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            <title>SpaceShipOne firm to build DARPA's Heliplane</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/spaceshipone-firm-to-build-darpa%27s-heliplane-2008072150420/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The US military's ongoing bid to revive grand old vertical lift concepts of the 1950s under the name "Heliplane" has gained a new lease of life. The financially-distressed main contractor is to be replaced by researchers at the Georgia Institute of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Brown's aide, Mata Hari and the BlackBerry</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/brown%27s-aide,-mata-hari-and-the-blackberry-2008072150421/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[One of Gordon Brown's senior advisers lost his BlackBerry on a recent trip to China after he was picked up by a woman in a disco.

Downing Street is insisting the device was lost rather than stolen, but the incident is bound to raise more...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>US cyberspying fears hang over Beijing Olympics</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/us-cyberspying-fears-hang-over-beijing-olympics-2008072150422/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[US paranoia about Chinese computer hackers has created a diplomatic dilemma about whether or not to warn visitors and business people traveling to next month's Beijing Olympics about cyber-security risks.

Last month the department of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Dell hits all the wrong keys ? again</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/hardware/dell-hits-all-the-wrong-keys-?-again-2008072150429/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Dell isn&#8217;t having much luck with keyboards this summer. The computer giant admitted Friday that some of its XPS One machines have been wrongly shipped to the UK with US keyboards.

We were alerted to Dell&#8217;s latest embarrassing...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Dell's Ubuntu love-in expands to new laptops</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Linux lovers take note, Dell is feeling another round of the community spirit tugging on its heartstrings.






The Round Rock vendor said...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Power6 meets Tukwila meets Rock meets SPARC64 in chip death match</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/hardware/power6-meets-tukwila-meets-rock-meets-sparc64-in-chip-death-match-2008071850431/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hot Chips The grandest chip unveiling in many, many years will take place this August on the campus of Stanford University.

At the annual Hot Chips ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Dublin airport was crippled by flakey network card</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/hardware/dublin-airport-was-crippled-by-flakey-network-card-2008071850432/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[An air traffic control fault that brought Dublin airport to its knees last week has been traced to an intermittently flakey network card.

Sadly, while the problem was simple enough to diagnose, it&#8217;ll be weeks before the airport&#8217;s...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Government kids website pays £6 for every visitor</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/government-kids-website-pays-%a36-for-every-visitor-2008071850412/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Department for Children, Schools and Families spent almost &#163;60,000 developing a temporary website which has had less than 10,000 visitors since it was created and which is due to close next month.

The site - called "Build your...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>DARPA plans soldier-tagging system for US troops</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/darpa-plans-soldier%7etagging-system-for-us-troops-2008071850423/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[DARPA, the Pentagon boffinry outfit which bestrides the tech world like some mighty, erratic robot colossus with a frikkin laser beam on its head, has made a new move. The plan is to electronically tag US combat soldiers in a similar fashion to...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Crooks charge premium for filter-evading Trojan</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/viruses_malware/crooks-charge-premium-for-filter%7eevading-trojan-2008071850411/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Cybercrooks have released a custom-built Trojan, dubbed Limbo 2, "guaranteed" by its shady creators to continually evade the top ten anti-virus products on the market.

The Limbo 2 Trojan is touted as being able to bypass products from...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>MoD: We lost 87 classified USB sticks since 2003</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/mod%3a-we-lost-87-classified-usb-sticks-since-2003-2008071850413/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The UK Ministry of Defence has told parliament that it has lost or had stolen some 87 USB sticks holding "protectively marked" - ie classified - material since 2003. However, almost all the devices were marked at the lowest grade of classification,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Justice Ministry opens ICO consultation</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/justice-ministry-opens-ico-consultation-2008071850414/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Justice has published a consultation on changes to the powers and funding of the Information Commissioner's Office - a core conclusion of the Data Sharing Review was that the ICO needed more money and more powers to be...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Prime Minister's email takes month off</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/prime-minister%27s-email-takes-month-off-2008071850415/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[British citizens wishing to write to Prime Minister Gordon Brown via email are currently being told that the service is down due to maintenance work.

Number 10&#8217;s website is currently carrying ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>US sees first airliner flight with laser defences</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trials of laser missile-dazzler defences on airliners have passed another milestone, with armaments maker BAE Systems announcing that its "JetEye" gear has made its first scheduled passenger flight. The...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Whitehall orders green paint for IT dept</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Whitehall has set out its plan for slashing the carbon footprint of its computer systems, and will send someone round to turn off all its PCs as early as this evening.

A report released today, under the hideous title Greening Government...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>UK gov announces Road Pricing 2.0 - Managed Motorway</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/uk-gov-announces-road-pricing-2.0-%7e-managed-motorway-2008071750424/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The UK government has announced its plans for the national road network in coming years, assigning funding for a variety of different projects. Transport Minister Ruth Kelly has also published plans for a future of "managed motorways", which will...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>HMRC disc losers still getting paid</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/hmrc-disc-losers-still-getting-paid-2008071650418/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The payouts received by the civil servants who took the blame for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs losing the child benefit database have been revealed.

Paul Gray departed from his job in November 2007 as the the child benefit database loss...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>ETS apologises for online marking blunders ? again</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/ets-apologises-for-online-marking-blunders-?-again-2008071650425/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ETS Europe, the school exam contractor, has been slammed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) following revelations of marking delays brought on in part by technical cock-ups at the firm.

QCA boss Ken Boston, speaking on the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>AOL spammer jailed for 30 months</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/spam/aol-spammer-jailed-for-30-months-2008071650410/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A New Yorker was jailed for 30 months on Tuesday after being convicted for spamming 1.2 million AOL members with junk mail.

Adam Vitale, 27 and of Brooklyn, was also ordered to pay $180,000 to AOL in restitution for bombarding subscribers to...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Government halts work on Scope intelligence network</title>
            <link>http://www.secumania.org/news/government/government-halts-work-on-scope-intelligence-network-2008071650426/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Ministers have frozen the development of the Scope project, a secure computer network providing key officials with speedy access to secret intelligence on terrorism and other threats.

The government has refused to disclose the cost of Scope,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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