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London Riots: BlackBerry Messenger Used More than Facebook or Twitter - 4 views

  • iOS or Android smartphones
  • police and media attention was drawn to a particular post on the Facebook page
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      How come the police could access all this information and not what was on BBM?
  • tweet from rioters describing their deeds and where they were headed next. Some posted pictures of looting and burning police cars
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  • got its hands on BBM messages directing rioters
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      How did a newspaper manage to do what the police and government couldn't?
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BBC News - Cyber criminals find new targets on unsuspecting sites - 0 views

  • The proportion of websites secretly harbouring malware has reached one in 3,000 according to security firm Kaspersky. It found a surge in the number of web-based attacks in 2010, with more than 580 million incidents detected.
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BBC News - Military fact file: Drones - 3 views

  • These strange-looking planes carry a wealth of sensors in their bulbous noses: colour and black-and-white TV cameras, image intensifiers, radar, infra-red imaging for low-light conditions and lasers for targeting. They can also be armed with laser-guided missiles.
  • Each multi-million dollar Predator or Reaper system comprises four aircraft, a ground control station and a satellite link.
  • Although drones are unmanned, they are not unpiloted - trained crew at base steer the craft, analyse the images which the cameras send back and act on what they see
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