The Register - Security: IDBiting the hand that feeds ITImmigrant ID cards and border checks slip towards 2009- January 14, 2008 Byrne's 'challenging targets' challenge belief Immigration minister Liam Byrne has concealed what looks like further ID card slippage and set himself a remarkably unchallenging series of immigration and border control targets in a "ten point plan" for 2008. Humorously described by the Home Office as "challenging", the plan consists largely of low targets, targets already achieved, and harder targets lobbed off into the middle distance.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/14/immigrant_id_slippage/ Tag-a-lag: Chip implants mooted for UK prisoners- January 14, 2008 Wishful thinking to solve prison crisis, apparently... The Ministry of Justice is planning to solve the crisis in the UK prison system by fitting prisoners with surgically implanted tracking chips, claims the Independent on Sunday, citing a senior Ministry official. The chips, claims the paper, would be used to keep order in prison and to enforce home curfews.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/14/prisoner_chipping_scheme/ Confidential details fall off the back of lorries- January 14, 2008 Brace of breaches A box containing the banking details of 200 rich investors was found by the side of the road after apparently falling off the back of a courier's van.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/14/document_breach_brace/ LA grand jury probes MySpace teenage suicide case- January 10, 2008 Fake user said: 'World would be a better place without you' A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has subpoenaed MySpace and others in connection with a teenage girl who hanged herself after receiving cruel messages on the site from people posing as a 16-year-old boy.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/10/myspace_subpoenaed_followi... FTC issues ad-tracking guidelines- January 10, 2008 Let 'em know they're being watched US consumer protection body the Federal Trade Commission has backed a tightening of rules on internet advertising and the use of personal information. It has proposed stronger industry regulation of the tracking of users' habits.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/10/ftc_ad_track_guidelines/ Xbox Live account takeovers put users at risk- January 9, 2008 Celebrity gamer wants his virtual armor back Hackers have hijacked the Xbox Live account of a celebrity gamer and made off with a prized piece of virtual armor in a brazen act that suggests the online Microsoft service still puts the security of its users at risk.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/09/xbox_live_account_takeover... Is it or isn't it Brown keeps bottling the ID card question- January 9, 2008 Straight answers not compulsory either For the third time in four days, Gordon Brown has sown doubts about the future of compulsory ID cards for UK citizens. Speaking at prime minister's question time today, Brown confirmed that it was "policy" for ID cards to become compulsory, but added the rider that this was subject to a vote in parliament.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/09/brown_flubs_idcard_qs/ German hackers fight electronic voting- January 8, 2008 It'll end in tears, warns Chaos Veteran German hacking group the Chaos Computer Club is fighting the use of electronic voting machines in upcoming local elections.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/08/german_hackers_oppose_e_vo... |