But he should be praised for alerting responsible administrators and Microsoft themselves to the danger that their program posed to the net.

BBC: How digital Armageddon was averted

Rather than being accused of siding with the Taliban, he says, Al Jazeera should be praised for its determination to present opposing views.

ECONOMIST: Al Jazeera

He claimed that the first votes were matters of conscience on which varieties of opinion should be tolerated, and praised Republicans for backing the second, on which American military operations and lives depended.

ECONOMIST: Out of the dark, Republican glimmers