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    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

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    The federal government has confirmed funding for the controversial health and welfare access card scheme in tonight's budget. Airport security, Centrelink's call centre and DIMIA are other winners.

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    Baycorp Advantage claims to be close to linking its national FraudCheck system to the Roads and Traffic Authority's driver's licence database.

  • AU government's eyes are on you

    The federal government has announced plans to link individual databases in different departments together to create an uber-database containing personal information that will be available to official agencies.

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  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

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  • One billion passports to get biometrics, RFID by 2015

    Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.

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    Windows Defender is free and therefore should be a part of your desktop antispyware collection. Still, it's best to get a second opinion, probably from your name-brand antivirus-plus-software application.

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    We examine tools that can drill down through your applications to pinpoint exactly where loading causes trouble.

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    In this special report, we review six archival options in the market.

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