general internet news - 27 November

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

Porn Trojan floods inboxes worldwide
Hundreds of reports are coming in of a new Trojan spreading
around the globe by posing as home made pornographic
pictures.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1150284

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/26/1069522642407.html

When Free Isn't Really Free
FREE. Is there any sweeter word? Its promise of something
for nothing, and its underlying connotation of liberation,
put a spring in the step and make the world seem a better
place. But lately, free isn't what it used to be,
especially on the Internet, whose very history and
technology are based on the notion that information and
pretty much everything else online want to be free. Web
giveaways increasingly come at a steep price, in the form
of computer glitches, frustration and loss of privacy and
security - not to mention the threat of expensive lawsuits
for large-scale music downloaders.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/business/yourmoney/23free.html

.au - Govt website provides safe surfing guidelines
The Federal Department of Information Technology,
Communication and the Arts has provided information on safe
surfing and protecting children from offensive material
online at the the redeveloped NetAlert website
<http://www.netalert.net.au>, a media release says.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/26/1069522660236.html

.au - Net 'spawns sex predators'
Internet pornography was helping to spawn a new generation
of sexual predators as young as six, child protection
experts have warned.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/25/1069522606196.html

.au - Internet linked to kids' sexual aggression
The popularity of the Internet has been blamed for growing
numbers of very young, sexually aggressive children.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s997219.htm

.au - Content providers warned to remove prohibited
material
Internet content providers have been warned to remove
illegal material on the same day as a study highlighting a
link between children's exposure to net porn and sexual
violence was released.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/27/1069825880839.html

Amnesty accuses Vietnam of silencing online dissent
Amnesty International accused the Vietnamese government of
using national security as a pretext to silence
cyber-dissidents and stifle freedom of expression on the
Internet.
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031126/323/eeyk6.html

Viet Nam: Rights denied in cyberspace (news release)
At least 10 people in Viet Nam have been arrested and some
sentenced to long prison terms for using the Internet
whilst criticising the government or sharing information
with overseas Vietnamese groups. Amnesty International
today criticized the Vietnamese government for using
national security as a pretext to stifle freedom of
expression and other human rights in cyberspace.
 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA410402003

Chinese man tried for online subversion in Shanghai
An unemployed man was tried for "incitement to subvert the
state" after he published an article on the Internet
accusing China's ruling communist party of corruption, a
human rights group said.
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031126/323/eez5k.html

Internet Loosening Media Control in China
China's government has long controlled the information its
citizens receive through official media, but that may end
as the Internet burrows deeper into the fast-changing
communist country, a Chinese Internet expert says.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7319207.htm

.de - Muskelspiele im deutschen Online-Jugendschutz
Die Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz droht erste Verfahren
gegen Pornoanbieter an. Sie habe bei verschiedenen
geprüften Internet-Angeboten "erhebliche Verstöße gegen die
Bestimmungen des Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrags (JMStV)
festgestellt", heißt es in einer Mitteilung. Demnach will
die Kommission vor allem Angebote abmahnen, die keine
ausreichende Altersverifikation vorschalten. Die KJM
fordert eine persönliche Authentifizierung. In einem Fall
wirft sie einem Anbieter vor, Jugendliche in "unnatürlich
geschlechtsbetonter Körperhaltung" darzustellen. Zu einer
Stellungnahme war die KJM nicht bereit.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-18.11.03-004
 http://www.alm.de/gem_stellen/presse_kjm/pm/141103.htm
(news release)
English translation courtesty of saferinternet.org:
The German commission for the protection of minors in the
media is about to prosecute several adult content
providers. A recent press release states that several of
the websites the commission has investigated infringe
existing laws and regulations for the protection of minors
online. Action will focus primarily on sites that do not
require conclusive age validation, but will also request
that access to these sites be based on personal
authentication. In one case, the commission has found that
minors are depicted in oversexualised positions.
 http://www.saferinternet.org/news/index.asp

Nigeria to tackle internet fraud
President Obasanjo vows to combat the scam where people are
promised a share in non-existent riches.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3241710.stm
 http://afr.com/articles/2003/11/27/1069825870334.html

.us - # 125 Ciber-criminales arrestados en Estados Unidos
Estados Unidos ha unido todas sus fuerzas legislativas para
llevar a cabo uno de los arrestos colectivos más
espectaculares relacionados con delitos perpetrados a
través de Internet y las nuevas tecnologías. Más de un
centenar de personas han sido arrestadas bajo las
acusaciones de robo de identidad, estafa, spamming,
falsificación, violación de la seguridad de sistemas y
piratería.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/106976418331232.shtml

.au - Privacy commissioner slams music enforcers, cautions
on DRM
Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcom Crompton has attacked
the tactics of the music antipiracy lobby, saying that
those who ride roughshod over privacy in the hunt for
pirates occupy the same moral ground as those they seek to
have jailed.
 http://pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php?id=1749605766

AOL blocked by ISP in United Arab Emirates
The AOL website has been blocked by Etisalat, the
government-owned ISP in the United Arab Emirates, as it was
advertising a proxy tunnelling service, according to a
report in the Gulf News, an English daily published from
Dubai.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/26/1069522647416.html

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=103693

.us - Antispam Bill Passes Senate by Voice Vote
The Senate passed a bill to curb junk commercial e-mail by
voice vote, bringing national regulations on spam closer to
reality.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/26/technology/26spam.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13540-2003Nov25.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3238476.stm

.us - Congress Fails to Act on Internet Tax Ban
A federal ban on Internet access taxes will not come up for
renewal until sometime next year after the U.S. Senate
failed to reach an agreement on the specifics of how it
will be extended, congressional sources said today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13759-2003Nov25.html

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-nettax26nov26,1,148403.story

Online casinos illegal in NZ, warns Internal Affairs
At least one New Zealander has paid $25,000 for a casino
franchise which appears to be illegal, the Department of
Internal Affairs said today.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2738234a28,00.html

South Africans do it digitally
Hungarians have more sexual encounters than the rest of the
planet's population, while Aussies are more likely to fake
orgasms. And South Africans? We have lots of electronic
sex, an online survey has revealed.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1069758180525B236

.zw - Fourteen Arrested for Circulating E-Mail Message
Criticising Mugabe
Reporters Without Borders today urged the Zimbabwean
authorities to drop charges against 14 people who were
arrested for circulating an e-mail message criticising
President Mugabe's economic policies and calling for his
departure. They were all released on bail but have been
ordered to appear in court on 26 November.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200311240754.html

Jackson sets up website to proclaim his innocence
Michael Jackson, who faces criminal charges and a possible
trial for alleged molestation of a 12-year-old boy at his
Neverland ranch, set up a special website yesterday to
proclaim his innocence and provide a direct line of
communication to his fans.

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=467011

.nz - Internet cafes in council's firing line
Auckland City Council plans a crackdown on internet cafes
in response to worries that some are gaming hangouts for
youths.
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3535942

Master/Slave discriminates, says Los Angeles
Los Angeles County has asked suppliers to stop using the IT
jargon 'master/slave,' deeming politically incorrect a term
which is commonly used to describe the engineering process
by which one device controls one or many other devices.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=masterslavediscrim1069860289

.au -  ARIA to sue net services
THE Australian Recording Industry Association plans to sue
Internet service providers who failed to stop consumers
illegally downloading music.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7971853%255E462,00.html

Lawyer Rips SCO Facts in Linux Brouhaha
The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) Monday published its
third position paper on the controversial SCO-Linux war,
attacking SCO's legal claims to the open-source operating
system.
 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3112931

Linux proves a winner Down Under
A recent survey in Australia and New Zealand has found that
the use of Linux on servers has grown dramatically, but its
share of the desktop market is still very small.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39118118,00.htm

.ie - Massive rise in business use of e-mail and web
COMPUTERS, internet and e-mail have revolutionised the way
Irish companies do their business with a high take-up of
these technologies across all sectors.

http://www.unison.ie/business/stories.php3?ca=147&si=1083496

RP still a pre-paid, SMS-driven market
THE PHILIPPINE market is largely a pre-paid and
"text-driven" market where mobile phone subscribers come
from relatively low-income brackets, a local operator said
during the second annual IT forum of the IT Journalist
Association of the Philippines.
 http://www.inq7.net/inf/2003/nov/27/inf_1-1.htm

EVDs to replace DVDs?
China, the world's biggest maker of digital versatile disc
players, has announced that it is looking to create its
next-generation rival: the enhanced versatile disc.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1069149241858B232

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