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Internet domain names are the theme of this week's column, thanks to QuoVadis, which sent me a graph of a recent survey on the current state of '.bm'.
The '.bm' top level domain name is the country code assigned to Bermuda on the Internet. Thus sites...
DATE: Jul 30, 2003
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Sign in Japanese bookstore to digital shoplifters (translated of course): “Please refrain from recording information with camera-mounted cell phones and other devices.”
Yep. This is to stop cheapos from taking snapshots of magazine articles with thei...
DATE: Jul 09, 2003
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Again, after the latest cyber crime crackdown in the US, I feel compelled to warn people about hoaxes on the Internet.
Last week US officials announced that 135 people were charged and more than $17 million seized in a crackdown on investment swindle...
DATE: May 21, 2003
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Last week I discovered two dialler programs had been installed without my knowledge in my computer. These change the number used by dial up connections to expensive premium rate lines. They were unable to work as I'm connected to an ADSL line and the...
DATE: May 14, 2003
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While the war rages in Iraq the battle of the television networks to capture viewers on the Internet has heated up.
Some commentators claim that the Iraq war may be the "defining moment" for streaming news media, in much the same way that Cable News ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2003
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After seeing "Catch Me if You Can" last Saturday, I began wondering about how a fraudster like the amazing Frank Abagnale, the subject of the movie, would be able to fare in this new technological age.
Has technology made the world a safer and more s...
DATE: Mar 05, 2003
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Tech Tattle By Ahmed ElAmin
The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute is holding two free webcasts on securities issues, one dealing with Windows, the other with UNIX vulnerabilities.
The webcast on Windows security problems will be hel...
DATE: Feb 05, 2003
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I was a pretend IT guy for the weekend. I spent my time fixing the many computer problems of a couple I know in Margaux, France, and trying to be patient.
When I got the desperate call to come over for a visit, I promised myself to be the ideal IT gu...
DATE: Nov 27, 2002
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Even if you do not know your geography, you would conclude that it must be cold in Iceland.
With 69.8 percent of the entire population online, Iceland had the highest rate of Internet penetration in the world at the end of May 2002, according to a st...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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Salvation through technology. This hope has characterised the vaulting ambitions of those who continually push us to the boundaries of what science and machines can achieve.
Cybernetics, an inter-disciplinary study of control and communication in the...
DATE: Aug 07, 2002
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