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Report: Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Brazil
Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affected three million people in 2007.
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“If we don’t control it, file sharing will destroy the music business !!!” Then »»» Gut me with a spoon! This new technology blank tapes makes it easy for anyone to duplicate music taking money away from artists and companies who invest in artists!!! Soon there’ll be no new music … Then VCRs »»» Soon there’ll be no new movies … Same same for photocopiers in the 60s »»» Soon there’ll be no new books … CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes as a satirical take on the not-satirical Canadian copyright reform farce as the show explores the “historical struggle between technology and the content industry,” says a YouTube video posted by Michael Geist’s Fair Copyright For Canada . The 22 Minutes show was aired yesterday. Here’s the clip.
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