New Zealand Brewery offers tempting reward for stolen laptop

The Croucher Brewing Company in the central North Island city of Rotorua, New Zealand had a laptop stolen earlier this week. The machine apparently had the only up to date copies of label designs, contact details and financial information and the company is desperate for it's return. According to the companies website "... instead of sitting on our hands hoping against hope that it would be found, we decided to offer a reward… if someone finds the laptop and returns it with all files and data in-tact and as it was, we will supply that person with one dozen Croucher Brewing boutique beer every month for the rest of their life! That is not a typo."

I like your thinking guys! And apparently so does the media "The amount of interest in our plea has been fantastic, and has allowed a devastating event to have a silver lining with the good wishes of people far and wide. Thank you."

More government hacking but no name calling this time

New Zealand government computers have been the most recent target according the countries top intelligence officer and confirmed by the Prime Minister. Security Intelligence Service head Warren Tucker said “strong evidence” was found to link the hacking activities to foreign governments and referred to comments by Canada's security service about Chinese spying activities. Prime Minister Helen Clark said she knew which government was responsible but declined to name names. The Globe and Mail has more here.