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A 19 year old teenager was charged with 'unauthorized use of a computer' after downloading over 7,000 records from the Nova Scotia Freedom-of-Information web portal. The teenager whose name has not been released, has been accused of stealing documents from the portal, with many of them being publicly accessible and redacted.
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Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach
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(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:40AM
All news sites suck. The just suck in different ways.
The best counter to that is to try to use articles that are as close to the primary source as possible. Bleeping Computer is almost always a layer or two further away from the primary source than the more timely sites. If you aren't receiving the information directly from the primary souce, it is guaranteed to be distorted [chadjthiele.com] with each degree of separation adding its own distortions. So, again, you need to be as close to the primary source as possible.
However, each source might have only a small part of the big picture so it is necessary for the article's author to check with multiple primary sources. The best we can ask for then is an article in direct contact with multiple primary sources. Back to the bias, the news sites have diferent staff, editors, and advertisers or funding sources. Those all combine to make them realiable on certain topics and unreliable on other topics. That changes from time to time. The only thing that can be done about that is to keep track of that and adjust news source selection accordingly to gain articles from sites where they are strong and avoid articles on topics they fail at.
So if you use the Bleeping Computer don't be lazy and just paste their link. Instead find the names and places in a current news search engine because by the time the news hits Bleeping Computer it will be well indexed and you can find the articles closer to the primary sources. Same goes for crap sites like Daily Mail and many others that don't need to be mentioned. This is all high-school level journalism. It's also source evaluation that use to be covered a lot at the undergraduate levels.
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