general internet news - 10 May

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

us: The Internet's Wilder Side (reg req'd)
It was just another Wednesday on the sprawling Internet
chat-room network known as I.R.C. In a room called
Prime-Tyme-Movies, users offered free pirated downloads of
"The Passion of the Christ'' and "Kill Bill Vol. 2.'' In
the DDO-Matrix channel, illegal copies of Microsoft's
Windows software and "Prince of Persia: The Sands of
Time,'' an Xbox game, were ripe for downloading. In other
chat rooms yesterday, whole albums of free MP3's were
hawked with blaring capital letters. And in a far less
obtrusive channel, a hacker may well have been checking his
progress of hacking into the computers of unsuspecting
Internet users.

http://nytimes.com/2004/05/06/technology/circuits/06chat.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5207202.html

cn: China shuts more than 8,600 Net cafes for letting in
minors
China has shut down more than 8,600 Internet cafes since
February, many of them for illegally admitting juveniles,
the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2004-05-07-china-closes-cafes_x.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/06/china.internet.ap/index.html
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/07/1083881475636.html

vn: Nguyen Vu Binh on hunger strike
The cyberdissident began a hunger strike on 5 May 2004 at
the end of his appeal trial. Vu Binh is protesting against
the court's decision to uphold his sentence of seven years
in prison followed by three years house arrest. Reporters
Without Borders has repeated its condemnation of this
unfair sentence that has pushed the human rights activist
to risk his life.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10293 (English)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10290 (Espanol)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10289
(Francais)

ir/us: Anti-censorship web service censors itself
The service, set up by the US government to assist Iranian
websurfers, is itself massively censoring what they can
see.
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994952

US powerless to halt Iraq net images
Last year's US-led war in Iraq presented a showcase for the
Pentagon's superior military technology - but as the
occupation drags on, gadgetry is increasingly showing
another side of the American armed forces.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3695897.stm

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-07-warphotos_x.htm

Iraq Prison Scandal at Its Most Graphic
While newspapers tended to show restraint in how many and
which photos they printed, many Web sites posted as many
images as they could find in greater detail.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10111-2004May8.html

au: Father pleads for missing girl's return
The father of a missing Sydney schoolgirl, who is believed
to have disappeared with an older boy she met on the
internet, has pleaded for his daughter's return.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/06/1083635279059.html

us: 'P2P' Firms Join Child-Porn Fight
Online file-sharing networks, used by millions of consumers
to trade digital music, videos, games and software, are
beginning to work with law enforcement to crack down on
child-pornography purveyors who use their systems.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5659-2004May5.html

us: FTC Testifies on Peer to Peer File Sharing and Online
Pornography
The Federal Trade Commission today told the Subcommittee on
Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the House
Committee on Energy and Commerce that P2P software can
expose consumers, to unwanted pornography, as well as
games, videos, and music that may be inappropriate for
children. Howard Beales, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of
Consumer Protection said the FTC has issued a consumer
alert, “File Sharing: A Fair Share? Maybe Not,” to warn
consumers including parents, about the risk that P2P
software can pose and to alert them to the “security risks
of improperly configuring P2P file-sharing software,
including the risk that sensitive personal files
inadvertently may be disclosed.”
 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/05/smut.htm

P2P Community Joining Child Porn Crackdown
The peer-to-peer community is joining law enforcement to
crack down on child pornographers who might be using
popular file-swapping networks to distribute child porn.
And they're taking a page from one of the most famous
children's welfare campaigns as part of their effort.

http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=83131

us: P2P - 'Please keep it in perspective'
Only a tiny fraction of tips from the public to the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children between
1998 and 2003 involved p2p technology. This was one of the
points made by a group of p2p network operators, today, to
an important US committee hearing on child pornography.
 http://p2pnet.net/story/1381

P2P group suggests porn-related 'most wanted' list
Internet file-trading networks unveiled on Thursday a new
approach to fighting child pornography, as they came under
a new round of criticism from the U.S. Congress.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5207629.html

Pirates and hackers roam in the Internet's Wild West
Internet Relay Chat remains the place where people with
something to hide go to do business.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/518937.html

Software From UF May Help Block Porn
The University of Florida was battling the nationwide
problem of students illegally downloading copyrighted music
and movies when it devised software that blocks file
swapping by the 7,500 students in its dormitories.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040507/NEWS/405070361/1039

us: Online Pornography, Marriage Protection,
Consumer-Choice Cable, & Appeals Court Bill
A couple of major social issues were on display this week
on Capitol Hill. One involves protecting children from
online pornography. The other involves protecting the
institution of marriage.
 http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/040507b.asp

US Anticensorship Bureau Found Censoring
A report from a group of Internet experts indicates a U.S.
anticensorship Internet access program is employing keyword
filtering for the foreign Web surfers it serves, resulting
in overblocking, which many argue is a form of censorship
in itself.
 http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33654.html

fr: Censure privée sur le Web
a Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH) et les associations
présentes, hier, à la conférence de presse ont également
rappelé les craintes que leur inspire la loi sur l'économie
numérique qui doit faire l'objet de dernières lectures à
l'Assemblée nationale le 6 mai et au Sénat le 13 mai.
 http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=202244&AG

us: Kids Site Seeks More Content
The Kids.us site launched two years ago as a safe place for
children online, but it faces the same challenge as
child-oriented services in the real world do: offering
enough activities to keep the kids coming back.
 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116034,00.asp

Parents worried over 3G mobiles
Three-quarters of parents are concerned that 3G mobile
phones could put their children's safety at risk.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1154950

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=9&u=/nm/20040504/wr_nm/tech_britain_phones_dc

us: Another wrinkle: permitted numbers
Rather than yell at their children for using too many
wireless minutes, and threaten to shut off the phones,
parents may soon be able to go online and control not only
how much the kids use the phones -- but when and even whom
they can call.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/03/28/another_wrinkle_permitted_numbers/

us/au: Curb on kids' mobile calls
PARENTS may soon be able to limit the bad habits of their
mobile-mad children with a new software program that
controls who can call and be called from mobile phones.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9424855%255E11869,00.html

us: Buddy Lists and Mixed Messages
It's no secret that trying to keep up with your
computer-savvy kids isn't easy. Even when parents think
they know what's going on, chances are good they're still
at least a step behind.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64312-2004May3.html

au: Tarni's home, then it's off to netball
Life returned to normal yesterday for a Sydney schoolgirl
found in a Canberra apartment after three days on the run
with a man twice her age.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/08/1083911457587.html

au: Child pornographer given 7-year jail term
A 54-year-old Wollongong man has been sentenced in
Wollongong District Court in New South Wales to a total of
seven years jail for child pornography offences.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1103891.htm

us: 5-4 Police say man sent images over Internet
A 40-year-old Joshua-area man is being held in the Tarrant
County Jail on a motion to revoke parole after becoming a
suspect in an Internet child pornography distribution case.

http://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/articles/2004/05/06/news/local_news/news11.txt

us: Kilday sexual assault trial starts Monday
It won't be known if photographs reportedly found in Edward
H. Kilday's desk at Mattoon High School are relevant in the
sexual assault case against him until it's determined what
the alleged victim has to say about them.
 http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2004/05/07/news/news02.txt

us: Boulder County Sheriff's Office gets first Web sting
conviction
A 45-year-old Denver man went to Boulder's Crossroads Mall
thinking he was going to have a sexual encounter with a
13-year-old boy he met over the Internet.

http://www2.dailycamera.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_2870545,00.html

http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_2870545,00.html

us: St. Pauls teen talks about why she left
Fourteen-year-old Crystal Freeman drove to Alabama, was
living with a 19-year-old man she met on the Internet and
said she was looking for work when Robeson County
investigators tracked her down last month.

http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=region&Story=6316783

us: Ex-deputy gets 1-year term in Web porn case
A former veteran deputy with the Oakland County Sheriff's
Department was led away in handcuffs -- and tears --
Tuesday to serve a year behind bars for buying child
pornography.
 http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/gomez5_20040505.htm

us: Delcore indicted on 10 counts of pornography
One month after Barrington swim coach Joshua Delcore was
charged with possession of child pornography, a Lake County
grand jury indicted him for 10 counts.

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/ba/05-06-04-284667.html

us: FTC testimony highlights file-sharing dangers
The Federal Trade Commission told a congressional committee
on Thursday that it believes file-sharing software poses a
threat to consumers and children in the form of mislabeled
content such as pornography.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5207254.html

us: EarthLink, Cox Pulled Into Music Piracy Suits
Music piracy cases in Georgia could determine whether
recording companies must meet certain standards before
forcing Internet service providers to hand over the names
of subscribers suspected of downloading and circulating
copyrighted, bootleg recordings.
 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1083783532580

Developers search for anonymous file-sharing
While media companies step up their legal crackdown on
Internet song-swappers, separate teams of software
developers -- from the Middle East to Madrid -- toil away
on a foiling technology: an anonymous file-sharing network.
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040506/80/eswo2.html

uk: A Copyright Strategy for your Business: Important
Lessons (reg req'd)
Internet piracy is a major threat to all businesses whose
success depends on controlling copyright works. Hana
Ferraris outlines mistakes made by the music industry in
dealing with Internet theft and shows how you can learn
from them to prevent your own works being copied.
 http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=25565&e=on

us: FTC Settles with Deceptive Spammers
The Federal Trade Commission has settled charges that Brian
Westby and Martijn P. Bevelander employed spam that used
deceptively bland subject lines, false return addresses,
and empty “reply-to” links to expose unsuspecting
consumers, including children, to sexually explicit
material. The agency alleged that Westby and Bevelander
used the spam in an attempt to drive business to adult Web
sites titled “Married But Lonely.” The settlement bars the
use of false subject lines and false header information in
e-mail and requires that the defendants give up $112,500 in
ill-gotten gains. The activity in this case predates the
CAN-SPAM Act, which became effective on January 1, 2004.
 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/05/westbysettlement.htm

uk: Anti-spam laws baffle UK.biz
Businesses are in the dark over anti-spam laws, with 83 per
cent ignorant of legislation aimed at stopping junk emails,
a new survey has revealed. The research, conducted by
software firm Clearswift, found that although just 16 per
cent of businesses were aware of laws against spam, a
massive 92 per cent felt current rules were not tough
enough to stop unwanted emails.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/07/uk_anti_spam_laws

A recipe for battling spam in Canada
Over the past ten years, spam has grown from a minor
annoyance to a global concern, threatening the reliability
of electronic communication and the adoption of electronic
commerce. Despite developing anti-spam technological tools,
promoting greater consumer awareness, and the introduction
of anti-spam legislation in many countries, the spam
problem continues unabated.
 http://shorl.com/gisatystabrope
 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/geistspam.pdf

uk: Cyber crime fight is under resourced
Internet crimes should be recorded along with other
national crime statistics, according to the chairman of the
All Party Internet Group.
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39120497,00.htm


Reino Unido discute sobre la actualización de la ley contra
los delitos informáticos
Durante el jueves día 6 de mayo el Parlamento de Reino
Unido decidirá la nueva ley contra los delitos
informáticos. Esto se debe a que la que tienen en vigor
actualmente es del año 1990.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108385062642189.shtml

us: Bill would ban online, mail-order sales of cigarettes
A bill that would ban New Jersey residents from buying
cigarettes on the Internet or by mail order was approved by
a Senate committee Thursday.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--xgr-cigarettes-in0506may06,0,7539156.story

in: High Court issues directive to Hotmail
In a significant order, the Delhi High Court has sought
from e-mail service provider Hotmail details of an
unidentified person and his NGO sending chain mails using
the name of TATA Group and its Chairman Ratan Tata and
claiming to be involved in treatment of cancer patients.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/001200405041101.htm

us: Newspapers see danger in text messaging
International editors and publishers warned Friday that
nontraditional communications -- such as cell phone text
messages -- are rapidly outflanking radio, television, and
print media because of their immediacy and proximity to the
public.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/05/07/newspapers_see_danger_in_text_messaging/

Teen 'confesses' to Sasser worm
An 18-year-old German high school student has admitted
creating the Sasser internet worm, police say.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3695857.stm

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1446_A_1195918_1_A,00.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=5080011
Small-town teenager made Sasser worm

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5081009

Sasser is fastest written Windows worm
It was released just 17 days after Microsoft revealed the
software flaw it exploits - but not revealing bugs would be
worse, say experts.
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994955

U.S. hit by rise in 'phishing' attacks
An estimated one in five Americans were the target of a
"phishing" attack in the past year, as the number of such
Internet scams rose dramatically, according to a study
released on Thursday.
 http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5207297.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9494075%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=399780985&fp=2&fpid=1

Billions of "phishing" e-mails sent monthly
Fraudulent e-mails designed to dupe Internet users out of
their credit card details or bank information topped the
three billion mark last month, according to one of the
largest spam e-mail filtering companies.
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040506/80/esy4i.html

us: Liberal Net rules spawn political attack ads
When it comes to pushing harsh political attack ads,
election campaign managers are discovering that few other
media compare to the Web.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5207277.html

Secretary-General, marking World Telecommunication Day,
says affordable
Technologies can be effective engines of social, material
change
 http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9294.doc.htm

ITU Official Praises African Countries for Innovation
South Africa, Uganda and Nigeria were singled out for
praise in promoting telecommunications development by an
official of the International Telecommunications Union
(ITU), during the African Telecoms 2004 conference
yesterday.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200405060351.html

PrepCom-1 for Wsis-05 Underway
PLANS are at advanced stage to host the first Preparatory
Committee (PrepCom) meeting for the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) slated for November 2005 in
Tunisia.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200404290552.html

NEPAD Finding Its Feelers in the ICT World
Here is a true story Samer Halawi, the Middle East and
Africa director of Inmarsat, told delegates at the sixth
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Telecom Africa
conference in Cairo Egypt. "For a long time two remote
schools in Lebanon were not exposed to the benefits of the
Internet," he began, "This had negative effects on
learning. Many of them left high schools without ever being
introduced to the benefits of the Internet.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200405070274.html

Africa/ITU: The Youth's Long And Winding ICT Road
Zimbabwean Ednah Dondo slouches back into the chair and
puts her feet up. Ithas been a long day and an even longer
week at the sixth International Telecommunications Union
(ITU) Telecom Africa conference in Cairo Egypt.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200405070276.html

us: Calif. Panel Approves E-Voting Ban
A California Senate committee approved a proposal to ban
all electronic voting machines in the November election,
less than a week after the state's top elections official
decided to ban the machines unless they met certain
conditions.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7096

us: Merits of E-Voting, Paper Backups Debated
Scientists told a federal panel Wednesday that electronic
voting isn't completely reliable and suggested a backup
paper system might be the only way to avoid another
disputed presidential election in November.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7100

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