So far, islamic fundamentalism is winning the clash with western culture: their considerable capacity for ruthlessness and brutality, their vileness to inflict indiscriminate and monstrous mass murder has built up the psychology of let-up in the erosion of our hard-won civil liberties. The massive extension of electronic surveillance and all-encompassing databases in the name of "war on terror" has provided the means for an assault on our individual freedoms. And among us there are, of course, those who traffic well in the psychology of terrorism.

Take, for instance, the McAfee’s warning

"Your computer is not fully protected".

Here, on Grabov Rat, I’m miles and months apart from the nearest internet connection and, yet, each time my laptop goes out of the sleeping mode, dozen times a day, I see the warning on the screen. Now, take a wild guess: do they care about my security or the renewal of their services? If you believe that this is only a technical glitch in their software, you could be only partly right: how good is their anti-virus software if they can’t prevent their ‘friendly warning’ to appear when our computers are not connected to the internet?