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Dutch Court Rules WiFi Hacking Is Now Legal

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March 19, 2011
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Dutch Court Rules WiFi Hacking Is Now Legal Breaking in to an encrypted router and using the WiFi connection is not an criminal offence, a Dutch court ruled.
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Microsoft Urges Office Users to Block Flash Player Attacks Microsoft Thursday urged users of older Office suites to install and run a complicated tool to protect themselves against ongoing attacks exploiting an unpatched bug in Adobe's Flash Player.
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Verisign Signs On for Upcoming 24-hour IPv6 Trial Verisign is the latest major Internet player to sign up for World IPv6 Day
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Can Your Browser Really Stop Sites from Tracking Your Web Browsing? The latest versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer support a standard designed to stop the kind of tracking that spawns targeted ads. Whether itll work, though, is unclear.
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ICANN Approves .xxx Top-level Domain The adult entertainment industry now has a home on the Internet: It's called .xxx.
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AT&T, Where's the Pooled Data Plan with Rollover Megabytes? AT&T should stop treating every device separately and offer a pooled data plan that shares megabytes across them all.
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Can RIM's Cloud Push Recapture BlackBerry Magic? RIM says it is going big into the cloud with its Microsoft alliance. What kind of boost will this give BlackBerry?
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HTC Thunderbolt Rooted as Fast as Lightning HTC's new Thunderbolt smartphone has already been rooted, even though it's been on sale for less than a day. We apologize for the bad pun in the headline.
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Display Tech to Watch This Year: Haptics Create A Buzz Haptic feedback could redefine the touch-screen experience, mimicking movement, textures and more.
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BlackBerry Office 365 Is Win-Win for IT Admins RIM announced plans for BlackBerry Office 365--a free hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server service integrated with Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365.
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Why Amazon Should Sell a Tablet Amazon will unveil a multipurpose tablet of its own--the only question is when.
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