PGP, Digifeiters, Broadband Balloons & the Phoenix Program

Italian police have seized at least two Psion PDAs from members of the Red Brigades terrorist organisation. But the major investigative breakthrough they were hoping for as a result of the information contained on the devices has failed to materialise — thwarted by PGP encryption software used by the left-wing revolutionaries.

Thanks to the availability of low cost high quality inkjet printers, crooks are now able to produce currency indistinguishable from the real banknotes, at least under dim lighting conditions like that in a bar or a nightclub.

SkyLinc are floating balloons connected to a fibre optic pole which, they say, can deliver broadband access at more than double the speed of most broadband services currently available. Apparently only 18 balloons would be necessarily to blow BT out the water.

Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at 'neutralising' — through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture — the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying 'final solution' that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality.