One in 10 is a Wi-Fi piggybacker

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:44:52 GMT

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Some 12 per cent of UK and US users think nothing of piggybacking on unsecured Wi-Fi networks

18 to 34 group are the most likely offenders with almost a third admitting to 'borrowing' Wi-Fi access.

The study also found that nearly half of respondents repeat their passwords online, while only one in four have ever encrypted a file on their PCs.

According to the researchers the findings indicate that users are underestimating the growing threat from cyber-criminals, who can easily gain access to multiple accounts once they successfully break into one account.

UK users are less likely to write down their passwords than their US counterparts. Nearly half of US respondents admitted to scribbling down their password, a practice denied by 70 per cent of UK respondents.

Fat corpses endangering morgue staff

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:20:28 GMT

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PATHOLOGISTS say that almost 30 per cent of the bodies they perform autopsies on are now obese, placing the industry under heavy strain.

South Australian forensic pathologist Prof Roger Byard said mortuary staff risked serious back injury trying to manoeuvre large bodies.

Dissections were difficult due to layers of fat and were sometimes not possible on standard trolleys or tables, Prof Byard wrote in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

"Autopsies have been performed on floors, or with a pathologist leaning from a ladder, or actually standing on the trolley over a body," said Prof Byard, who is calling for new specialist equipment.

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