers, and even government agencies…’
http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/29/9076395-exclusive-millions-of-printers-open-to-devastating-hack-attack-researchers-say
It seems the only way to prevent this for now is to block your printer port:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf1M7RCBPEE

‘Journalists Hacked UK Government’
Murdoch possibly getting into bigger trouble
Murdoch’s PI’s are being investigated for possible hacking into the PC of a former British minister

‘UK police have warned a former British Cabinet minister that they are investigating evidence that his computer has hacked by private detectives working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International organisation and the disgraced “News of the World” newspaper.
‘Peter Hain, who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2005-2007, has been told by Scotland Yard that computers belonging to him, containing sensitive intelligence material, may have been compromised…’
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/11/29/journalists-hacked-uk-government-police-investigate-claims/

 

Tether Your iPhone to Your Laptop Without a Monthly Fee
You can do that with only a one-time fee of $15

‘You’re already paying a monthly fee for Internet access at home and an additional fee of equal or greater size for your smartphone’s data plan. When all is said and done, you end up paying nearly $2,000 a year to access the Web from two devices, but only one of those connections is mobile and ubiquitous, unless you pay extra to take your home ISP with you on the road.

‘With these costs, paying an additional $15 to $50 to tether your iPhone to your laptop can seem difficult to stomach. Well, now you may not have to. For whatever reason, Apple has approved an iOS app that lets you do exactly that for a one-time fee of $15…’
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tether_iphone_to_laptop_personal_hotspot.php

Dumber Criminal
Kidnapper Sues His Former Victims
He says they broke deal to hide him from police

‘Jesse Dimmick is suing the couple he was convicted of kidnapping while on the run from police.
‘Dimmick contends in the breach of contract suit seeking $235,000 that after he entered Jared and Lindsay Rowley’s house in 2009, they reached a legally binding, oral contract that they would hide him for an unspecified amount of money.

‘“Later, the Rowleys reneged on said oral contract, resulting in my being shot in the back by authorities,” Dimmick wrote in a notarized legal document indicating he was filing the counterclaim in response to a suit against Dimmick that the Rowleys filed in September…’
http://cjonline.com/news/2011-11-28/dimmick-sues-couple-he-kidnapped

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