For nearly a year, cyber-security researchers have tracked the Storm worm as its malicious code spread across the Internet, drawing computers into a growing botnet of hijacked computers.

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Apple is drawing a fair amount of internet ire for their actions, as chronicled by Carl Franzen at Talking Points Memo.

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Even Microsoft admits that drawing on the expertise of internet users to scrutinise and improve software has its merits, at least in some cases.

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He began uploading time-lapse videos of himself drawing city panoramas to YouTube in 2006, wowing internet surfers worldwide.

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Dr Byron also wants the government to set up a UK Council for Child Internet Safety that will report to the Prime Minister and be charged with drawing up a national strategy for online safety.

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