general internet news - 21 July

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

Bill aims to curb Net censorship
Would-be Internet censors in places such as China and
Myanmar could have a tougher time restricting the free flow
of information, according to a measure that the U.S. House
of Representatives approved on Wednesday.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-1026690.html

Asia-Pacific countries fight 'cybercriminals'
A meeting of Asia-Pacific governments in Thailand next week
will tackle computer-crime issues.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2137821,00.html

Piracy linked to terrorism
The head of Interpol called on Wednesday for a global
crackdown on software and music piracy, saying the illicit
proceeds help finance al-Qaida, Hezbollah and other
terrorist networks.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1388359,00.html

French Neo-Nazis, Jews Unite in Web Hate - Report
French neo-Nazis formed an alliance with extremist Jewish
groups on the Internet to publish a torrent of hate
messages directed against Arabs and Muslims, according to a
report by a leading anti-racist group.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=3108194
 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59662,00.html

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1058518801307B216&set_id=1

Web sting links Hamza to terror camps
A SOPHISTICATED internet sting has provided fresh evidence
linking Abu Hamza, the British radical Islamic cleric, to
terror camps, claim anti-terrorist police.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-750685,00.html

Router bug threatens 'internet backbone'
A critical software bug affecting many key internet routers
could be used to derail net traffic, computer experts have
warned.
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993955

Porn Sites May Stream No More
Acacia Media Technologies, a company that claims to have a
patent on streaming video, declared a major legal victory
Wednesday against several Internet pornographers it says
are infringing on its intellectual property.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59666,00.html

Lure of the chatroom
Shevaun Pennington, the 12-year-old who ran off with a man
she met on the web, is hardly alone in chatting to an older
man on the internet.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3073603.stm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-750877,00.html

Tales from the chatroom
On the internet, you can assume any identity you like, as
Shevaun Pennington and Toby Studabaker's liaison has
highlighted. But is all online chat dangerous, or is most
of it just plain boring? Paul Vallely logs on to a
distinctly murky world.

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=424991

'Ban teens from chatrooms'
Children should be kept out of chat rooms, argues
technology analyst Bill Thompson.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3077003.stm

Chatroom 'grooming' set to be a criminal offence
'Internet grooming' is likely to become a criminal offence
as draft legislation gained support from MPs in the Commons
yesterday.
 http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/view.asp?id=3554

Who is your child chatting to?
Shevaun Pennington's parents warned her about the internet,
yet their worst nightmare still came true.
 http://www.news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=781982003

A worm's eye view
Shevaun Pennington was not even born when Tim Berners-Lee
put up the world's first web server. To reach it, one typed
"telnet info.cern.ch" into a console window, and got a
numbered, text menu leading to some servers of interest to
high energy physicists. If the gateway to Narnia was a
wardrobe, this looked more like a half empty steel file
cabinet in a deserted office. Who could have guessed that
this, too, would lead to a new and magical world in which
everyone seemed to make perfect sense to a child?
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/wormseyeview

.au - ABA chairman says new mobile phones open
opportunities for paedophiles
Children carrying new-generation mobile phones would be
open to the advances of paedophiles, according to the
chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA),
David Flint.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/18/1058035188980.html
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s904735.htm

Iran keeps an eye on the bloggers
Iranian authorities are keeping a close eye on the Internet
amid growing online access and the popularity of weblogs.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/16/iran.blogs/index.html

Bill would jail Internet song swappers
Internet users who allow others to copy songs from their
hard drives could face prison time under legislation
introduced by two Democratic lawmakers.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/17/music.internet.reut/index.html

Young unfazed by piracy: ARIA
THE music industry has fired a statistical salvo to stem
the tide of file-sharing and CD burning, releasing
"disturbing" figures that show many young people are
unaware music piracy is illegal.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6761710%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

Mozilla Wants to Rumble With IE
Microsoft's Internet Explorer might have trounced the likes
of Netscape Navigator, but the folks at Mozilla.org insist
the browser wars aren't over.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59640,00.html

Cops want more info on online gay cannibalism
German prosecutors are broadening a murder investigation to
include 430 people who were allegedly involved in the
Internet gay cannibalism chat room that led to the death of
a 42-year-old gay man in March 2001.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1058442301327B265&set_id=1

.za - Government to Ensure Equal Access to Modern
Communication Technology
Government will continue to advance the objective of
universal service to enable ordinary people to access
modern communication technology, says communications
minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200307160411.html

.au - Police seek more cyber muscle
The Australian Crime Commission is seeking greater powers
for police and other agencies to identify and prosecute
computer criminals as part of a national crackdown on
cybercrime.
 http://afr.com/articles/2003/07/18/1058035197739.html

.au - University files to be searched in music stoush
Three universities lost the latest stage of their
long-running stoush with the music industry on Friday when
the Federal Court ruled they must hand over computer
records that could identify students suspected of swapping
illegal music files on the internet.
 http://afr.com/articles/2003/07/18/1058035199641.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3070657.stm

Thai gamers work around curfew
Thailand's online gamers are finding other ways to amuse
themselves at night, after the Thai government began
turning game servers off at 10 p.m.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2137812,00.html

Writing to the President, Now at Easiertofind.com
The White House Web site began more prominently featuring
the president's e-mail address yesterday.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/19/technology/19MAIL.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3076749.stm

Welcome to the 'new' Web, same as the 'old' Web
Do you remember the day you first surfed the Web, stretched
out your arms over the vastness of cyberspace, teleported
from site to site with an almost exhilarating power? Or
alternately, sat waiting for "fat" pages to load? Well,
hang on to your hats boys and girls, because your
experience of the World Wide Web is about to change,
possibly for the first time since Mosaic, one of the first
graphical browsers, was unleashed in 1993 from
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/07/14/hln.hot.buzz.new.web/index.html

Internet advertising
Yahoo!'s latest acquisition shows where online marketing is
going

http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1932434

France bans the word 'e-mail'
France puts its foot down over English tech-speak, banning
the use of the word "e-mail" in all official correspondence
in favor of a more homegrown term.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-1027357.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59674,00.html

Twin flaws threaten Net
Two unrelated security holes in Microsoft Windows and
Cisco's routers leave the Internet wide open to potentially
crippling attacks.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2137767,00.html

Dismay over passage of official secrets legislation
Reporters Without Borders today said it was appalled by
parliament's approval on 9 July of a law authorising the
intelligence services to arrest journalists, raid their
homes and practice body searches on them if they are
suspected of wanting to reveal official secrets.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7566

Criminal code amendments and planned press law changes deal
a blow to press freedom
Reporters Without Borders today condemned newly adopted
amendments to the criminal code and proposed changes to the
press law, saying they would hamper access to official
information, limit the possibility of criticising public
figures and make it easier to prosecute journalists,
thereby encouraging self-censorship.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7564

Manufacturers want masses to swallow tablet PC
The tablet PC is going downmarket, with consumer versions
set to go on sale worldwide
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2137749,00.html

And a useless technological innovation...
'Cat-language' translator for Japan
A JAPANESE company is set to launch a device in November
that translates cats' meows into human speech, following
the smash-hit dog-language electronic interpreter
Bowlingual.
 http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6765738%5e16681%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

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