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Australian Press Council makes its ruling. Source: Supplied

The Australian Press Council has considered a complaint about material in The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, on 26 November 2011.

Front-page headings, "OPEN THE FLOODGATES - Exclusive: Thousands of boat people to invade NSW", were followed by two paragraphs which commenced Thousands of boat people will be released into Sydney's suburbs as the government empties detention centres.

Readers were then directed to articles running across two inside pages with one headline reading "Open the floodgates" and another reading "Detainee deluge for Sydney".

Anna Krjatian complained that the word invade was inaccurate, unfair and offensive because it portrayed asylum seekers and refugees as a threat to public and personal safety.

She also said that the words "open the floodgates" were inaccurate, especially as the number of asylum seekers could not conceivably reach levels which would justify such an extreme term and they would be only a very small proportion of all new immigrants each year.

The newspaper responded that the use of the terms such as open the floodgates and deluge were not inaccurate or unfair, especially as details about likely numbers of asylum seekers being released into the community were provided in the articles and readers could decide for themselves whether the words were appropriate.

It said the State Governments briefing note feared that government services would be swamped and unable to cope with the sudden influx. It did not seek to defend use of the word invade.

The Press Council has concluded that use of the word invade was gravely inaccurate, unfair and offensive because of its clear connotations of forceful occupation. According the complaint is upheld on this ground for what the Council regards as an especially serious breach of its principles.

The Council has concluded that use of the words open the floodgates and deluge were inaccurate and unfair.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software for computer forensics, law enforcement organizations, government agencies, and private investigators, announces Passware Kit Forensic v11.7, which includes live memory analysis and subsequent decryption of MS Word or Excel 2007-2010 files. In addition, the new version instantly decrypts PGP Whole Disk Encrypted volumes and recovers passwords for Apple disk images.

Passware Continues as a Pioneer -- Decrypting MS Office Documents

In 2005, Passware pioneered instant decryption of Office files by launching Decryptum - an online instant decryption service for MS Word and Excel files up to version 2003.

With the release of MS Office 2007, Microsoft changed its encryption algorithm to AES, which made instant calculation of an encryption key impossible. "Until now, there had been no solution available commercially to crack MS Office 2007-2010 encryption in predictable time. Brute-force attack was the only method available," said Dmitry Sumin, president, Passware, Inc. "With our focus on live memory analysis, which makes instant recovery of MS Office encryption keys and the ability to use them to decrypt the documents possible, we continue to pioneer decrypting MS Office documents."

The latest version of Passware Kit Forensic includes live memory acquisition over FireWire and subsequent recovery of a file's encryption key - regardless of the password length and complexity. This method works if the target MS Word/Excel file was open on a seized computer at the time of its memory acquisition, or when the computer last went into 'sleep' mode.

Other memory analysis options provided by Passware include decryption of BitLocker, TrueCrypt, PGP, and Mac FileVault 2 hard disk images, and recovery of Mac user login passwords.

Security Professionals Continue to Safeguard Sensitive Data

According to Per Thorsheim, organizer of the "Passwords^12" conference in Norway and founder of Security Nirvana blog, "With the addition of instant Microsoft Office password recovery to an already impressive range of features, Passware takes a big step in the evolution of forensic tools. Where we previously could not recover passwords from document files with strong encryption, Passware now offers a solution for instant Office file password recovery in many situations. For forensics work, this is without doubt a very useful feature, and is probably the only solution of its kind in the market today."

Moreover, while these new enhancements may draw concerns from IT security professionals who wonder what effective encryption methods remain, Thorsheim continues, "As security professionals, it is once again time for us all to update our threat analysis, where existing and new configuration options should be considered for safeguarding sensitive and secret information. This applies to both hardware as well as software options, and should be analyzed carefully."

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LONG BRANCH Theres no word yet on whether a body that washed up Saturday in Long Branch is that of a Paterson boy missing for a week.

But authorities are hoping an autopsy being performed this afternoon will help them identify the body, according to Christopher Gramiccioni, the first assistant prosecutor for Monmouth County. He said results may not be available until Monday.

The body may be that of 17-year-old Rudy Mena, a Paterson boy who vanished in the surf off Long Branch late last Sunday. Police believe the boy drowned, likely being pulled out by powerful rip currents.

A 24-year-old Jersey City man drowned off Bradley Beach on Tuesday when he became caught in rip currents, officials said last week. In a separate incident that occurred around the same time, four teenagers from Newark were also caught in the rip currents but made it back to shore. They were sent to a local hospital for observation.

The body found Saturday was pulled from the water by lifeguard near Pier Village, not far from where Mena disappeared, according to a report by the Asbury Park Press.

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She is 14 and from San Diego, Calif. The winning word was "guetapens."

Snigdha Nandipati heard a few words she didn't know during the National Spelling Bee, but never when she stepped to the microphone.

Calm and collected throughout, the 14-year-old from San Diego spelled "guetapens," a French-derived word that means ambush, snare or trap, to win the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. She beat out eight other finalists in the nerve-wracking, brain-busting competition.

After she spelled the word, she looked from side to side, as if unsure her accomplishment was real, and, oddly, she was not immediately announced as the winner. Applause built slowly, and a few pieces of confetti trickled out before showering her. Then her younger brother ran on stage and embraced her, and she beamed.

"I knew it. I'd seen it before," Nandipati said of the winning word. "I just wanted to ask everything I could before I started spelling."

A coin collector and Sherlock Holmes fan, Nandipati aspires to become a physician or neurosurgeon. She also plays violin and is fluent in Telugu, a language spoken in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

A semifinalist last year, Nandipati became the fifth consecutive Indian-American winner and 10th in the last 14 years, a run that began in 1999 when Nupur Lala won and was later featured in the documentary "Spellbound."

Her parents and younger brother embraced her onstage, along with her maternal grandparents, who traveled from Hyderabad, India, to watch her.

Stuti Mishra of West Melbourne, Fla., finished second after misspelling "schwarmerei" which means excessive, unbridled enthusiasm. While many spellers pretend to write words with their fingers, the 14-year-old Mishra had an unusual routine she mimed typing them on a keyboard. Nandipanti and Mishra frequently high-fived each other after spelling words correctly during the marathon competition.

Coming in third for the second consecutive year was Arvind Mahankali of Bayside Hills, N.Y. At 12, the seventh-grader was the youngest of the nine finalists, and he has one more year of eligibility remaining.

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Ted S. Warren

State Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield

Politicians often do funny stuff. In fact just the other day I was looking for a synonym for the word "politics." What did I come up with?

Shenanigans.

Goodness gracious, I love that word. I just don't often find an opportunity to use it.

Now when state Sen. Joe Zarelli decided not to run for re-election I wasn't thinking shenanigans. I was thinking "Oh, my."

But then as The Columbian slowly pieced the story together I was able to resurrect the word I'm growing to love.

Shenanigans.

You see after Joe decided not to run, he hatched a bit of plan. He would tell very few people that he wasn't running. What's the advantage of this? Well no Democrat in his right mind (sorry, Ralph Schmidt) would really think he had a chance against Republican Zarelli. So if Zarelli were to announce that he was out -- early -- more folks might jump in the race.

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