high profile, bringing hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people watching on TV, so it's a great platform for someone promoting a cause. The events themselves are increasingly dependant on electronic measuring too. In one example of a technical failure, Mexico 1968 was dramatic not just for the famous black power salute, but because it was the first Olympic Games at altitude. Bob Beamon increased the world record for the long jump by more than a foot. They measured the jump using an optical sensor running along a track by the side of the pit. Because his jump was so long, no one guessed the sensor would have to travel so far, and it fell off the end of the rail. These days we're becoming more sophisticated and we want to measure everything instantly down to the last thousandth of a second; you can't run athletics events using stop watches any more. D-EN: In terms of politics, we're probably less of a target, but we live in a world with all sorts of weird and wonderful bodies launching attacks on the Internet. Not just private organisations like Anonymous and LulzSec, but also cyber warfare by nation states. Practically every country in the world has been gearing up to address the growing threat to national infrastructure which is posed by cyber war. As soon as you start getting nation states involved with huge resources behind them to create cyber weapons, you're into a different ballgame. If the same sorts of