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Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm

Posted by Unknown on from the but-we-were-friends dept.

New submitter andrew3 writes "Skype has allegedly handed the information of a 16-year-old boy to a security firm. The information was later handed over to Dutch law enforcement. No court order was served for the disclosure. The teenager was suspected of being part of a DDoS packet flood as a part of the Anonymous 'Operation Payback'." According to the article, Skype voluntarily disclosed the information to the third party firm without any kind of police order, possibly violating a few privacy laws and their own policies.

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  1. Apostromania by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Skype Hand's Teenager's Information To Private Firm.

    I see.

    The information of the teenager of the hand belonging to Skype is to deprive a firm of something.
    Yep. Makes sense.

  2. Re:Greengrocers apostrophe? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's greengrocers' apostrophe, dumbass.

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  3. Re:Greengrocers apostrophe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why do have so many people problems accepting there are non-native English speakers? It's not difficult.

    Why do so many non-native English speakers who write broken English are surprised and annoyed when people make them notice their errors ? Learn from your errors.

  4. no problems by LateLurker · · Score: 3, Funny

    it's OK, we'll just use facetime.

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  5. Re:Greengrocers apostrophe? by LittleLui · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly. The apo'strophe warn's the reader that the next letter i's an 's, right?

  6. Re:Skype hand's? by martin-boundary · · Score: 3, Funny

    S'lashdot editors, have you no shame?

    FTFY's

  7. Re:Greengrocers apostrophe? by marcello_dl · · Score: 1, Funny

    You read headlines and summaries? You must be new here.

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  8. Re:Greengrocers apostrophe? by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rule 1 - Use the apostrophe with contractions.

    I tried this with my wife during labor. She was in agony and I kept yelling "Honey, use the apostrophe!!"
    She was not amused.

  9. Re:The headline is misleading. by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want to know why "Hand's" is apostrophized.

    Punctuation is like seasoning! Adding more improves the flavour!

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