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Photo World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park was home to the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked codes used to encipher messages between Hitler's high command. Here silicon.com visits the... [13 Nov 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo The centre also has a regularly updated list of the IP addresses of the servers that command botnets, allowing it to spot attempts to connect to systems by botnet command servers. Symantec's security... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo It is now being used to crack new messages enciphered using the same system employed by the German high command during World War II. The rebuilt Colossus will be put to work on intercepted radio messages transmitted by... [16 Nov 2007]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo Missile Command is a Cold War classic from 1980 in which players defend cities from the threat of interplanetary ballistic missiles. Imagine having this in your front room. It's the PDP-1, the system which ran the... [28 Nov 2006]
Photos: Tower of London trials virtual escapes
Photo The GPS is supposed to be accurate to within five metres but its reliability can be affected by different factors such as the time of day, and several times during one game the iPaq failed to trigger the location-based... [10 Nov 2006]
Photos: Inside Fifa's World Cup IT operation
Photo The venue holds the broadcast centre and Fifa's main IT command centre. One team inside Fifa's IT command centre hard at work ensuring the network continues working. This ticket, like the other three... [20 Jun 2006]