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Another Data Point in the P2P Debate


Researchers from Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina released a study today that suggests that illegal downloading of songs via P2P networks is not having a significant effect on legitimate music sales and in many cases may help album sales. The Washington Post has the story. A few choice paragraphs: Songs that […]

The Spread of the Witty Worm


The folks at UCSD Computer Science and Engineering and the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) put their “Network Telescope” to good work in analyzing the spread of the Witty Worm. From their analysis: Witty was the first widely propagated Internet worm to carry a destructive payload. Witty was started in an organized manner […]

DARPA takes aim at IT sacred cows


Government Computing News has an interesting, short article on DARPA’s focus on new computer architectures and networking protocols, discussed this week at the DARPATech conference in Anaheim. Flaws in the basic building blocks of networking and computer science are hampering reliability, limiting flexibility and creating security vulnerabilities, program managers said this week at the Defense […]