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/ 17 December 2006
Think your data is safe, if it’s backed up on CDs? Think again, say experts. Data burned on to CDs does not last forever. ”Self-burned CDs sometimes last only a year before they’re no longer readable and the data is lost,” says computer science professor Matthias Hemmje from the Fern-Universitaet Hagen.
A German court on Friday found three elderly men, known as the ”grandpa gang”, guilty of bank robbery and sentenced them to between nine and 12 years in prison. Over a 16-year period, the trio robbed 14 German banks, stealing more than â,¬1-million (,23-million, R8,2-million).