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  • Virtual safety: Spy vs. Spy

    A handful of private companies have started to take enforcement into their own hands, quietly developing security units to protect their clients' assets in cyberspace. What has emerged is a powerful, albeit clandestine, industry within an industry, with an unsurpassed access to otherwise classified security information that is now seeking to exercise its political clout to make the virtual business world safer for commerce.

  • The hacktivism myth

    Hacktivism is a bastardisation of the words hack and activism. In truth, it's neither. Rather, it has become a cheapjack pseudo-politically hip moniker for the activities of apolitical teenage miscreants devoid of talent, creativity and passion.

  • eTerrorism: Assessing the infrastructure risk

    While warnings pervade government and the media, doomsday scenarios of cyberterrorism that result in massive deaths or injury remain largely the stuff of Hollywood scripts or conspiracy theory.

  • Hollywired: Movies on the Net

    Hollywired takes a look at where the online film industry is now and where it's headed. Check out our interview with Angelina Jolie, the confessions of a would-be movie pirate, a look at online animation and our guide to film download sites.

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