Cybercrime Treaty to Be Signed

texchanchan writes: "Yahoo reports that "Interior ministers and law enforcement officials from Europe, South Africa, Canada, the United States and Japan will sign the milestone cyber-crime convention.... [because] computer criminals... have moved on from ``innocent'' hacking to fraud, embezzlement and life-threatening felonies."" Feel the spin in that article, from the anonymous "official". We've posted about this treaty before; read the final draft and note it well, particularly the extradition provisions, mutual assistance (some other country gets your country to tap your phones, and send them the data) and the requirements to disclose passwords.

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Dear Slashdot

[Exmet Paff Daxx]

Attention! Now that this treaty has been signed into law, keep in mind that it is very important that you never forget your passwords. If you forget your password, and it is required for a terrorist investigation, you can be arrested for failure to disclose your password. Please be extremely careful with all your passwords, never EVER forget them.

Specfically:
- If you have Alzheimers, do not use any computer system that requires a password.
- If you write software, make sure that any time you ask a user to create a password, you inform them that they could be imprisoned for life in a foreign country if they forget it.
- If you have to remember multiple passwords, repeat them to yourself 100 times every night, before you go to sleep.

Please follow these tips to keep everyone safe & free from terrorism!

Re:Landing Lights

[AndroidCat]

The whole airport local net was probably accessable from the Internet. *shudder* Landing lights were probably the least damaging thing that could have been done to it!

It'll get worse with the net-capable appliances of the future -- Shutdown all fridges in Boston every Friday the 13th, Code Red for toasters, etc. (Just kidding, I hope!)

Star Wars (EpIV for you damned kids) should have warned them: An unauthorized R2 unit at a docking bay data port shut down all the garbage mashers on the Detention Level... Bad network security on something the size of a small moon!

I guess I'd better not ever try out my prank of taking a highish power IR laser, modulating it with the on/full volume/play codes for most TVs, stereos, VCRs, DVDs -- and then painting a few nearby apartment buildings with it at 3am...