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It seems that all the advice you’ve heard about how to create secure passwords, may not be the best advice. The problem is technology. The same technology that gives us all these high tech services and devices is also used to create other devices to crack those passwords. It seems these devices can figure out passwords without a lot of difficulty; upper case, lower case, numbers, symbols, they’re all good, but it seems still rather easy for the machines to figure out. Poetry may present a bit more of a problem for the hacking technology though. That’s because it tends to be long, and length is good. Lynn spoke to David Gerhard, associate professor of computer science at the University of Regina. Allegations of sexual assault and cruel treatment of native women and girls by provincial police officers in northern Quebec have surfaced. These include a practice known as a “starlight tour” whereby police are alleged to drive aboriginals outside of the town and drop them off in the middle of nowhere to walk back. Also alleged is that such a practice takes place in cold and sub zero temperatures which could be life threatening. An internal investigation is taking place among officers of a detachment in Val D’Or Quebec. Several officers have been questioned. Carmel Kilkenny spoke with Dawn Lavell-Howard, president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada. There was a major legal victory for homeless people in Canada’s west coast province of British Columbia. The city of Abbotsford has been waging an on-going battle against homeless tent camps being set up on city property. The city has resorted to tactics like pepper spraying tents, slashing tents and even spreading chicken manure all around the ad hoc camps. A rights group took the case to the BC Supreme Court which has ruled in favour of the homeless’ rights to shelter citing Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Terry Haig spoke to D.J. Larkin of the Pivot Legal Society about the case.
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