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In recent months the satellite TV giant has filed nearly 9,000 federal lawsuits against people who've purchased signal piracy devices. But some of those devices have legitimate uses, and innocent computer geeks are getting caught in the crackdown, writes Kevin Poulsen of SecurityFocus. In 2000, Texas-based physician Rod Sosa says he had the entrepreneurial notion that medical offices might pay a premium for a secure workstation -- one better suited for housing sensitive patient information than an off-the-shelf PC. A long time computer geek and tinkerer -- as well as a medical doctor and internist -- Sosa began working on...

Satan’s Snares By Darren Morrison Living the Christian life we must walk carefully and always be alert for the snares of the Devil. Satan knows he cannot take our salvation, that is secured, but he can wreck our testimony. Being a Christian takes work. We cannot sit and do nothing; it takes effort to avoid the snares. A snare is a trap with a lure. Luke 21:34. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35. For as...