Andreas Udo de Haes

A 'small number' of Offline Address Book users had some of their data accessed. The data breach occurred in Microsoft data centres in North America, Europe and Asia

Because of a risk of eavesdropping the government of the Netherlands has banned electronic voting machines from future elections, and will return to paper voting. "Research indicates that a secure voting machine that is immune to the risks of eavesdropping can't be guaranteed," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said last week. n

The governmental guidelines from the departments of internal and economic affairs, titled "The Netherlands open and connected," forces the national government to adopt open standards by May 2008