Anonymous Hacks Web Site of Fabrizio Corona

Web site of Fabrizio Corona Hacked

I was a little slow on the uptake, despite being tweeted at by people who are probably part of the Anonymous hacking network.  What the Anonymous people have managed to do it to hack into the website of Italian paparazzo, photographer Fabrizio Corona in support of whistle-blower Bradley … [Read more...]

Investigating the Cops’ Websites

After writing about the successful hacking attack on Italy's crack cyber-crime fighting police unit, I decided to do a little technical digging.  I decided to carry out a quick and dirty quality control check on the websites of Italy's two main police forces and see how they measured up in … [Read more...]

Surreal Legal Writing

Justice

Yes, I know it's odd to say it, but today's (it was still 'today' when I started writing this!) encounter with the advocates was a little bit on the surreal side.Would you believe that an examination of the language relating to liquidated damages, lept towards kangaroos, enduro and dirt bikes, … [Read more...]

The Web 2.0 profession

Just what do you think the Web 2.0 profession is? Webmaster? Software engineer? Coder? Programmer?Well, in my not so humble opinion, it's none of the above, but I think that this profession is going to see a massive amount of growth in many diverse sectors over the next few decades, not just with … [Read more...]

Italia.it isn’t

It was supposed to have been a shop window to Italy, a tourism web portal par excellence, but it has turned out to be a 7 million Euro white elephant. If you try to visit, www.italia.it, you won't see too much.  All I've been getting is server timeouts.  Brutta figura time. UPDATED July … [Read more...]