It's nice to have a change from all those Reg headlines that state "male hacker arrested". Oh wait, The Reg never does actually specify gender unless they think they can get a few extra clicks by printing the word "female". So when do the Reg and the Daily Mail finally complete their merger?
Scotland Yard arrests female computer hacking suspect
Scotland Yard officers arrested a 45-year-old woman this morning over alleged breaches of privacy. The unnamed suspect is being quizzed by Operation Tuleta officers at a South London cop shop while her home is searched. She was cuffed on suspicion of conspiring to commit offences under Sections 1 and 3 of the Computer Misuse …
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Thursday 8th November 2012 15:05 GMT Chris Tierney
Mistaken identity?
That's up there with headlines such as.
"Woman awarded OBE for her contribution to 'driving efficiently'"
"Husband finds out wife's credit card transactions were for 'very useful items'"
"Angela Merkel returns from Greek holiday to find Germany has left the Euro"
"Cops cuff woman for speeding in her tractor- she admits "trying to get home so her man wouldn't find the fridge was empty""
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Friday 9th November 2012 21:12 GMT Michael Dunn
Re: Nice of the police to take onboard this whole women in IT seriously
Yes, well, perhaps some of them remembered a certain Grace Hopper, who "cobolled" together a language that became for some time the universal computer language of commerce, and who had previously put together the first compiler, when scoffers had told her that computers could only do arithmetic.
Incidentally her ongoing work with the US Navy took her up to the rank of Rear Admiral, and I doubt there were many lady admirals anywhere in the world at that time.
Then, of course, there was also the lovely Ada.
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Thursday 8th November 2012 20:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
No offence intended, but isn't it much more likely she is really a "password guesser" which I suppose the press call "hacker", thing is, she could probably be replaced with a not-too complex script given some input of publicly available knowledge? probably cheaper to get her to do it though, couple of bowls of ready brek and a fag, no worries...
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