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Google streetview catches robbers

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

In September 2008 a 14 year old boy had been robbed in a street in the Dutch city of Groningen.

After he pressed charges, the police could not find the two responsible for the robbery.Until a few months ago, when the boy found himself and his robbers on google streetview.

Robbers of the 14 year old boy

He then notified the police who after identification arrested the two.

Personally, I am not a proponent of Google streetview because of the privacy issues but in this case it was good to have them at the right place at the right time.

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Twitter used for recruiting Hacktivists

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Some interesting developments on Twitter. Due to the disorder caused by the recent Iranian elections someone has decided to widen the scope of the disorder to the internet. He has asked people on twitter to help him DDoS Iranian government websites. As he stated in his Tweet, he ( and probably some others) successfully took down one website already.

But other Tweets show people don’t want this to happen. Because Iran’s Internet infrastructure is not as state-of-the-art like most western countries it could be possible the  internet of Iran saturates and they have no internet at all!

It’s kind of disturbing to see how easy it is to get people motivated on twitter, for the cause of good or the bad.

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IT Audit

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Next month a security audit is performed onto our infrastructure.
Unfortunately, a lot has to be done before I am satisfied and thus before I expect the audit to be a success…
But one thing I am sure of; since I have put all this work in the results will be more positively than last time :-)

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