Newspapers and Magazines Articles by Roberto
How to monitor a USD2 trillion rescue package
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 03/06/2022
Proof-of-Work Doesn’t Solve Every Blockchain Use Case
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 15/04/2022
How Secure is our Digital Identity A Blockchain View from Roberto Capodieci
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 03/09/2021
Copy movies and games? For 74% of citizens it is not a real crime – Copiare film e giochi? Per Il 74% dei cittadini non e in vero reato
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 25/06/2021
La pirateria e i diritti d’autore – Piracy and Copyrights
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 04/06/2021
On the mobile phone only makes coffee – Al telefonino manca soltanto di fare il caffe
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 28/05/2021
Convenient to pay with “Plastic” but the risk of fraud is high – Comodo pagare con la “Plastica” ma Il rischio truffa e alto
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 21/05/2021
Cell phone, The Electronic Mutant – Telefonino, Il Mutante Electronico
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 14/05/2021
The iniquitous tax on virgin media – L’Iniquo balzello sui supporti vergini
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 07/05/2021
Internet, the scam of ghost sites – Internet, la truffa dei siti fantasma
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 30/05/2021
Tired Innovation, Italy changes gear – Stanca Innovazione, L’Italia cambia marcia
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 16/04/2021
Free and spam filters – Libero ed i filtri antispam
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 09/04/2021
Unreliable email service – Servizio email non affidabile
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 26/03/2021
Hackers, Crackers, Pirates or Rebel Genes? – Hackers, Crackers, Pirati o Geni ribelli?
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 12/02/2021
Letter to the publication
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A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 05/02/2021
Le Iene hunting for the two fake doctors – Le Iene a caccia dei due falsi medici
Following my participation to the TV show “Le iene”, I been asked if I was interested to produce more shows with them. As “Le Iene” is a humorous investigative journalistic TV show, I did try to prepare a story on how two doctors have been working at the hospital for decades without ever getting a university degree. The news reported on my work.
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 08/01/2021
Criminals not Hackers – Criminali non Hackers
The word “hacker” had initially a positive connotation, identifying an enthusiast, someone curious that could discover new ways to use things. It has later taken a negative connotation, indicating a cybercriminal. When someone uses simple scripts found online to “deface” websites (replace the home page with a political or hate message) annoys me to see the term “hacker” used. In this article I try to explain the difference between hacker, cracker, and script kiddies…
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 27/11/2020
So They Earn on Naivety – Cosi Guadagnano sull’Ingenuità
A small article I wrote for a national newspaper on an online scam targeting internet users and mobile phone users. The download of ringtones claimed to be free ended up costing users thousands of euros on their phone bills.
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 20/11/2020
Il mondo inter-musicale lanciato dai Lagash
Can Midi (the data protocol between musical instruments and a computer) travel via Internet? In this article I tell the story of a music band that had a jam session over the internet way before video calls were a thing 🙂
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 28/08/2020
Sex tourist “expelled” from The USA – Espulso dall’america turista del sesso
As the Internet underground started splitting in two groups (the vigilantes and the villains) in this article I narrate how someone looking for illegal material has been “kicked out” from the usenet groups he was in.
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 21/08/2020
Here’s who will conquer the earth – Ecco chi conquisterà la terra
This article, that I wrote in 1997, gives me shivers when I read it now. I describe quite perfectly someone as Mark Zuckerberg and the effects that something like Facebook can have, as if I predicted Cambridge Analytica scandal 22 years in advance!
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 14/08/2020
Searching to see if there is Mestre? We are mentioned 1087 times – Cercate se c’è Mestre? Ci siamo per 1087 volte.
I had to produce an article every week for the newspaper “Il Gazzettino”. I wasn’t paid. It was a way for me to get known more, and for the newspaper to show a reach to technologies and the Internet. As I am not a journalist, it has been also a great exercise for me to write, and to think what to write about. This article talks about how many times the city I am from is mentioned in the Internet. Something that nowadays requires a simple Google search that would return millions of results, but back then there was no Google, and very few results…
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 31/07/2020
Finally a fully Venetian Intranet – Finalmente un intranet tutto veneziano
At the time that Intranets were more common that Internet (due to the slow speed of the Internet and the fast speed of the Intranet), someone thought to make a public Intranet that extended to all the province of Venice. So I did interview them for my newspaper article. I did also try to explain Internet routing to the public. Had they got the concept? Not easy to explain complex topics with simple analogies…
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 17/07/2020
Stroll around Venetian’s small pathways while you are in your pajamas – Passeggiare per le calli rimanendo in pigiama
At age 22, one of my first articles for a newspaper. The topic being the Internet and me having grown up in Venice, Italy, I wrote about an online 3D Venice. I also wrote how people could get websites for free, rather than paying a lot of money for local hosting providers, and a small glossary of this new terminology that soon would become daily language.
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article will be published on 03/07/2020
Classified ADs – Annuncio
While this is not properly a magazine article about or by me, it is a very nice find. Dated May 1986, is an ad I placed at age 11 in a magazine for electronics, to trade cartridge software of my computer for a memory expansion! More explanation in the blog post!
A blog post with high resolution images, transcript, translation, and downloads of this article can be found here: https://capodieci.roberto.network/2020/05/29/friday-past-reads-1-may-1986