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[Link] ‘Meltdown’ at UK passport renewals forces travellers to cancel Easter breaks

Read: 10/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

Travellers are being forced to cancel Easter travel bookings because of a backlog at HM Passport Office which is delaying renewals. Some passengers have been left hundreds of pounds out of pocket because their new passports failed to arrive before their departure date.

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[Link] Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure

Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Security researchers have checked the web's public key infrastructure and have measured a long-known but little-analyzed security threat: hidden root Certificate Authorities. Certificate Authorities, or CAs, vouch for the digital certificates we use to establish trust online.

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[Link] Why are the Last 4 Digits of an SSN Important?

Read: 11/11/2021 www.stilt.com

Social Security Numbers are issued by the government and they are used for various purposes. A lot of times, different companies will use the last four digits of your SSN. However, these four digits are crucial and you need to protect them. But why are the last 4 digits of an SSNso important?

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[Link] More than 60% of people visiting Melbourne vaccination hub did not have Medicare card

Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

More than 60% of people who visited a Melbourne vaccination centre targeting those facing disadvantage did not have a Medicare card, while about 5% were probably homeless, figures show.

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[Link] The plan to tighten Australia’s voter ID laws is just a clumsy uptake of US culture wars

Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

It resembles many initiatives of the Morrison government, and most of the ideas which have emerged from Australian conservatism more broadly in the past decade or more, in that it is opportunistic, unoriginal, and so unnecessary as to be baffling.

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[Link] Afghan refugee may lose permanent residency in Australia – for supplying identity document

Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Apermanent resident of Australia – an Afghan refugee who has lived in Brisbane for a decade – has been threatened with having his visa cancelled, and possible deportation, over an identity document the Australian government asked him to produce.

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