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Justice for Kara & Jessica
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The Australian federal police are putting hackers to work to collect information about people who have disappeared in Australia. The hackers are given 6 hours to try to discover new traces, based on information that is publicly available on the web, but that may well be hidden. They are so-called "ethical hackers": specialized in testing the security of computer systems. They are not criminals after your bank details.
The day is organized as a competition and in the end there are prizes to be won, such as vouchers or an advanced cyber security course . But unlike other virtual games, the goal here is to find real missing people.
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The question that is on everyone's lips is whether the hackers today will also find more information about the latest conversations that Theo had via Whatsapp. In a press conference, Theo's father made an emotional appeal to the company to release information about those conversations, because there is hope that it might contain crucial information about his disappearance. But because those messages are strictly protected, with so-called "end to end encryption", even Whatsapp has no access to the content.