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general internet news - 11 April
High court tackles Web lottery; music to come
While the public's attention has understandably been
occupied with other events, the Canadian Supreme Court has
recently been active on the technology law front.
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035780540657&call_pageid=971794782442&col=971886476975
Internet Fraud Complaints Triple in 2002
Fraud on the Internet rose sharply in 2002, with the FBI
reporting more than 48,000 complaints referred to
prosecutors - triple the number of the year before.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/high_tech/1700/4-9-2003/20030409121504_26.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-996270.html
http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/strategy/2002_IFCCReport.pdf
Internet security worries on rise
As war rages in Iraq, computer technicians are waging a
battle of their own in cyberspace. The real-world conflict
has stoked some high-profile vandalism online as
Internet-savvy activists disrupt Web sites to post their
views on war. Among the targets: a U.S. Navy Web site, the
al-Jazeera English language site and even the N.C.
secretary of state's site -- twice.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/848023p-5950620c.html
Child pornography bill unearths deeper concerns
Oklahoma lawmakers expressed reservations Tuesday over
legislation that supporters said will help stop the
distribution of child pornography over the Internet.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-09-porn-bill_x.htm
Google filter blocks innocuous sites
Children using Google's SafeSearch feature, which was
designed to filter adult Web sites, may be shielded from
far more than their parents ever intended.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20273597,00.htm
Librarians Make Some Noise Over Patriot Act
Every public computer inside this city's library has a new
warning taped to its screen. Beware, the message says,
anything you read is now subject to secret scrutiny by
federal agents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1481-2003Apr9.html
German police swoop on Internet pornography ring
German police have in the past week raided the homes and
offices of 187 people across the country in a probe into
the spread of child pornography on the Internet officials
confirmed.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030407/1/39vad.html
GIO aims to rate Web sites (Taiwan)
Internet portals, Internet service providers along with the
government are working on an online content rating system
to protect the youth from browsing inappropriate content, a
government official said yesterday.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2003/04/01/200439
Ruling Backs Anti-Spam Activist
An Internet site that provides personal information about
an alleged purveyor of mass e-mail is not harassment and
does not need to be removed, a Maryland district court
judge ruled yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51721-2003Apr7.html
Pseudonymous Opinions on Websites to be Banned (Korea)
Those posting individual opinions on government and public
organizations' Internet sites are to be required to use
their real names, and all new personal computers are to
have a computer virus vaccine installed before marketing.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200303/200303280011.html
New laws for net child porn
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://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6236934%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
http://www.law.gov.au/www/justiceministerHome.nsf/Alldocs/C79B4269BE79C65BCA256CFE00114559
Internet via the Power Grid: New Interest in Obvious Idea
The idea of sending Internet data over ordinary electric
power lines is getting sudden attention in response to
several trial efforts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/technology/10POWE.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/847459p-5948445c.html
ACLU loses digital copyright battle
The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday lost its
first attempt to challenge a controversial 1998 copyright
law.
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-996245.html
PanAfrica: ICTs in Africa Require Effective Use of Old, New
Media
The development of Information Communication Technology
(ICTs) in Africa must inevitably include programmes and
actions dedicated to making more effective use of old as
well as new media.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200304080150.html
The demise of one of my regular news suppliers is about to
close...
Nando Times to close up shop
One of the very first news sites on the internet, the Nando
Times, launched in the spring of 1994, is to be no more.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15779
Wi-Fi wireless networking has been a great success over the
past two years, but no technology is without problems, and
Wi-Fi has a couple that could trap the unwary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,932880,00.html
The Wi-Fi Revolution
We stand at the brink of a transformation. It is a moment
that echoes the birth of the Internet in the mid-'70s, when
the radical pioneers of computer networking - machines
talking to each other! - hijacked the telephone system with
their first digital hellos. Or that jaw-dropper a decade
later when the FCC official whose job it was to track the
growth of communications networks suddenly realized that
his neat tabulation of local and long-distance had been
made moot by the unforeseen rise of local-area networks: an
unregulated, unmonitored, uncontrollable phenomenon of the
upstart PC industry that would soon shake the telecom
world. Or the arrival of the Web browser, which blew
millions of minds, making a mouseclick feel like
teleportation.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/unwired/wifirevolution.html
Wireless Really Goes to Work
In hospitals, at conferences, on farms and at theme parks,
people are putting wireless technology to work in
unprecedented ways.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/unwired/work.html
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