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...According to the Aug. 17 indictment, Gonzalez teamed up with two Russian programmers to hack into corporate computer networks and install "malware," or malicious software, that allowed them to steal data...
...hold as lawmakers quibble about the details. But it's not just a lack of buildings that is the problem. Says Krisberg: "Without programs and without services, the tensions that exist to begin with are going to be greatly exacerbated. The elected officials of California have been playing Russian roulette with the lives of the guards and the inmates in these prisons." (Read about California's growing prison crisis...
...July 24, the Maltese-flagged Arctic Sea reported that it had been boarded by gunmen posing as law-enforcement officers off the coast of Sweden and that its 15 Russian crew members had been tied up and beaten. Four days later, the ship - which was carrying a load of timber from Finland worth $1.84 million - sailed into the English Channel, where it made routine communications with British maritime authorities, who at the time were unaware of the hijacking. About 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Britain, the ship then slipped off the radar...
...Five Russian naval vessels - reported to include nuclear submarines - have been dispatched to search for the Arctic Sea. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev instructed the country's Defense Minister, Anatoly Serduykov, to "take all necessary measures to locate, monitor and, if necessary, to free the missing vessel," a Defense Ministry statement said. Finnish police have said they are also helping with the search. (Read "Medvedev and Obama: Sunshine in Moscow...
...suspicions and theories are all there is, until the rescue vessels find the missing ship - if they ever do. Maritime expert Burnett says international law would normally require that the Russian navy receive permission from Maltese authorities to board the Arctic Sea, but a specific piracy exemption in the U.N.'s Law of the Sea Convention allows any country to board a ship it suspects has fallen under the control of pirates. (See pictures of the face of modern piracy...