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• Changing Customers Password Without Consent
  risinganger writes "BBC News is reporting that a customer had his password changed without his knowledge. After some less than satisfactory service the customer in question changed his password to 'Llyods is pants'. At some point after that a member of staff changed the password to 'no it's not'. Requests to change it back to 'Llyods is pants', 'Barclays is better' or censorship were met with refusal. Personally I found the original change funny, like the customer did. After all, god forbid a sense of humour rears its ugly head in business. What isn't acceptable is the refusal to change it per the customer's requests after that."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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• Computer Virus Aboard the ISS
  chrb writes "BBC News is reporting that laptops taken to the International Space Station by NASA astronauts are infected with the Gammima.AG worm. The laptops have no net connection; officials suspect the worm may have been transferred via a USB flash drive owned by an astronaut. NASA have said this isn't the first time computer viruses had travelled into space."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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• Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay
  Walpurgiss tips a BBC News story about a man in Oxford who paid $140 for a computer on eBay, and was shocked to find on it bank records of several million customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland, its subsidiary Natwest, and one other bank. "Mr. Chapman said anyone with a basic knowledge of computer software would have been able to find the data fairly simply. 'The information was in back-up CDs and in ISO files so it would have been possibly quite easy to find...,' he said."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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• BBC says sorry for misleading footage of Chinese hurdler
  The BBC has apologised after it emerged that news bulletins used misleadingly edited footage of Chinese athlete Liu Xiang's withdrawal from the Olympics. By Owen Gibson
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• BBC in new fakery row over editing of Chinese Olympic athlete
  The BBC was drawn into a new fakery controversy yesterday - this time over the Olympics. Live coverage of Chinese athlete Liu Xiang was manipulated on this week's Ten o'Clock News.
  www.theherald.co.uk

Blog and News Digest

• Cairo rockslide search continues
  Rescuers in Cairo continue their search for survivors after a rockslide hit dozens of homes in Egypt's capital, killing at least 30 people.
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• Church obsessed with gays says Tutu
  Archbishop Desmond Tutu accuses Church of England of putting row about homosexuality before world poverty.
  news.bbc.co.uk
• US Open set to approve roof plan
  US Open organisers look set to approve plans to build a $100m roof over the Arthur Ashe Stadium.
  news.bbc.co.uk
• Magpies hit back at Keegan claims
  Newcastle issue a powerful response to the claim by Kevin Keegan that club interference provoked his resignation.
  news.bbc.co.uk
• BBC NEWS | UK | Data on 5,000 justice staff lost
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• BBC NEWS | Americas | Venezuela plans Russia navy visit
  
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• BBC NEWS | Polish agents tell of CIA jails
  Polish intelligence sources confirm for the first time that the CIA ran a secret facility on Polish soil...
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