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13/09/2011

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Misha Glenny investigates cybercrime in his new book, DarkMarket

Misha Glenny investigates the underworld of cybercrime; Angela Saini looks into the future of 3D printing; How to type on an experimental liquid keyboard

Misha Glenny is a writer and broadcaster who for his new book DarkMarket, has ventured into the cyber criminal underworld.  Along the way Glenny meets the architects of phishing attacks, hacks into major networks and just about everything in between.  At the heart of the story is one of the world's most notorious criminal websites.  In pursuing the criminals, Misha Glenny found that he was not the only one trying to infiltrate their world – so are law enforcement officers.  Misha Glenny joins Gareth Mitchell to discuss why we all have a stake in the outcome of cybercrime.


There seems to have been an explosion of interest in 3D printing in the last few years, with the dream that one day we may have such printers in our homes and be able to print off household items such as cups and even furniture.  But what about body parts?  Angela Saini reports on the rise of 3D bio-printing, and a future where prostheses will be replaced by body parts run off on printers.


Are you fed up with one-finger typing on flat screen devices?  Well a liquid keyboard might provide a solution for you in the future.  Such a keyboard would be designed so that the buttons position themselves to suit the user.  This liquid keyboard approach is at the heart of research at the University of Technology Sydney, and was unveiled at the recent Tech23 conference in Australia.  Christian Sax, one of its developers, joins Click to describe how it works.

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