Arhive zilnice: 4 decembrie 2006

EU-oriented Romanian television channel dies before being born

 etichetat In English / WreckRomania

At the end of November, a EU-oriented television channel was supposed to start broadcasting in Romania. But something happened on the way… It seems that the money involved in the investment were not all meant to be spent for such a high aim: informing the Romanian public about European matters. Sources from inside the newsroom said the whole business smells fishy and most of the reporters will leave the job before even really starting to work. More news to come.

The hacker who smashed computers 3

 etichetat cyberculture / Hold the press! / In English / jurnalism/jurnaliști / WreckRomania

Everybody knows about it by now: a young Romanian boy hacked NASA’s computers and he will be prosecuted in the US. But how much do we know about it? I mean, what did he actually do? „Hack”, „break codes”, „illegal access”, these are not words meant to inform us. For years, the same old stories about hackers emphasize their media-constructed image of „bad guys” who try to take over the world by sitting in front of their computer. So, what did Faur do? I’m sick and tired of all these second-hand vulgarized stories about hi-tech guys in the Romanian media. […]