«As telecommunications operations become more complex each day, several primary sources of fraud continue to plague the industry. In a 2006 survey commissioned by Subex Azure, participants cited fraud as the single largest area of revenue leakage. Average fraud losses increased from 2.7 percent of annual revenues in 2005 to 2.9 percent in 2006. That equals more than $44 billion globally from the telecom industry’s bottom line. Given the size and scope of the problem, what are the top frauds, how can they be identified, and how can we thwart them?»

«Understanding how Apple’s FairPlay DRM works helps to answer a lot of questions: why it hasn’t been replaced with an open, interoperable DRM that anyone can use, why Apple isn’t broadly licensing FairPlay, and why the company hasn’t jumped to add DRM-free content from indie artists to iTunes.»