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Photos from the frontline: AusCERT 2010

Summary: At AusCERT 2010 this week, speakers waxed lyrical on security, talking about everything from cybercriminals purchasing BMWs to the age of Cybergeddon.

Munir Kotadia

By Munir Kotadia |

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(Credit: Munir Kotadia/ZDNet Australia)

Ranum pointed out that in Iran, "when the government stole the election", US officials "were encouraging Twitter to stay online to help ferment rebellion in Iran". The Iranian Government arrested people for distributing US anti-censorship software, which Ranum said was likely Tor, PGP or "something else that came from a US research lab".

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Topic: Security

Munir Kotadia

About Munir Kotadia

Munir first became involved with online publishing in 1998 when he joined ZDNet UK and later moved into print publishing as Chief Reporter for IT Week, part of ZDNet UK, a weekly trade newspaper targeted at Enterprise IT managers. He later moved back into online publishing as Senior News Reporter for ZDNet UK.

Munir was recognised as Australia's Best Technology Columnist at the 5th Annual Sun Microsystems IT Journalism Awards 2007. In the previous year he was named Best News Journalist at the Consensus IT Writers Awards.

He no longer uses his Commodore 64.

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