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24th February 2006

Things you don’t want Google to find

“”Hacking Google’ isn’t exactly new. That is, using the search engine to look for confidential information. But as McAfee’s senior vice president for Risk Management George Kurtz demonstrated today at RSA conference, that didn’t prevent users and organisations to post those goodies online for anyone to find. ‘You almost get bored finding all these password files. It used to be fun in the old days when you found a password file. Now you just go to Google and find thousands of them,’ Kurtz said.”

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24th February 2006

Schizophrenia, Aging and Art

“Schizophrenia has such a wide and varying range of symptoms that it is often considered more of a conglomerate of symptoms than a distinctly identifiable disorder. Even the symptoms themselves can be broken down into two main groupings: Negative and Positive symptoms.”

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24th February 2006

“Reimagining” the Wall Street Journal

“St. Pete Times media critic Eric Deggans has a feature in today’s paper on Mario Garcia and his ‘reimagining’ of the Wall Street Journal, which will launch a redesigned and narrower paper next year.”

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