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In this Issue:

• Featured Site - The Last Link
• Shanzhai fake mobile shopping trip
• CA antivirus trashing Windows system files
• Fake email easily detected
• Jail for cyber criminals: NSW Govt
• Quotes of the Day

Featured Site  

The last Link

A New publication from New Zealand. The Last Link by Joanna Beresford. "Based on a true story of pioneering in South Pacific skies"

Overview

It is 1927, and great advances are being made in aviation around the globe. George Hood knows his talent for flying is languishing away in his rural New Zealand hometown Masterton. When Air Force Territorial John ‘Scotty’ Moncrieff announces his intention to buy a plane and be the first to fly over the Tasman, George is determined to co-pilot on the trip. The two men refuse to let the many obstacles that stand in their way deter them.

George’s wife Cissie is equally intent on not losing her second husband to a mission that can best be described as fool hardy, and at worst suicidal. It is his fault she has been uprooted from her life in London to come and live in the Wairarapa.

Her insecurities ignite with the constant presence of George’s first love Doris, who is kind, gentle, and strikingly beautiful, everything Cissie feels she is not.

Although George does his best to placate his wife, his stubbornness about flying and knack for attracting admiration from many quarters threatens their tumultuous existence.

Cissie must concede defeat and let go of her husband as he leaves for Australia with a small crew to prepare to make their dangerous journey. Success will bring fame and prestige to the dominion.

Failure cannot be considered. Visit The Last Link website...

A great read. ed

Shanzhai fake mobile shopping trip  

Zhu Chenghao takes a drag on his cigarette as he pulls out his latest top-selling phone — the iPhone mini. He may be less charismatic than Steve Jobs but is every bit as keen to show those all too familiar features from a full-size iPhone: the touchscreen, integrated media playback, games, colourful icons and stylish curved finish.

Click here for our full gallery of Shanzhai counterfeit mobile phones. Proudly sponsored by President Obama and his Windows Mobile BlockBerry.

But as the Apple CEO would say, "that's not all". The iPhone mini includes features Apple is yet to announce in its smartphone: an FM radio player, dual-SIM card support, Java, external storage via miniSD and video recording, to name just a few.

"Shanzhai," Zhu says with enthusiasm as he shows off the shake-to-shuffle feature.

Welcome to a Shanzhai tech market in Shanghai, China. Shanzhai is the Chinese term used inside the middle kingdom for counterfeit or copied goods. The direct translation of Shanzhai (山寨) is "mountain village" and is used to refer to the small, low-quality factories in southern China. It's a blanket term for a range of counterfeit goods ranging from designer bags and clothing to tech gadgets, cars (even Formula One race cars) and helicopters. ZDNet Australia July 2009. more >>>

CA antivirus trashing Windows system files  

I tipster just pointed me to the CA support forums where there’s a lot of chatter about CA Anti-Virus misidentifying key Windows system files as malware.

The problem mainly affects Windows XP SP3, but users of other versions of Windows are also claiming to see the problem.

Following the quarantining of the files users will be faced by a dialog box warning them that system files have been changed and that it may make the system unstable.

ZDNet Australian July 2009. more >>>

Fake email easily detected  

THE email at the heart of the Utegate scandal would have been found easily by the Australian Federal Police and could have been fabricated in a number of ways, according to a computer forensics expert.

Proof that an email sent by Treasury official Godwin Grech was false overwhelmed the Coalition's demands that Kevin Rudd resign because he allegedly sought favours for John Grant, a Queensland car dealer who was the Prime Minister's friend, neighbour and political donor. Malcolm Turnbull's demands were based on the leaked email and Mr Godwin's testimony to a Senate inquiry, but the Opposition Leader's leadership, personal judgment and credibility have been damaged since the police found the key piece of email evidence was a fraud.

Computer forensics firm Schatz Forensic managing director Bradley Schatz said the AFP would have easily located the email allegedly sent by Mr Grech.

"It's just a matter of going to the computer of that particular person and opening it up and using some special tools to find what's in that person's email outbox," Dr Schatz said.

Police could have used special forensic tools to locate an email or computer data that had been deleted, he said. AustraliaIT July 2009. more >>>

Jail for cyber criminals: NSW Govt  

CYBER criminals who use Facebook to get personal information about their potential victims will face up to five years in jail.

Under proposed laws targeting the use of social networking sites for identity theft, police for the first time will be able to arrest and charge online fraudsters for improperly accessing or using information without having to wait for them to steal money.

The move, to be announced by NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos today, is an effort to ensure the law keeps pace with new technology that is being embraced by young people and exploited by criminals.

"Identity thieves who use emerging technology to perpetrate fraud are responsible for a crime wave that is costing Australians approximately $1 billion a year,'' he said. The proposed offences, which will be released for public consultation, would make it a crime to use or trade any information that identified a person, such as their name or address, driver's licence number, PIN or password for the purpose of committing a secondary offence.

It would also be an offence to use devices such as printers and laminators to produce fake identity documents to commit crimes. AustraliaIT July 2009. more >>>

Quotes of the Day  

He who hesitates is a damned fool. Mae West (1892 - 1980)

It is bad luck to be superstitious. Andrew W. Mathis

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. Bernard Bailey

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. Tom Masson

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