All cellphone SIM cards will have to be registered in terms of legislation coming into effect in Zambia on Wednesday. The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Amendment Act (Rica) [pdf] aims to help law enforcement agencies investigate and combat serious crime, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said on Tuesday. It would…
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ID cards ‘will never be compulsory’ for Britons
Alan Johnson signalled a major retreat by the Government on identity cards when he ruled out ever making them compulsory for UK citizens. The Home Secretary also abandoned plans for a pilot project at two airports which would have required some staff and pilots to carry the cards. The schemes for new workers wishing to…
Hotmail hack exposed Sanford’s affair
Emails from the Argentine mistress of married South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford were leaked to the press by a hacker, according to the Latin American siren at the centre of a political scandal in the US Deep South. The emails were obtained by South Carolina newspaper The State back in December but kept on ice…
Pirate Bay sold
Back in April, I read that the file-sharing site Pirate Bay crew had launched a for-fee VPN service, iPREDator, to enhance online anonymity. The Pirate Bay team, having been sentenced for copyright infringement and facing jail time and a fine of $3.6 million, forged ahead anyway and next I read an announcement of a “beta…