Internet news stories

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Hi all

A number of stories on a virus threat, child protection and
censorship, a French law on archiving Net content, digital divide,
the Internet in China and domain names.

Cheers
David

US officials warn of Net threat
In an unprecedented show of force against an extremely virulent
Internet attack, United States Government and private officials on
Monday will implore worldwide organisations to protect themselves
from the "Code Red" worm. 
 http://technology.scmp.com/ZZZDCTA5RPC.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2464509%5E442,00.html

Net saves $141 a week: study 
FAMILIES could save up to $141 a week by using the internet at home
to pay bills, do banking, shop, send emails and browse for
information, a new study has found.
Three out of four households saved time or money by using the
internet for common tasks, according to the Save@Home study
commissioned by the National Office for the Information Economy.

http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2465867%5E442,00.html

Court Rejects Govt. Move To Toss Net Porn Filtering Case 
A lawsuit challenging a new statute that requires publicly funded
libraries to shield kids from Internet pornography deserves to be
heard and will go to trial next February, a federal court ruled
today.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168404.html

U.S. Bills Take Aim at 'Cybermolesters'
A bill that would classify child pornography as contraband and allow
federal wiretaps of suspected "cybermolesters" was re-introduced into
the Senate Thursday.
 http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/12322.html

Commission moves to protect the young online
Moves by the European Commission, national governments and individual
projects aiming to ensure safer use of the internet among young users
have been announced, as further evidence is released showing the
importance of the internet to young people.
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=4730

File-Swapping Is New Route for Pornography on Internet
The file-swapping services that have grown in popularity as Napster
has waned can be used to trade pornography as well as music,
presenting a new environment in which minors can be exposed to
hard-core photographs and even videos, two members of Congress warned
yesterday.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/28/technology/28SWAP.html

Pornographer Gathers Support 
Ohio Conviction on Private Journal Alarms Rights Advocates
Civil libertarians are rallying behind a Columbus, Ohio, man who was
sentenced to seven years in prison on pornography charges for writing
his fantasies of torturing and molesting children in a private
journal -- even though he did not disseminate the material.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44110-2001Jul24.html

Netgem and the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) Cooperate
on TV Web Parental Control
Paris and London - Netgem and the Internet Content Rating Association
(ICRA) have announced an agreement to allow television portal
operators to benefit from ICRA's parental control system when using
Netgem's technology.

http://www.netgem.com/english/presse/communique-fiche.asp?Cp_Id=59&from=home

How the FBI watches the net 
By bugging a keyboard or using special software, FBI agents can
remotely capture a computer user's every keystroke. 
With a black box, they can intercept email from miles away. 
In a van parked outside, they secretly can recreate the pictures on a
computer screen from its electromagnetic energy. 
The legal limits for these new investigative tools will get a test
this week when a US federal court in New Jersey examines a mob case
in which agents, without a wiretap order, recorded a suspect's
computer keystrokes.

http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2461881%5E442,00.html
 http://technology.scmp.com/internet/ZZZQDTA5RPC.html

NECC: 'Next generation' filtering technology introduced 
BASCOM, a developer of e-curriculum filtering solutions, has
announced the "next generation" filtering technology at this week's
National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Chicago. 
 http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0106/27.filter.shtml

Commission moves to protect the young online
Moves by the European Commission, national governments and individual
projects aiming to ensure safer use of the internet among young users
have been announced, as further evidence is released showing the
importance of the internet to young people.
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=4730

Cracking the Code of Online Censorship
EVERY year the Electronic Frontier Foundation hands out its Pioneer
Awards to people who have played crucial roles in the history of
technology. Recipients have included visionaries like Ivan
Sutherland, creator of some of the first computer graphics programs;
Douglas C. Engelbart, an inventor of the mouse; and Linus Torvalds,
inventor of the popular Linux operating system.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html

New Wind in the Sails of the Censorship Crusade? 
Indecency and obscenity are in the news again. Of course, it's
difficult to recall a time when they weren't in the public eye, both
literally and figuratively. America's love-hate relationship with
pornography ranks as one of great paradoxes of this country's
history. While a deep puritanical streak runs throughout America's
history and culture, it is equally clear that Americans possess a
seemingly insatiable appetite for materials of a prurient nature.
 http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/010706-tk.html

Guide warns children of internet risks 
A charity's guidance for parents on how to ensure their children use
the internet safely is being made available in a nationwide network
of electrical stores.
 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_346817.html
 http://www.nch.org.uk/internet/

France Archived Web Content Law
France is moving toward enacting a law that would unleash Web
crawlers - sort of like Google - to constantly scour the French
Internet and collect most online content for storage in the national
archives. 
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167838.html

G8 aims to bridge 'digital divide'
The world's big eight powers endorsed an action plan on Saturday to
bridge the "digital divide" with the poorest countries.

http://europe.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/07/23/group.technology.reut/index.html

ASEAN in push to reduce digital divide
The 10 member countries of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian
Nations) group must urgently implement two information and
communication technology (ICT) initiatives to try to close the
digital divide between ASEAN countries and the developed world,
ASEAN's foreign ministers said in a declaration signed yesterday.
 http://idg.net/ic_656219_1794_9-10000.html

CDT, Internews Form Coalition To Fight Digital Divide 
U.S.- and Brussels-based media and consumer groups on Tuesday
announced the creation of the Global Internet Policy Initiative, a
foundation formed to help developing countries enact policies that
narrow the digital divide. 
 http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/10964-1.html

China's net generation
It is 2300 in a dimly lit room above a dumpling shop in an old
Shanghai side street. 
The rattle of the electric fan mixes with the clatter of keyboards.
This is one of China's many internet bars. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1455000/1455943.stm

Web confronts social issues
The rapid growth of the World Wide Web in China is helping to lift
the lid on one of its most sensitive topics gay relationships.
 http://technology.scmp.com/ZZZTSZA5RPC.html

Days of free Net lunch ending in China
The free lunch for many of China's 20 million-plus e-mail users is
ending. Internet portals in China, desperate to turn their popularity
into profits, are starting to charge for user services as online
advertising revenue proves insufficient even to pay the bills.
 http://technology.scmp.com/internet/ZZZJD6B5RPC.html

TV focuses on gambling loophole
THE federal Government's new interactive gambling law contains
loopholes that could be exploited by free-to-air and pay TV networks.

http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2450862%5E442,00.html

US closes bidding on '.us' domain
The US government closed the bidding on proposals to manage its ".us"
Internet domain on Friday despite pleas from lawmakers, computer
users and public-interest groups that the process should be given
more time.
 http://technology.scmp.com/internet/ZZZ9WK8OHPC.html

ICANN directors irate over .name email "monopoly" 
The pending contract between ICANN and the company that will control
the new .name domain, has even some ICANN directors up in arms 
A director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
has come out swinging at the Global Name Registry Ltd, operator of
the forthcoming .name top-level domain, accusing ICANN of awarding
the firm a monopoly on email services under the new domain.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2091795,00.html

Melbourne IT's profits slump 
DOMAIN name supplier Melbourne IT said today that the second half of
2001 is already showing positive signs, consistent with the company's
performance in the first half.

http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2465246%5E442,00.html


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