general internet news - 29 April

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

Surveillance Nation—Part Two 
In pursuit of security and service, we are submitting
ourselves to a proliferation of monitoring technologies.
But a loss of privacy is not inevitable.
 http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/farmer0503.asp

ISPs Up the Ante in Spam Fight
Internet service providers are employing a new arsenal of
tools in the battle against spam. But filtering out junk
mail without deleting messages from legitimate e-mail
marketers remains a challenge.
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58618,00.html

E-Mail Service Providers Unite in Bid to Stop Spam
Three leading providers of electronic mail accounts said
they have started to work together to develop ways to
reduce the unwanted commercial messages, or spam.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/technology/28AOL.html

Online security: for the new trust-e
Despite the headlines, electronic commerce is far from
finished. It is just starting. It remains central to the
OECD’s vision of a networked world and the potential it
holds for economic growth, job creation, increased world
trade and improved social conditions. And improving trust
is central to developing e-commerce. Consumers and
businesses need to know that their use of network services
is secure and reliable, whether a company is tendering for
an overseas contract by e-mail or an individual is ordering
an organic free-range turkey for Sunday lunch.
The OECD has been working in this area of trust since the
information economy was in its infancy and produced its
first Security Guidelines for Information Systems a decade
ago. But information and communications technology (ICT)
has changed substantially since then. That is why the 1992
Security Guidelines were updated in 2002 to take account of
the latest developments in the online world. A review every
five years has been recommended by the OECD.
 http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/875

Korea Ranks 2nd in Harmful Web Sites
South Korea has the second largest number of harmful Web
sites in the world after the United States, a report
release yesterday found.
About 675,000 Internet sites worldwide are now estimated to
contain material detrimental to the public, according to
the report based on an analysis by an Internet filtering
program offered by fixed-line operator KT. The software,
called Clean-I, shields children from online pornography
and other harmful material on the Web. 

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200304/kt2003042717394012350.htm

SAFT: Nordic parents worry about Internet porn - from
http://www.saferinternet.org/news/index.asp
(Project news) Nordic parents’ biggest concern regarding
their children’s Internet use, is the risk of being exposed
to pornography. Leader of the SAFT project, Elisabeth
Staksrud, states that lack of competence makes parents
overlook more serious dangers. The SAFT Project is an
Internet Safety Awareness project supported by the EU`s
Internet Action Plan. The project has conducted an
extensive comparative survey in Denmark, Iceland, Norway
and Sweden about parents knowledge of childrens use of the
Internet. The survey shows that parents in these countries
are concerned with Internet Safety but lack necessary
knowledge about the Internet itself.
 http://www.saferinternet.org/downloads/SAFT-survey.doc

Online ID scheme to target paedophiles
An electronic age verification scheme designed to crack
down on paedophiles who use the internet to groom child
victims was launched today by the UK's largest photo ID
card scheme, CitizenCard.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,941955,00.html

Europe gets new game rating system
A new pan-European age rating system for computer and video
games is to be introduced to help protect kids from
unsuitable content.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30382.html

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=gamesratingsystem1051266538&area=news

Countries meet to tackle cyber-crime
TWENTY eight countries including Hungary signed the First
International Convention on Cyber-Crime during a conference
in Budapest organized by the Council of Europe.

http://www.budapestsun.com/full_story.asp?ArticleId=%7B8E0FC52461F74571BA225C3866C345CC%7D&From=News

Nine UK doctors are suspended after accusations of viewing
child pornography
Nine doctors in the United Kingdom have been suspended by
their NHS trusts after accusations that they downloaded
pornographic pictures of children from the internet. 
 http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7394/840/c

Trojan defence clears man on child porn charges
A man was cleared of possession of child porn this week
after experts testified that a Trojan horse infection on
his PC could have downloaded 14 depraved images without his
knowledge.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/30385.html

Descubierta en Alemania una nueva red de pedofilia en
Internet
La policía alemana ha anunciado el descubrimiento de una
nueva red de pedofilia en Internet, tras la investigación
llevada a cabo en 137 domicilios de todo el país. En las
operaciones llevadas a cabo se han incautado 95 ordenadores
y 158 personas han sido investigadas, de las que 20 de
ellas ya eran conocidas por los servicios policiales.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/105091635189150.shtml

Is Amazon.com no place for kids?
Amazon.com has taken insufficient steps to prevent children
from posting personal information on its Web site,
potentially endangering their privacy, a collection of
advocacy groups said Tuesday.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1019-997893.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13246-2003Apr22.html
 http://www.epic.org/privacy/amazon/coppacomplaint.html

New technologies face legal headaches
Companies face a host of legal land mines that they need to
consider when developing emerging technology, lawyers at
the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference told developers
Tuesday. The lawyers said companies are increasingly
wielding patent and copyright laws such as the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to thwart competitors and
maintain their market share. As a result, the lawyers said,
we're heading toward a world where companies increasingly
need to consider the legal ramifications of their products.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028-997871.html

Judge rules file-sharing tools are legal
A US federal judge has reversed many of the recording
industry's previous victories over peer-to-peer services,
comparing Morpheus and Grokster software to VCRs and
photocopy machines.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2133938,00.html

Ruling means dark days for P2P users?
A US judge has ruled that file swapping software is legal,
but this means the music and film industries will be
targeting individual file traders.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2133952,00.html

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2633909

http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/030425_order_on_motions.php

Online Anonymity Comes Under Fire
Verizon's loss in a court battle to keep an ISP customer's
identity out of the music industry's hands will make it
harder for people to stay anonymous online, privacy
advocates say.
 http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,58633,00.html

Cracking computer security 
You don't have to be clever to crack the computer security
of most British companies: all you have to do is stand on
Waterloo station handing out cheap pens. In a recent survey
into office scruples, 95% of male and 85% of female office
workers were happy to tell a stranger their password.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,941794,00.html

Sex vs email 
I have found that in this day and age, people are more
willing to spend a couple of days without sex than without
email. It's strange, not to mention unbelievable, but
that's exactly what I've been hearing from my friends.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/230403_Database/23Apr2003_datacol52.html

Lufthansa to fly with Web access
Lufthansa German Airlines sees "no reason whatsoever" to
ground its plans for high-speed Web access on planes. Trial
runs show the technology is taking off, sources say.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-998282.html

Piracy arrests 'first in world'
The arrest of three men in Sydney last week for criminal
charges relating to online music piracy has been described
as the first prosecution of its kind.
 http://afr.com/it/2003/04/28/FFXTKY2XZED.html

Can Alston put a lid on spam?  
The decision of the Australian Minister for Communications,
Richard Alston, to push for laws making it illegal to send
unsolicited "spam" email has the staff here at This digital
life nodding our heads in full agreement with the great
man, and wondering, are we going soft in our old age?
 http://afr.com/premium/it/2003/04/22/FFXOLMFCRED.html

What's inside Saddam's mailbox?
What do Kofi Annan, Fidel Castro, a New York jazz artist
and an Austrian watch collector have in common? All of them
sent mail to deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, whose
mailbox contained official correspondence from the world's
leaders - and fan mail from some of the world's weirdos.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=iol1051348606778M423&set_id=1

Monster pulls resumes based on US sanctions list
After a routine internal review of its legal
responsibilities, online job-search vendor Monster Thursday
deleted job postings and client resumes for residents in
seven countries listed by the U.S. government as sanctioned
nations with whom trade is illegal.

http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/B950FD882458F4EBCC256D160018108F!opendocument

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