David Lohr reports: It has been nearly 15 years since the arrest of Ted Kaczynski, aka the “Unabomber,” and yet his ability to terrorize the public persists. Now, survivors of his mail-bomb attacks and victims’ families are haunted by the fear that the Harvard-educated mathematician might upload 40,000 pages of his writings and other documents…
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Bump.com: “Like putting a cookie on a car”
Tom Simonite reports: Next time you’re stuck in traffic, take a look at the license plates on the cars around you. To a user of bump.com–which launches today–each one is like an email address that can be used to contact the owner, whether to tell them a rear light is out or that you like their…
A New Zealand MP is apparently an ID thief
Martin Kay, Ian Steward and Tracy Watkins report on a political scandal in New Zealand involving ACT MP David Garrett. Among the other concerns about his past, it turns out the MP is an identity thief, having used the identity of a dead baby to get a passport. He claims that he was inspired by…
UK: Bin spies, yet again
Alex Deane writes: Just what is it with bureaucrats? They simply can’t stay out of dustbins! In the aftermath of our research, which showed that some 2.6 million households up and down the country had microchips installed in their dustbins (and none of them had been asked), the new Government banned “pay as you throw” schemes….