general internet news - 5 March

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

us: Supreme Court revisits arguments in online pornography
case
Ordinarily, US Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson prepares
for an appearance before the Supreme Court by acting out
his argument before a pretend court. This time, for a case
about the Internet, he added a new twist: searching online
for free porn.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/03/03/supreme_court_revisits_arguments_in_online_pornography_case/

us: Justices Hear Arguments on Internet Pornography Law
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday about
Internet pornography, one of the most vexing issues at the
intersection of technology and First Amendment rights.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/03/politics/03SCOT.html
 http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8088842.htm

http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/1171929p-8113830c.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/02/online.smut/index.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-03-03-net-porn_x.htm
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=6351

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24683-2004Mar2.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5168606.html

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-scotus3mar03,1,543912.story

us: ACLJ: Supreme Court Must Uphold Constitutionality of
Child Online Protection Act
The American Center for Law and Justice, an international
public interest law firm, said today the U.S. Supreme Court
has an important opportunity to clear the way to protect
children from online pornography by upholding the
constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act
(COPA). The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in the
case of Ashcroft v. ACLU and the ACLJ supported the
position of the Department of Justice asking the high court
to overturn an appeals court decision declaring the law
unconstitutional.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/altavista/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20040302005681&newsLang=en&beanID=944193898&viewID=news_view

us: FBI unveils program to target child pornographers
FBI cybercrime officials Wednesday formally announced a
program in which agents go after suspected producers of
child pornography by obtaining "John Doe" arrest warrants
and releasing the suspects' photographs or videos to the
public.
 http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/03/fbi.porn/index.html
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=6360

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-porn4mar04,1,3192847.story

us: Web porn, minors, and free speech
Six years ago, Congress passed the Child Online Protection
Act to shield children from an explosion of sexually
explicit material on the Internet.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0302/p01s04-usju.html

Child sex abuse back in focus
The "trial of the century" of four people in Belgium on
child kidnapping, abuse and murder charges has once again
focused attention on child sex abuse and worldwide child
pornography rings.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/02/child.porn/index.html

au: Investigations continue into online paedophile ring
The Australian High Tech Crime Centre says it is committed
to pursuing an international web-based paedophile ring
following arrests made yesterday.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/qld/200402/s1054683.htm

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/2/27/latest/16168Aussiepol
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/02/1078117398678.html

Switzerland cracks down on cybercrime
Fighting cybercrime has become a priority for the Swiss
police. Switzerland has been turning up the heat on
cybercrime since January this year when the government
launched a special unit to police the internet.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=4468889

uk: Five years for UK man who downloaded child porn
An accounts clerk who downloaded Britain's largest known
child pornography collection off the internet was yesterday
jailed for five years after a trial in the city of Lincoln.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/03/1078191360537.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35982.html

us: 'John Doe' warrants target child porn
Two men whose mug shots were cropped from alleged online
child pornography have been charged with that crime, the
FBI said in Washington Wednesday.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040303-012611-4335r.htm
 http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11061355

us: Man arrested for child porn
A second case in recent days of possessing child
pornography from the Internet has resulted in the arrest of
a Gibson man, Painted Post State Police report.

http://www.the-leader.com/articles/2004/03/04/local_news/local00.txt

us: EDH man suspected of molesting baby
A federal chat room sting netted a man who allegedly
videotaped himself sexually assaulting an infant girl.

http://www.mtdemocrat.com/articles/2004/03/03/news_stories/s0303_n4.txt

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=22&art_id=qw1078213141741B224&set_id=1

Special Report: Protecting kids from online harm
Advances in technology are there for the common good, and
the Internet has changed the way most of us live, hopefully
for the better.

http://www.emedia.com.my/TECH/BizComp/NewsAnalysis/20040304092451/wartrevamp

au: Racist police email blasted as 'filth and disgust'
Senior NSW police apologised today for an email containing
racist slurs against Aboriginal people which was found
circulating in stations in the state's west.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/04/1078295501188.html

au: See no evil: email boob lands the blind in a bind (sub
req'd)
The Royal Blind Society has disciplined a group of
employees for looking at photos of Janet Jackson's left
breast on workplace emails - even though some are visually
impaired. 

http://afr.com/premium/articles/2004/03/03/1078295447510.html

au: Defence porn scandal
Fourteen Defence Department public servants could be
sacked, fined or demoted if found guilty of downloading and
sending pornography from their office computers.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8829569%5E15330%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html

Malaysian cyberlaws need to keep up
Despite being among the first countries in the world to
introduce cyberlaws, Malaysia cannot afford to remain at a
standstill.

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/3/4/technology/7448066&sec=technology

cn: Reporters Without Borders concerned about health of
cyberdissident He Depu
The health of cyberdissident He Depu has seriously
deteriorated as a result of ill-treatment in jail, his wife
Jia Jianying said. Reporters Without Borders called on the
Chinese authorities to transfer him to hospital and provide
him with appropriate care.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8475
Reporters sans frontières s'inquiète de l'état de santé du
cyberdissident He Depu
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8476
Reporteros sin Fronteras está preocupada por el estado de
salud del ciberdisidente He Depu
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8477

ca: Coming to a computer near you – an R-rated game
Ontario slaps the rating on the violent video game Manhunt.

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040303.wvideogame0303/BNStory/National

UN urges stand on internet drugs
Governments should do more to crack down on the illicit
trade in controlled drugs over the internet, according to a
new report by a UN organisation.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3527779.stm

The key to spam-free inboxes
Efforts to cut junk e-mail aren't working. Will a 'sender
authentication' scheme halt the flood?

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=497201

au: Uni advises students to uninstall Kazaa
A Sydney-based university was yesterday advising students
to uninstall a version of Sharman Networks' controversial
file sharing software Kazaa.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39116429,00.htm

au: Sharman fails in court bid to have evidence dismissed
Sharman Networks, an Internet software provider, has failed
in its application to have evidence against it dismissed,
forcing the company to face up to the music copyright
infringement charges over its P2P music file sharing
software Kazaa.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39116440,00.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29084-2004Mar4.html
 http://afr.com/articles/2004/03/04/1078376833049.html

au: Kazaa case: search orders ruled valid
The Australian Federal Court has dismissed the application
lodged by Sharman Networks, the owner of the Kazaa
peer-to-peer software, challenging the validity of the
court orders which resulted in raids on several premises in
February.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/04/1078376833694.html

us: Employees Still Swapping Files at Work-Survey
Employees are still swapping music and other files on
peer-to-peer applications at work despite the legal threat
from the record industry, a survey released on Wednesday
said.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4492331

Groups to intervene in music case
Two public-interest groups were given the right yesterday
to intervene in a landmark music-piracy case that has the
potential to weaken privacy rights in Canada.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1078182610308&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

eu: Online music barriers begin to fall in Europe
Legal and commercial fragmentation has been slowing the
advance of the online music business in Europe.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/508672.html

THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK - UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO COMPUTER
SYSTEMS: PENAL LEGISLATION IN 44 COUNTRIES
I. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS: The first comprehensive
proposal for computer crime legislation was a federal Bill
introduced in the US Congress by Senator Ribikoff in 1977.
The Bill was not adopted, but this pioneer proposal created
an awareness all around the world.
 http://www.mosstingrett.no/info/legal.html

Big brother is always watching
Can you keep a secret? Not if you're running the UN.
Members of your Security Council, feeling insecure about
your behaviour, will bug your offices. But you mustn't
laugh and you mustn't cry. The best you can do is ask them,
very nicely, to stop.
...
So make no mistake. Your personal emails are being read
before you can open them. Can you keep a secret? I don't
suppose you can. I recently attended an international
conference of privacy commissioners, hundreds of them, from
across the world. Although some of them were still urging
their respective governments to pass privacy laws, most
conceded that the battle is lost. Just as sexual censorship
is impotent in the face of all-at-once, show-and-tell
technologies, the notion of secrecy is becoming
anachronistic. Like it or not, transparency applies to your
life. Only the machinations of our governments remain
opaque.

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8837567%255E12272,00.html

Disposable cameras
We can't trust photographs. In fact, we never could. In an
exclusive interview, David Hockney tells why painting
creates a more reliable record of the truth.
...
Then Hockney read an interview in the Guardian with a man
who spent two years in prison for downloading images from
the internet. The man claimed he did not think the pictures
were wrong, but innocent and beautiful. "This man who, from
human curiosity, looking for innocence and beauty, gets
some pictures from the internet and does two years in
prison for that. Why don't you art critics talk about
that?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1161451,00.html
 
us: Senators: Hands Off Kids' Data
Congress considers a bill that would make it illegal for
marketers to trade information about anyone under 16.
Companies would not be able to buy and sell data about
children without their parents' consent.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62522,00.html

au: Latest phishing scam most "devious" ever
An email attempting to trick Australian online-banking
customers into divulging their details has been labelled
the most 'devious' example that an antivirus vendor has
encountered.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39116416,00.htm

Yahoo to Charge for Guaranteeing a Spot on Its Index
Yahoo said that it would start charging companies that want
to ensure that their Web sites are included in its Web
index.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/business/02net.html

Study: Blogging Still Infrequent
Despite the potential of turning every Internet user into a
publisher, relatively few have created Web journals called
blogs and even fewer do so with regularity, a new study
finds.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=6328

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/01/internet.blogs.ap/index.html

Teachers fight against Internet plagiarism
For students who wait till the last minute to start their
term papers, plagiarism today doesn't even require cracking
open an encyclopedia.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0302/p12s01-legn.html

OPINION: GESAC, SCD, FUST, XPTO … and digital inclusion?
Carlos Afonso, director of planning at RITS -APC's
Brazilian member organisation-, outlines the digital
inclusion opportunities and initiatives carried out in
Brazil so far, from the successful ones to the dismal
failures. According to Afonso, despite the flurry of
acronyms being thrown around, Brazil still does not have a
national strategy that will provide the majority of
Brazilians with access to the internet. He believe it's
crucial that the Brazilan government gets involved in the
set-up of community telecentres and computers in schools
and public libraries – the cheapest and most efficient way
of democratising access to information and communication
technologies.
 http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=17784

New bill aims to shine light on spyware
If you've ever wondered how software got on your computer,
and spent even more time wondering how to get it off,
chances are you've encountered spyware.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/03/03/hln.wired.spyware/index.html

jp: Cases of illegal computer access jump 40%
Police across Japan in 2003 broke a record 145 cases of
suspected violations of a law banning illegal access to
computer networks, the National Police Agency (NPA) said in
a report released Thursday.
 http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=290518

ICTs in Support of South American Competitiveness and
Integration
The Inter-American Development Bank has published a new 
report entitled Information and Communication Technologies
in Support of South American Competitiveness and
Integration - Action Plan.
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2004/03/04.html#a504
 http://www.iadb.org/regions/re3/pdf/IIRSA0204.pdf

War of the worms breaks out in cyberspace
An intense rivalry between authors of different computer
viruses is going on in cyberspace, increasing the potential
for a wave of spam, according to security experts.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=vn20040304094717756C889267&set_id=1
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