Mr Martin also faces four charges of obtaining an article for supply for use to commit or to assist in commission of computer misuse, and two of failing to comply with a notice to disclose the key to protected information.

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Troops protected key installations but were not involved in breaking up demonstrations.

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Last September the then Education Secretary Charles Clarke said he wanted a "national debate" on whether certain key subjects should be protected in the national interest.

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It found that many key bird areas are not protected under international law.

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While key manufacturing technologies might be protected, it would be foolish to believe that this arrangement will not give rise to significant compromises in a number of areas of satellite technology in which the United States currently predominates.

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This is the key issue: which farm land should be protected and who gets to say so?

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Your credit card purchases over the Internet are protected by a brilliant "public key cryptography" system invented by three MIT researchers in 1977.

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One key culling arena in which that expert might be valuable would be the segregation of data protected by attorney-client privilege.

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The authority said key priorities included ensuring there were minimal voluntary redundancies among staff and that the social care services budget was protected, and freezing nursery fees and charges at 2012 levels.

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