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Category Archives: Security

How websites can find out which other sites you visit

19-Feb-10

When a web browser renders a page that includes hyperlinks to other pages, one of two different colours is normally used for each link, depending on whether you already have visited the page to which the link points. To make this feature work, the browser needs a history file, in other words a list [...]

Investigation commission wants to ban auto-loading guns despite police dissent

17-Feb-10

On 23 September 2008, a student entered the local polytechnic in Kauhajoki, Finland and shot nine students, a teacher and himself using a .22 calibre semi-automatic pistol. An investigation commission of eight members was appointed to look into the incident. The commission’s report is now public.