If you want to learn the current state of Title Fraud, Title Insurance, and our land registry system, then you should read Title fraud and title insurance in Ontario: impact of recent changes by Bruce McKenna at Lang Michener LLP.
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Two years after Seagate announced the world’s most secure hard drive, the 2.5 inch Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (full disk encryption) hard drive will go on sale at the end of March in a laptop from ASI Computer Technologies. The on-the-fly encryption is integrated into the drive.
In the R v Waters [2007], the UK Court of Appeal upheld the sentence of four months imprisonment for a man who had conspired to install spyware software on his wife’s computer. The Court of Appeal ruling stated:
Computers are an established part of modern life. An increasing amount of personal and private information is kept on computers, not only by the State and large organisations but also by individuals. The privacy of that information must be protected and it is vulnerable to the kind of unauthorised interference and intrusion that occurred in this case. The judge correctly identified deterrence as an element of sentencing in this case. In our judgment, a sentence of imprisonment for offences such as this was not wrong in principle.
For 18 tense months, a computer-savvy grifter named David Thomas runs a thriving online crime hub for bank heists, identity theft and counterfeiting, with the FBI paying the bills. Part one of a three-part series by Kim Zetter.
This is an excellent look into how Internet savy crooks go about their business.