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Last month the Permanent Court of Arbitration rejected Australia’s claim it had no jurisdiction to conciliate the dispute in the Timor Sea. This means Australia must come to the table and negotiate with East Timor. But Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has been quick to note that Australia will not be bound by the international panel’s outcome. At the end of …
Image copyright Wikimedia/ISasha Image caption Most Russian samovars do not come with hidden recording devices, allowing users to enjoy their hot drinks with a clear conscience Russia’s security service arrested three senior officials after recording conversations using a bug hidden in a samovar they had given as a gift of thanks for anti-corruption efforts, it’s emerged. According to the influential …
Prime Minister John Key says he too has been bugged, but won’t go into specifics about how often that has happened, where it occurred and who might have been responsible. His comments come as police in Sydney investigate the discovery of a listening device in a hotel meeting room used by the All Blacks. Mr Key said it had happened …
Federal agents planted hidden microphones and conducted secret video surveillance at Alameda County’s Rene C. Davidson Courthouse for ten months, despite having no court warrant. The surveillance operation was part of an investigation into alleged bid rigging at foreclosed property auctions where thousands of houses and apartment buildings were sold by banks. But defense attorneys for some of the individuals …
There’s white, and then there’s the immaculate ultrawhite behind the French doors of a new GE Café Series refrigerator. There’s white, and then there’s the luminous-from-every-angle white hood of a 50th anniversary Ford Mustang GT. There’s white, and then there’s the how-white-my-shirts-can-be white that’s used to brighten myriad products, from the pages of new Bibles to the hulls of superyachts …
Cape Town – Four former officials at SARS caught up in a row over allegations of a spy unit have distanced themselves from another ”leaked” KPMG report. In a statement released on Saturday they said none of them were given a chance to make representations on allegations against them supposedly contained in the new report. The statement was from former SA …
The Garda Ombudsman’s office has been sniffing through journalists’ contacts in a probe that lacks teeth. Scrutiny: Phone records of up to 50 individuals may also have featured in an investigation of alleged leaks around the arrest of Independent TD Clare Daly. The disturbing revelations that the Garda Ombudsman Commission has been snooping on journalists’ phone records confirms the watchdog’s …
U.S. firms are making billions selling spyware to dictators. Ricardo Martinelli resides in a condo at the Atlantis, a luxury high-rise on Florida’s Biscayne Bay made famous by the TV series Miami Vice. A hefty, white-haired billionaire, Martinelli, 63, was viewed just a few years ago as one of Latin America’s most popular leaders: From 2009 until 2014, he was …
The popular expert John McAfee claims passengers with four Chinese airlines are spied with the IMSI-catchers technology by the Government of Beijing. The former owner of McAfee security firm, John McAfee was always known to have made some controversial comments in the IT industry, but also to have good sources that let him get precious information at first hand. This …
“Gadgets that make it possible to spy on spouses, children, clients and bosses are more popular than ever. Few realize it is rarely legal to do so.” Mathieu Delahousse, Boris Manenti (2015-09-17) PARIS – There was a verbal altercation, a dozen stab wounds, blood and shouts. The scene happened in a parking lot in northern France earlier this year. The …