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general internet news - 8 April
Nitschke criticises suicide Internet laws
Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke says he is angered
at moves by the Federal Government to charge people who
distribute information on suicide via the Internet.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s825957.htm
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200304%5CFOR20030407b.html
Libertarians struggle to reconcile security, privacy
concerns
Times couldn't be more challenging for civil libertarians
and privacy advocates as they struggle to arrest what they
consider a dangerous, rising tide of government
surveillance.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/843006p-5923363c.html
Pakistan blocks 1,800 Web sites in porn war
Pakistani authorities said Sunday they've blocked 1,800 Web
sites in a crackdown on Internet pornography in this deeply
conservative Muslim country.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/843445p-5925099c.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46343-2003Apr7.html
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=2512836
China gags SARS talk in Internet chatrooms
As rumors swirled around China over the outbreak of
atypical pneumonia, Internet chatrooms face the same gag
orders on the spread of the disease as the state-run media,
Web site managers say.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/842454p-5919649c.html
Child Porn Law Creates Catch-22
Pennsylvania's attorney general is citing laws against
distributing child pornography in refusing to identify any
of hundreds of websites his office has forced the nation's
largest Internet providers to block under a unique state
law.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58336,00.html
Porn spam--legal minefield for employers
Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon pose more than
just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against
spam--experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem
too.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-995658.html
Conservatives defend Pentagon surveillance plan
Backers of the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness
project have dismissed criticism of the plan as 'hysterical
vociferous cries' from privacy advocates.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2132904,00.html
>From Safer Internet News -
http://www.saferinternet.org/news/archive.asp
Online children's exposure to porn: two studies in two
countries
Almost simultaneously, two significant reports on
children's exposure to online pornography have been
released in the United States and Australia, the latter
having raised considerable controversy in that country -
maybe even intentionally. "Youth and Pornography in
Australia" is available at
http://www.tai.org.au/WhatsNew_Files/WhatsNew/DP52sum.pdf.
The report, which said its findings are "likely to
understate the true incidence of pornography consumption
among youth," provides explicit details on the types of
sexual activity young Internet users are being exposed to.
"The debate on pornography in Australia needs well-informed
citizens, and this includes the awareness of some of the
more disturbing material that is freely available to
children on the Internet."
The US study: "The Exposure of Youth to Unwanted Sexual
Material on the Internet", available at
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/Exposure_risk.pdf, has just
been released from the University of New Hampshire. The
effort in such analysis is to "help consumers and children
avoid intrusive exposures they do not want as opposed to
helping parents restrain children from exposures actively
sought out," the authors write, adding there's "a very
important difference" between the two in shaping public
policy. The authors also suggest important areas for
further research.
>From 1 April 2003 Swiss Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
will have to keep a log for six months of all the emails
sent by their customers
The move has been criticised by experts who say it will be
both difficult and costly to implement. Critics also argue
that loopholes in the legislation will allow criminals to
slip the net. ISPs have had over a year to comply with a
change in the law under which they will now log customer
activity, such as connection times, emails sent, addressees
and senders.
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/01switz.htm
New laws for net child porn - .au
PEOPLE who use the internet for child pornography will face
up to 10 years jail under new laws to be introduced by the
federal government, Justice and Customs Minister Chris
Ellison said today.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6236934%255E15306,00.html
Will broadband providers control Net content in the U.S.?
As the U.S.' Internet architecture moves from dial-up
access to broadband, some speakers at the Computers,
Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference in New York Thursday
expressed concern that the major cable operators that
provide the high-speed networks will control users' access
to content.
http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/DBA538C52BC6B04C48256CFE0013EEF6
Block tactics
While many nasties lurk on the internet, you can make it
considerably safer for your children.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/04/1048962927617.html
Fairness says it's time to tax goods sold online
In the months following a war, U.S. governments begin to
express concern about millions in lost tax revenues
stemming from consumer purchases from out-of-state
retailers who do not collect local sales taxes.
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035779780490&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851
UK government signs Linux deal
The public sector's online purchasing system is to be
underpinned by Linux, in a move that may provide a boost
for the open-source technology.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2133002,00.html
Watchdogs condemn discrimination against independent media
in Iraq
Media watchdog groups joined broadcasters on 3 April in
protesting against restrictions and "unacceptable
discrimination" being imposed on independent journalists
covering the war in Iraq.
http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/3882763-874?targ=1&204&OIDN=1505133
Web firm cuts al-Jazeera ties
The English language website of the Arabic news network
al-Jazeera has been left more vulnerable to hackers after a
US web delivery firm cancelled its contract with the
station.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2919465.stm
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1139984
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/technology/04WEB.html
In the Line of Fire: Al-Jazeera Is Covering the Conflict
>From Both Sides
And Both Sides Are Shooting Back: Hafez Mirazi looks a
little haggard, but that's not surprising. He's the
Washington bureau chief of al-Jazeera, the controversial
Arab TV news network, and he's had a tough couple of weeks.
First, American and British military brass denounced
al-Jazeera for showing video of coalition casualties and
POWs. Then the New York Stock Exchange responded by
ejecting al-Jazeera's financial reporters. Then the
network's English-language Web site debuted, only to be hit
by computer hackers who emblazoned "Let Freedom Ring"
across it, then knocked it out entirely.
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=4294&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92
The First Internet Conflict? Why the Web Is Too Fast for
War
I could have ignored the war completely here and written
about, say, software patch management. But that would have
felt forced, just as it would have felt forced to
sensationalize the hacking of al-Jazeera's Web site or to
create tenuous links between IT security and the war. It
appears by research and news stories that you're not doing
anything different with security since the war started. If
you are doing something different to secure your
infrastructure now, you probably weren't securing it well
in the first place. But you know that.
http://virus.idg.net/ic_1280442_9677_1-5041.html
Web Surfers Flock to Al-Jazeera
Despite repeated hacks, the website of Arab TV network
Al-Jazeera was one of the most popular Internet
destinations at the end of March, as huge numbers of U.S.
readers visit foreign sites for news on the war.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58313,00.html
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