Author: Greg Miller

For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.

The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for US troops during World War II. Flush with cash, it became a dominant maker of encryption devices for decades, navigating waves of technology from mechanical gears to electronic circuits and, finally, silicon chips and software.

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Health officials think they can track down the estimated 4000 people who haven't registered with the new coronavirus healthline by tomorrow.

Almost 2000 people are registered as being in self-imposed quarantine.

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Sydney Airshow 2019 in Wollongong - RAAF Royal Australian Airforce Boeing P-8A Poseidon

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A primary teacher has urged a select committee to stop teaching gender diversity in schools, describing it as the "stuff of nightmares" - but an MP on the committee said he's not convinced. 

Waitakiri Primary School teacher Helen Houghton presented her case against gender diversity education in New Zealand schools to the Education and Workforce Select Committee on Wednesday. 

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A Mosgiel man who believed he was sexually grooming a 14-year-old girl online has been sentenced to five months’ home detention.

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Evan Hedley Smith knew she was underage when he said he wanted her virginity, but it turns out the 14-year-old girl he confessed his love for was actually an undercover cop.

Police swooped on the 63-year-old Mosgiel man when he parked next to a Dunedin playground on December 20, 2018.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/119447693/age-is-only-a-number-sexual-groomer-tells-undercover-cop-posing-as-14yearold-girl
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Maritime patrol and maritime surveillance aircraft are a vital tool in ensuring what is known as maritime domain awareness, and they serve as a complementary asset for navies and coast guards protecting their nation’s maritime interests.

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We’re living in a brief window of time where our planet isn’t frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we’ve come to know as “normal” continue? What causes these dramatic shifts in temperature that thaw our planet and then throw it back into a state of deep freeze? This episode looks at how the changes in our planet’s orbit and rotation impacts our climate.

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