Show Notes: Foreign Cyber Attacks, Crime Fighting Technology and Science on the Web
So that's iPM done for another week - acta est fabula, plaudite! (see below for an explanation)
Here's what we covered on today's programme, with links so you can learn more.
Cyber attacks from abroad
After the UK government openly accused China of carrying out state-sponsored espionage against vital parts of Britain’s economy, we heard from Dr Ian Brown who co-wrote a report for the computer security company McAfee about cybercrime.
iPM also spoke to Ilya Vladimirovich Vasilyev, who runs the world's only school for hackers - the Civil Hackers' School in Moscow.
Crime-Fighting Technology
We heard from DCI Mick Neville from the Met's VIIDO unit about new technology which could be used to identify CCTV images of suspects based on what they wear. David McIntosh works for the company which makes the software which the Met is considering using.
Mr Blog
Chris Vallance took us to Arden, a virtual world based on Shakespeare's Richard III
Science teaching on-line
This was sparked by a suggestion from Sharon Colpman, which put us on to Planet Scicast - we spoke to the website's founder, Jonathan Sanderson. Giving his response to their efforts to engage youngsters in science was Michael Reiss, Director of Education at the Royal Society and Professor of Science Education at the Institute of Education.
My Favourites
The voice of the Saturday afternoon football results, James Alexander Gordon, guided us through his favourite websites.
He chose:
BBC Radio Berkshire
Go-Autogas
Google Earth
The stories that didn't make it
We considered doing a feature to mark World Aids Day- but we couldn't quite find the iPM angle. There's lots of coverage elsewhere though.
We looked into the notion of whether new media could revive Latin, sparked by this blog entry - but as we covered science on the internet, we couldn't really do languages in the same programme. By the way, "acta est fabula, plaudite" means "the play is over, applaud!"
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Comments
I was thrown out of science in secondary school because I 'disrupted lessons by asking too many questions'. Undaunted I spent my breaks and lunchours in the library oftenn devouring chemistry books. This gave me a thirst for knowledge that has never left me. i am still frightened of science but thanks to the open university have taken up the opportunity to study a wide range of subjects that I certainly did not have the opportunity to study at school. I am glad my experience in science lessons did not kill my insatiable love of learning as it could so easily have done. Open learning for all ages is a must in any civilized society.
Your article on Cybercrime and in particular the interview with the chap from the Civil Hackers School which has not generated any comment goes some way to explain the general public's view on hacking.
I am sure if you went to a terrorist school and interviewed someone who taught people how to make bombs there would be an outrage.
Yet hackers make just as destructive instruments - until such times as a computer virus damages life saving systems or allows criminals to rewrite their records and escape conviction, no-one takes them seriously.