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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment Ten years ago a 19-year-old Shawn Fanning launched Napster and music file-sharing; and the property rights war has been raging ever since. The tape recorder, CD, MP3, Walkman, iPod, mobile phone player et... [24 Sep 2009]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment But unlike the Second World War, this is a struggle that we're losing. A short cyber crime story on Al Jazeera TV on Sunday made me realise that this year's Infosec show in London had passed me by,... [29 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: A greener Apple
Comment Apple's recent and well publicised move to green computing follows a dogged PR war against the company's policy on green manufacturing and recycling. And given the presence of environmental heavy hitter... [23 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns
Comment But soon World War Two, the invention of the transistor, the space race and the arrival of the microprocessor quickly made it all very real. Last month it was revealed that the first flying remotely operated vehicle... [07 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.03.07
Round-Up So it's death, pestilence, war and (possibly given the sudden lack of poultry) famine all the way. Almost a year before the first 2008 US presidential primary, a YouTube video clip war has erupted... [23 Mar 2007]
'Tech industry must aid Al-Qaeda fight'
News The Home Secretary predicted a sustained war of attrition against terrorists, and warned that economic disruption was a substantial threat. Reid said: "Al-Qaeda's threat to bleed us to bankruptcy is clear. [01 Nov 2006]
Freescale bought for $17.6bn
News Before it declare a union with Blackstone et al, Freescale had been rumoured to be the subject of a private equity bidding war with another group - including Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and... [18 Sep 2006]
US cyber spies want more rights to snoop
News But obtaining individual warrants "is less well-suited to provide the agility to detect and prevent attacks against the homeland" than it was during the Cold War era, Hayden said, particularly when investigators are in... [27 Jul 2006]
Opinion: What a year it's been for e-crime
Comment The evidence to date strongly suggests fighting e-crime remains low on the list of international government priorities, in contrast with the war against terrorism and efforts to combat the scourge of child pornography. [15 Mar 2006]
Journalist saved by Google search
News She is employed by the Australian arm of CARE International and is the organisation's chief of operations in the war zone. He was grabbed at gunpoint outside the al-Hamra Hotel just across the road from... [20 Oct 2004]
Bin Laden 'suicide' virus recruits zombie army
News It seems this time the hacker has focused on the public's morbid curiosity and appetite for news on the war against terror," he said. Last week, a variant of the Atak worm was linked with an Al-Qaeda... [26 Jul 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.01.04
Round-Up In fact you have to get down as far as seventh place in the unique social barometer which is Google's top 10 search terms of 2003 to find something which might be deemed a worthwhile pursuit of knowledge - 'war in Iraq'. [09 Jan 2004]
NASA websites defaced with link to Iraq 'image'
News The maintainers of an online archive of defaced websites say 13 NASA sites have been modified by anti-war protesters from Brazil. It's punk kids defacing NASA, which has nothing to do with any war, and... [18 Dec 2003]
Peter Cochrane’s Uncommon Sense: Death by a million tracks
Comment And if they had have done this on day one instead of attacking Napster et al, the war would have been over before it had started. In this continuing war between the customer and supplier... [14 Aug 2003]
Labour website hacked in attack on 'poodle' Blair
News During the war in Iraq a number of cyber attacks were aimed at targets such as the Al Jazeera website. It is most likely the attack was the latest instance of so-called hacktivism - politically motivated... [16 Jun 2003]
