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Police lack resources for paedophile hunts
News British paedophile units admit they do not have the resources and expertise to pull off further investigations like Operation Cathedral. Operation Cathedral was the largest ever international porn raid and followed months of surveillance of the...
[February 15, 2001, 9:02]
Encryption foils Internet child porn prosecutions
News In the 14 countries that were invited to participate in Operation Cathedral -- the international police investigation into the Wonderland Club -- many prosecutions failed because police computer experts were unable to crack the encryption codes...
[August 3, 2001, 14:10]
International child porn operation smashed
News The raid follows the success of Operation Cathedral, the largest ever Internet raid, culminating in over 100 arrests word-wide and the seizure of close to a million pornographic images of children. An NCIS spokesman said of the raid: "This is not...
[March 22, 1999, 12:09]
The Net: home to paedophile rings - Stewardson
News He headed up the UK arm of Operation Cathedral -- the international investigation into the largest ever Internet paedophile ring. Stewardson should know better than anyone. Dubbed the Wonderland Club, the ring is believed to have had 180 members...
[March 22, 1999, 10:50]
Podcasting gets the royal treatment
News The broadcast, recorded at Southwark Cathedral, focused on the relationship between generations and how faiths can help increase respect for senior citizens. The Queen's Christmas message is being offered as a podcast for the first time
[December 28, 2006, 9:52]
Wonderland Club paedophiles to be sentenced
News The seven were among 107 arrested in 1998 following a covert international raid, dubbed Operation Cathedral, involving 12 countries. Seven men convicted for their part in the child pornography ring known as the "Wonderland Club" will be sentenced...
[February 12, 2001, 6:06]
Top ten stories of the year
News Admired and vilified in almost equal measure by the open source community, The Cathedral and the Bazaar author Eric Raymond always draws a crowd, and his pontification on the pending downfall of Microsoft lived up to expectations.
[December 27, 2002, 6:10]
US Report: Linux rebels strike back at world-beating Microsoft
News Raymond got his hands on an internal Microsoft white paper marked "confidential" and annotated it at length (which was only fair, considering how extensively Microsoft analyzed and quoted Raymond's well-known open software treatise called "The...
[November 6, 1998, 10:10]
UK scientists express joy at LHC switch-on
News Part of that machine is the cathedral-sized Atlas detector, one of two general-purpose detectors (the other is the Compact Muon Solenoid, or CMS) in the LHC. On the morning of Wednesday, 10 September, 2008, the first particle beam was successfully...
[September 10, 2008, 13:03]
OSI president steps aside
News Raymond is the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", a manifesto that helped crystallise the idea and commercial viability of freely available software. The Open Source Initiative says that it has reorganised in an effort to bring more...
[February 2, 2005, 12:55]
Canonical releases distributed VCS
News The software, whose name recalls Eric Raymond's open-source manifesto The Cathedral and the Bazaar, is well suited for open-source projects — which are typically distributed — as well as for private projects where teams are dispersed, Canonical said.
[December 17, 2007, 16:17]
Police crack down on Net child pornographers
News Last year Operation Cathedral resulted in seven arrests in the UK and the seizure of around 100,000 illegal images. Experts agree that paedophilia on the Net is on the increase as the police launch their biggest crackdown yet on Internet child...
[December 10, 1999, 12:49]
Police disorganisation blamed for rise in Net crime
News The police chief explained that international crackdowns on Internet pornography such as Operation Cathedral in 1998 are often coordinated badly due to a lack of organisation and planning across the countries involved.
[January 18, 2001, 15:11]
Anger as Eric Raymond drops Red Hat
News Raymond wrote the seminal paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar in 1999, which compared various ways of developing free software. A key figure in the open source community has transferred his allegiance from Red Hat to Ubuntu this week, sparking a...
[February 26, 2007, 9:13]
Open-source guru finds Mac OS X too restrictive
News Raymond, who wrote the key open-source text "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", and developed the widely used Fetchmail software for relaying Internet messages, said he is happier to focus his development efforts on Linux, which uses the broader GNU...
[March 26, 2002, 16:49]
News Roundup: Government gets taste for tech
News Thu, 15 Feb Operation Cathedral has successfully trapped paedophiles across the globe but it may not happen again The UK government loves hyping up its plans to turn the country into the most wired country in the G7, but does it really know what it...
[February 20, 2001, 16:42]
Internet child pornographer gets 35 years
News One hundred eighty men were arrested worldwide on 2 September 1998 after a massive international police raid, codenamed Operation Cathedral. An Internet paedophile was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in jail for the live broadcast of pornographic...
[January 19, 2001, 10:51]
Police use face-mapping tools to identify abuse victims
News The IT company Serco was commissioned to develop the face-recognition software for NCS following Operation Cathedral -- an international operation that led to the arrest and imprisonment of the world's largest Internet paedophile ring, the...
[November 28, 2001, 14:12]
Wonderland used encryption to swap child abuse pictures
News This secret network of paedophiles was infiltrated by the National Crime Squad on 2 September 1998 as part of the world's largest ever international pornography raid codenamed Operation Cathedral. The Internet has become an encrypted network for...
[February 13, 2001, 9:32]
Open-source payroll application launched
News This was the case for the system's first customer, Peter's Cathedral Bakers, a Durham-based bakery that employs around 600 employees and has 70 retail outlets, which has been running PayThyme since April 2003.
[November 25, 2004, 14:50]
