general internet news - 11 December

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

.uk - An amnesty for internet paedophiles?
Police are considering launching a computer hard drive
amnesty as part of a crackdown on internet sex offenders,
BBC News Online has learned.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3254382.stm
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34416.html

Thai flag on porn Website makes Thai gov't see red
A Thai woman living in Britain faces possible extradition
and imprisonment for displaying the Thai national flag on
her pornographic Web site. The Web site also described
Bangkok as a "city of sex", the Thai government complained.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39118346,00.htm

China tightly controls information
With more than 2,000 TV stations and countless newspapers,
China is flooded with information, but virtually everything
is tightly controlled by the state and the internet is also
subject to regular crackdowns.
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=5501

.tw - Technology a boost to monitoring the media
The ease of digital recording and the rapid growth in
Internet access have made it easier to keep track of what
officials and journalists say.
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=5502

An Advocacy Handbook for the Non Governmental Organisations
The Council of Europe's Cyber-Crime Convention 2001 and the
additional protocol on the criminalisation of acts of a
racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer
systems.

http://www.cyber-rights.org/cybercrime/coe_handbook_crcl.pdf

.ca - Half-naked driver faces Net charge
A half-naked man found driving on a city street was
arrested and charged with child porn offences this week in
the first Canadian case involving wireless Internet signal
piracy, police said yesterday. The bizarre case began when
a Toronto police officer spotted a motorist going the wrong
way down a one-way street in a residential neighbourhood.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2003/11/22/264890.html

Ebay takes action over child porn complaints
Ebay has taken action following allegations that its online
auction house was being used to trade in child pornography.
 http://www.theregister.com/content/6/34302.html

"Operación Global" lucha contra la pedofilia
Son varios los países de habla hispana y portuguesa los que
han dedicido juntar sus fuerzas para luchar contra la
pedofilia en Internet, concretamente España, Colombia,
Argentina, Venezuela, Perú, México, Chile y Brasil.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/107098279868007.shtml

.au - Tighter porn law pressure
TASMANIAN Senator Brian Harradine has called for tougher
filtering of internet content, warning the current opt-in
filtering regime is not working.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8102857%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

.au - NSW considering law to ban juries using net
The NSW government is considering whether to introduce new
laws forbidding juries accessing information about
defendants online.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/08/1070732118621.html

Go ahead for UN internet summit
Rich and poor countries have settled most of the key
disputes that had threatened to derail this week's United
Nations digital divide summit.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3300071.stm

Media Freedom in WSIS Proclamations
Following intense lobbying by media and civil society
groups, the declaration to be presented to the World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS) has included more
progressive clauses on freedom of expression and the role
of the media in the information society.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200312090818.html

Civil Society Angry At Being Sidelined At WSIS
Disappointed that initial promises of equal partnerships
between governments and civil societies in the WSIS
processes have been empty ones, over 300 Civil Society
Organizations (CSOs) gathered in Geneva have decided to
come up with their own separate Civil Society Declaration
to WSIS.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200312090816.html

U.S. Edges Out Finland in Info Technology Rankings
The United States edged out Finland to become the
top-ranked country for the way it uses information
technology like the Internet to speed economic development,
according to a report released on Tuesday.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3958516

Kiwis top in internet use among 32 countries
New Zealanders use the internet more than their neighbours
across the Tasman as well as 30 other countries covered by
a new international survey.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/09/1070732188959.html
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=5499

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8111945%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

China close to 78 million Web surfers
The number of Internet surfers in China is expected to hit
78 million by the end of 2003, the China Daily newspaper
says, citing a report by the Internet Society of China.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3952156

Governments are installing the Internet, but not using it
much
According to a recent United Nations study, about 91 per
cent of UN Member States are installing and using Internet
services, but "online government" has raised questions of
cost-effectiveness in developed and developing countries.
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2003/11/24.html#a344

Digital divide figures 'flawed'
The technology gap may not be as wide as was believed, a UN
body says ahead of a world digital divide summit.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3303717.stm

Report Shows IT Becoming a 'Powerful Tool' in the Fight
Against Poverty
With total coverage of 102 economies worldwide and produced
for the third consecutive year, The Global Information
Technology Report has become the world’s leading assessment
of the impact of information technology on the development
of economies. The Report is produced by the World Economic
Forum in cooperation with INSEAD and the World Bank’s
infoDev.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200312090394.html

ICT Companies Aim to Bridge the Digital Divide
Forty-four major telecommunication giants from around the
world attended a meeting hosted by the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva on Monday to
discuss the future of telecommunications.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200312090814.html

Google wants ruling on search trademark law
Aiming to pre-empt mounting complaints of trademark
violations, search company Google has asked a court to rule
on whether its keyword-advertising policy is legal.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1024-5113673.html

Chinese court sentences Internet dissident to two years
A former Chinese schoolteacher who appealed on the Internet
for free labor unions and other political reforms was
sentenced Monday to two years in prison on subversion
charges, a human rights organization said.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7442943.htm

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/08/1070732107164.html

Internet worms and critical infrastructure
COMMENTARY - Did MSBlast cause the Aug. 14 blackout? The
official analysis says "no," but I'm not so sure. A
November interim report issued by a panel of government and
industry officials concluded that the blackout was caused
by a series of failures with the chain of events starting
at FirstEnergy, a power company in Ohio. A series of human
and computer failures then turned a small problem into a
major one. And because critical alarm systems failed,
workers at FirstEnergy did not stop the cascade because
they did not know what was happening. This is where I think
MSBlast may have been involved.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20281784,00.htm

Ireland gets tough on spam
Irish Data Protection Commissioner Joe Meade is calling on
other European countries to follow his lead and get tough
on spam - despite widespread public concerns about the
effectiveness of anti-spam legislation.

http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39117226,00.htm

.us - Congress Votes to Can Spam
The House approves the first national anti-spam measure.
The legislation encourages the Federal Trade Commission to
create a do-not-spam list of e-mail addresses and includes
penalties for spammers of up to five years in prison.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,61518,00.html

http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=5693&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92

Anti-Spam Laws Too Feeble, Say Campaigners
Anti-spam crusaders are stepping up criticism of a host of
new national laws they say will do little to stop the
torrent of junk e-mail messages that promise a better sex
life and riches to share with Nigerian exiles.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3960981

Ley estadounidense de ámbito federal contra el "spam"

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/107098282037761.shtml

Tips to help cut flood of junk e-mails

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/09/reduce.spam.ap/index.html

http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/high_tech/1700/12-9-2003/20031209001502_20.html

Mafia muscles in on spam and viruses
Organised crime is moving online into spam and virus
writing - which means attacks may become less common but
more dangerous, a Russian antivirus expert has warned.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1151421

PluggedIn: SmartPhones, Handhelds May Someday Threaten
Laptops
Psst... How about a souped-up handheld computer cell-phone
combination that not only boasts a camera, surfs the Web,
does e-mail, can play digital music and has a calendar, but
also makes your toast in the morning? You can have all of
that right now.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3949202

Tablet still too hard to swallow
A YEAR after the Tablet PC promised to change the face of
computing, most users are not yet willing to swap their
keyboard for a pen.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8106224%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

.us - US: Developing the next-generation Internet
A University of Michigan professor is leading a nationwide
team to develop the next generation of the internet.
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=5391

Judge orders SCO to show Linux infringement
IBM won a tactical victory Friday in a legal battle with
SCO Group when a judge ordered SCO to show within 30 days
the Linux software to which it believes it has rights and
to point out where it believes IBM is infringing.
 http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5114689.html

http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=5697&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92

IEEE: Chinese security standard could fracture Wi-Fi
 http://wireless.itworld.com/4276/031209ieeewifi/

Kind of blue
Can porn really be acceptable? A new website thinks it can.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,1091659,00.html

.au - More people looking for love online
More and more Australians are looking for love online. The
country's internet dating websites have experienced a 93
per cent increase in use in the last year, according to
internet monitoring service Hitwise.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/10/1070732271462.html

Voyeur Web site to go dark
One of the darlings of the Web and a pioneer of electronic
exhibitionism -- Jenni of JenniCam fame -- is turning off
the lights after seven years.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3966261

http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,242018-1-454,00.html


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