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21st September 2002 Archive

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  • Want to know how RIAA.org was hacked?

    Elementary, Watson! Mystery solved

    Two weeks ago the Recording Industry Association of America website was defaced.Twice. Even more embarrassing, the crackers installed pirate music files on the site for download. But how? zone-h.org, a security site-based in Estonia, has uncovered the elementary mistake in RIAA's robot.txt files which gave the crackers their …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2002, 09:15

  • More on the mobile phone P2P network

    Apeera into mobile futures

    A company called Apeera has a vision. It wants to help operators to create a vast mobile phone peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The start-up's application management system is still in its early stages of development, so there's some way to go before vision is turned into reality. We caught up with the company to explore its plans …

    Mobile 21 Sep 2002, 09:25

  • Who's the most wired nation?

    ITU speaks, we scratch our heads

    Silence the band and dim the lights, please: the ITU (International Telecommication Union) has published its annual global survey into which country is the most wired for mobile data. Hong Kong and Denmark come out as winners, but Dan Gillmor, who travels a lot, in his SJ Mercury log asks how they arrived at this conclusion. …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2002, 09:34