Snapped and spammed into submission.Criminals beware. The authorities have a new crime fighting Crime Fighting See also Sleuthing. Batman devotes his life to fighting Gotham City’s criminals. [Comics: Berger, 160] Canadian Mounties tool: Mobile phones. In Italy, two thieves were caught and sentenced to six months in the slammer A worm that caused a billion dollars worth of damage on the Internet on January 25, 2003. Slammer infected computers all over the Internet by generating random IP addresses and causing the computer's buffer to overflow with its own instructions that replicate itself and start the process thanks to an observant ob·ser·vant adj. 1. Quick to perceive or apprehend; alert: an observant traveler. See Synonyms at careful. 2. citizen with a camera phone. The phone-toting man thought two characters loitering Loitering (IPA pronunciation: ['lɔɪtəˌrɪŋ] is an intransitive verb meaning to stand idly, to stop numerous times, or to delay and procrastinate. outside his shop looked shady, so he snapped their photo and mailed it to the local police. Sure enough, the men were wanted and the police were able to quickly pick them up. Buzz loves bite-back strategies. Authorities in China are using a computer program to spam illegal advertisers' mobile phones until they turn themselves in. It's common, although unlawful, practice in China to paper walls and sidewalks with bumper-sticker-sized ads. When an ad lists a mobile phone number, the police go work, ringing the number at 2B-second intervals, rendering not only the phone useless, but also the ad since potential customers can't get through. |
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