March 18, 2004

Experts downplay Phatbot danger InfoWorld - Security experts downplayed the danger of a Trojan horse program named Phatbot that uses peer to peer (P-to-P) technology to create a network of infected zombies for carrying out attacks or spreading malicious code. 3:46:36 PM

Democracy for the Middle East - David Warren has written the best single paragraph we've read on Madrid: "There is no ambiguity in what has happened in Spain. The rotten heart of Europe has been exposed. The best comparison one can make is to Europe in 1940, when the entire continent had capitulated to Nazism and fascism, leaving Britain alone to fight. It thus came to be known as "Churchill's war", rather than "Hitler's war", only to revert when the Allies had won it, and a generation of Europeans, who had not lifted a finger, decided retrospectively that they had been in the Resistance."   What did you do in the war Daddy? 3:05:45 PM

CBC Manitoba Senior al-Qaeda figure surrounded in Pakistan: reports CBC Manitoba - Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaeda's second in command next to Osama bin Laden, has been surrounded by Pakistani troops near the Afghan border, according to reports. 1:37:21 PM