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The co-leader of one of the oldest and most famous Internet software cracking and warez trading groups was sentenced today to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, US authorities announced today.

Computers that can detect unattended packages in crowded places will soon become a tool to increase security against threats from terrorist attacks, according to a group of Australian scientists [Sijun Lu, Jian Zhang and David Dagan Feng, 2006].

Vatican expressed its displeasure at a photograph of the Pope with the caption “scared…” published in an Australian news site [ news.com.au] and forced the editors to change the word to “sacred”.

The editor of a student magazine became the subject of an investigation under federal anti-terror law after being denounced on an “anti-terrorist” hotline, Reporters sans frontières (RSF - Reporters Without Borders) reported.

“This was an example of unfortunate use of Australia’s illiberal laws,” the press freedom organisation said, calling for law reform to avoid any future mistakes that could threaten fundamental freedoms.

Jess Moore, 24, who runs the student monthly Tertangala (Smoke Signal) in the coastal town of Wollongong in south-eastern Australia was suspected of attending a meeting in support of Islamist movement Hamas on 18 October 2006. In Australia, Hamas and the Lebanese-based Hizbollah are seen as terrorist organisations and all support for them is punishable under anti-terror laws.