cyber warfare exercise

Killer robots are not only iron machines with lethal specifications, but also ethereal entities on the internet. Bots (a “pet-name” abbreviation of robot) are robotic programs – software robot devices …

Network neutrality

What is the internet (the well-known one)? A form of telecommunications? Or a service delivery method? The difference is not apparent at first glance, especially for someone who has not …

Web footprints

Those who believe that cyberspace is the great opportunity to “disappear” (hiding their identity) are sorely mistaken. The conscription of providers (i.e., the data of their customers) is a well-known …

Big ball!

Online shopping for products in a marketplace with over 10 million stores, free messages, calls and video calls, file sharing (even large multimedia files), social networking for both personal and …

The metaphysics of cyber-warfare

This is “the bad guy” Sauron, from “the lord of the rings”. ProjectSauron is what the well-known Russian malware fighting company Kaspersky Labs named a new discovery of theirs (almost …

social cats

The site iknowwhereyourcatlives.com is an online page – a project by a professor at the University of Florida. It displays a world map with little cats at the spot where …

housekeeper

This elegant, understated, pastel-colored, vase-like object on the right side of the photograph belongs to the category of things that will soon become commonplace. Not around here, at first—but what …

Solu

We don’t do advertisements, so the mention of Solu has nothing to do with the certainty that it’s the next popular gadget on the market, but rather the opposite: it …

The pearly gates of cyberspace

This essay by Margaret Wertheim was published in Greek in the magazine futura no. 5, Winter 1998 – 1999, from which we republish it. It was included in the collective …