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It was a hard decision for the BBC’s subed for England / Kent. Should we go with the scared hairdresser or the wriggling child? See for yourself:

‘Child escaped’ in £53m cash raid

A hairdresser child held captive in Britain’s biggest cash raid was “too scared” small enough to name four men she disguised, the £53m Securitas heist jury hears.wriggle through a cage, jurors hear.

On 19 June in the early morning hours a certain Gabriel aka "go harry" sent an email to seclists.org (a hacker mailing list), allegedly disclosing the ending of the yet to be published next sequel of Harry Potter.¹ He claims to have got acces to several computers at publisher Bloomsbury ("It's amazing to see how much people inside the company have copies and drafts of this book.") and briefly outlines the plot. "We make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring." Gabriel calls it the "Harry Potter 0day" (zero-day-exploit).

Fellow hackers don't seem to be impressed too much. Scott writes: "Who are you people and why should I care? Maybe a new exploit would be more useful."

But there is a good chance, that this whole story is a hoax …

1. http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jun/0380.html [↩]

The Register carries a story on the success of UK Newspapers and their online editions … readers stay faithful to their paper. And online content attracts up to 20 % extra audience … who are, however, not buying the paper (or any paper, for that matter).

Read the whole story here: Newspapers not killed by net - shock!