general internet news - 13 July

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

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CENSORSHIP & CONTENT REGULATION
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Two Vietnam Cyber Dissidents Face Trial -Groups
A professor and a retired army colonel who used the
Internet to criticize communist Vietnam's policies
face trial in the next week as Hanoi extends a
crackdown on cyber dissidents, human rights groups
said on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5617780

ca: Bell invests $700,000 to fight child porn online
Bell Canada has donated $700,000 to a group
established to fight child pornography online.

http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=89ea5e08-65a5-43f1-85f1-ea3b02d6d988

Bell Canada Takes Additional Step in Fighting Online
Child Pornography (news release)
Bell Canada today announced an additional step that
strengthens the company's commitment to fight the
proliferation of online child pornography.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2004/09/c1906.html

nu: Legal war heats up over porn claims
The domain administration for the Pacific island
nation of Niue is so incensed by a study which says
its sites are amongst the most prolific sources of
pornography online that it has threatened legal
action.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39152628,00.htm

Tunisia: Clampdown on the internet continues
An appeal court has upheld what local and
international observers say are ‘unjustified
sentences' handed down to young web users, picked up
in a raid on a web café in the Tunisian city of Zarzis
as they browsed Islamist websites . For them the case
is just more evidence of the country's intransigence
on the issue of free expression and the internet – and
calls into question the UN's plans to host a global
summit on information technology in Tunis in late
2005.

http://www.indexonline.org/news/20040707_tunisia.shtml

us: Americans object to war images online
Half of Americans object to the online availability of
graphic war images, though millions have actively
sought them out, a new study finds.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/07/09/war.images.ap/index.html

us: Libraries to comply with antiporn law or lose
federal funding
Public libraries must begin taking steps to prevent
child pornography and other harmful content from
reaching the eyes of youngsters using their PCs under
the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which
went into effect July 1. If they don't, the libraries
will lose critical technology funding from the federal
government.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci991888,00.html

To Filter Or Not To Filter?
When Fairfax City resident Rick Fary heard what had
happened to his daughter at the Fairfax City Regional
Library, Fary became upset. His 17-year-old daughter
took her younger sister to work on a research project
on a May 23 Sunday afternoon.

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=37507&paper=73&cat=104

us: L.A. Requires Safety Measures at Cyber Cafes
Worried that cyber cafes are turning into dens of
truancy and breeding gang violence, Los Angeles City
Council members Wednesday unanimously voted to
regulate about 30 businesses where teens and others
congregate to use computers.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-cyber8jul08,1,2137421.story

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5612894

us: Americans Find Graphic Images Online
Cultural, gender, and economic divisions are evident
among those that approve of the availability of
graphic images and those that don't, as millions of
Internet users actively search for the disturbing
photos and videos.

http://www.clickz.com/stats/big_picture/demographics/article.php/3378551

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/07/11/americans_object_to_war_images_online

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38670-2004Jul9.html

us: FTC Issues Fourth Follow-up Report on The
Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children
The Federal Trade Commission today issued a new
follow-up Report to Congress on the marketing of
violent movies, music, and video games to children.
 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/07/mvreport.htm

us: Supreme Court Term Bleak for Conservatives
Conservatives can't find much to smile about now that
the Supreme Court has concluded it's 2003-2004
session. Some are calling it "bleak." Even Justice
Antonin Scalia had harsh words for his colleagues on
the court, saying they were incapable of admitting
that some matters are none of the court's business.
 http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0032768.cfm

Wham! George Michael shuts web chatroom after careless
whispers
He had few qualms about featuring his lewd antics in a
Los Angeles lavatory in a comic pop video, complete
with kissing policemen. But it appears that George
Michael is not happy for others to take a pop.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=539465
 http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14483,00.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/gm_chat_bm/

Keep Your Kids Safe
In September 2003, 53-year-old John Zuccarini was
arrested at a Florida hotel and, after admitting to
his crimes in a plea bargain, became the first person
convicted under the national Truth in Domain Names
Act. The crime: According to the United States
Attorney's office for the Southern District of New
York, Zuccarini registered and used more than 3,000
misleading domain names, many of which directed
children to hard-core porn sites and graphic
depictions of young people engaged in sex acts. The
domains included www .teltubbies.com and
www.bobthebiulder.com—both misspellings of the
addresses for popular children's TV shows.
 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1621258,00.asp

Studie: Besitzer von Webseiten im Internet sind meist
introvertiert
"Wer sich auf seiner persönlichen Homepage im Internet
präsentiert, ist nicht automatisch auch
selbstbewusst", schreiben Psychologen der Technischen
Universität Chemnitz. Mit anderen Worten: Besitzer
privater Webseiten im Internet sind offenbar
introvertierter als ihre Zeitgenossen ohne eigenen
Internetauftritt. Zu diesem Ergebnis kamen die
Wissenschaftler im Rahmen der Studie Selbstdarsteller
oder Menschen wie du und ich? gekommen. Etwa 300
Besitzer von Homepages wurden von den Chemnitzern
befragt, teilte die Universität heute mit. Nach
Angaben der Forscher sind deren Betreiber im sozialen
Umgang eher unsicher und können schlechter mit Kritik
umgehen.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/48917

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ONLINE CRIME & ILLEGAL CONTENT
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Sexual abuse online
According to Washington ProFile, every fifth under age
user of the Internet runs the risk of online sexual
abuse. These statistics are given in the report of the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
 http://crime-research.org/news/08.07.2004/475/

Online film piracy 'set to rise'
One in four people on the internet have illegally
downloaded a film and the problem is set to get worse,
said the US movie industry's trade body.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3879519.stm

uk: Police swoop on Nigerian email fraud ringleaders
500 arrested over 'begging letter' scams after London
tip-offs.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1258431,00.html

us: Prosecutors and ISP battle over servers in
child-porn suit
Prosecutors have asked a judge to freeze a free speech
lawsuit brought by a suburban Philadelphia Internet
firm while a grand jury investigates whether the
company distributed child pornography.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-07-12-penn-servers-suit_x.htm

http://www.detnews.com/2004/technology/0407/12/technology-208993.htm

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10112881%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

eu: Corporate governance a top priority, say execs
Eighty-five per cent of senior finance professionals
say governance is not a fad and will be on their
firms' agenda for at least the next 18 months,
according to a recent survey of 147 companies across
the UK, the US, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39122077,00.htm

us: ICE Arrests 92 Child Sex Offenders In Minnesota
During 1st Year Of Operation Predator (news
release)http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsrel/articles/070904sexpredator.htm
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special
agents here arrested 92 child sex offenders in
Minnesota during the first year of Operation Predator,
an initiative launched on July 9, 2003 that is
designed to protect children from sexual exploitation.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsrel/articles/070904sexpredator.htm

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsrel/articles/predator2004.htm

Fact Sheet: Operation Predator
Each year, millions of children fall prey to sexual
predators. Experts estimate that one-in-five girls and
one-in-ten boys in the United States are sexually
exploited before they reach adulthood. These young
victims are left with permanent psychological,
physical, and emotional scars. That tragedy is
compounded by the fact that child prostitution, human
trafficking, child pornography, and international sex
tourism now generate billions of dollars a year
worldwide.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/07/20040707-10.html

Vietnam jails on-line dissident
A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced a pro-democracy
activist to 19 months in jail for his on-line
criticism of the government, a court official said
Friday.

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040709.wviet0709/BNStory/International/

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39160088,00.htm

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=5617780

vn: Tran Khue to be released shortly
A Vietnamese court on 9 July sentenced cyberdissident
Tran Khue to 19 months in prison for "abusing
democratic rights with the intention of harming the
security of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam". Since
he has already served this time in jail awaiting
trial, following his arrest in December 2002, he
should be released in the next few weeks.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10908

uk: Regulator demands more powers to fight rogue
diallers
ICSTIS, the organisation that regulates the premium
rate telephone services, is demanding that the
government gives it the powers it needs to fight the
growing menace of rogue diallers.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39159998,00.htm
	
South Korea to create unit fighting cybercrime
South Korean National Police Department will create a
new unit of computer anti-terror by the end of this
year. Police management came to the necessity of such
step after they had encountered attempts to hack
governmental information networks and distribution of
information like beheading of a Korean hostage in Iraq
on the Net.
 http://crime-research.org/news/10.07.2004/477/

Russian police rounds up an organized criminal group
Officers of Russian cyber police (Department K of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs) nipped in the bud
activities of a big organized criminal group, that has
been manufacturing and selling special technical
devices for secret obtaining of information from
technical channels of radio communications for several
years, including computer information and information
processed in computer system.
 http://crime-research.org/news/05.07.2004/467/

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SPAM
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Experts Question UN's Anti-Spam Plan
Suggestions from the International Telecommunications
Union (ITU) conference about how to fight spam has an
anti-spam expert questioning whether spam can really
be wiped out.
 http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3378241

Russia is going to outlaw spam
More than 99% of all websites linked in spam messages
are based in China, South Korea, the US, Russia and
Brazil, a new survey of Commtouch, a company engaged
in selling anti spam solutions. Commtouch have
analysed hundreds of millions of advertisement
messages and they note that about 55% of them come
from the USA. 73% of ad messages direct their
recipients to websites located in China.
 http://crime-research.org/news/12.07.2004/478/

Spam on the rise
Today spam is about 70% of all emails in the world.
These data are given by American company MessageLab
involved in developing of program-filters.
 http://crime-research.org/news/09.07.2004/476/

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INTERNET USE
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uk: Little Miss Innocent seeks sexXxi boy...
Online dating for teenagers is increasing popular in
Britain. Should we be alarmed - or is this just the
modern way of making friends?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1258343,00.html

Net not just for wealthy, Statscan says
The Internet is weaving its way deeper into the lives
of more Canadians of all economic backgrounds, who
turn to it more and more for communication and for
information about personal health.

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040709.gtinternet09/BNStory/Technology/

Fifth of UK surfers download pirated movies
One in five UK internet users claims to have
downloaded a pirated copy of a movie, according to
research by the Motion Picture Association of America
(MPAA).
 http://www.vnunet.com/news/1156543

58% SKorean internet users illegally download films
About one-fourth of Internet users in an eight-country
survey admit to illegally downloading movies, but the
percentage is more that twice as high in South Korea,
according to an industry survey.

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/12/1089484273974.html

us: One-in-four broadband users have illegally
downloaded a movie
According to a survey published by the Motion Picture
Association of America, almost one in four internet
broadband users have illegally downloaded a movie. The
survey also claims that those who download buy fewer
DVDs and cinema tickets.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=oneinfourbroadban1089630291

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39160021,00.htm

Internet Explorer rivals celebrate gains
Security flaws in Microsoft's ubiquitous Web browser
are breathing life into Internet Explorer's rivals.
Since early June, Explorer's share of the market has
dropped from 95.48% to 94.42%, according to San Diego
Web analytics firm WebSideStory.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-07-11-browser_x.htm

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WSIS
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PrepCom 1 of the Tunis phase of the World Summit on
the Information Society (WSIS and Bangladesh
participation
The first Preparatory Meeting (PrepCom 1 of the Tunis
phase) of the World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS) completed its work on June 26, 2004 with broad
agreement on the issues that should form the focus of
the Tunis Summit and agreed on the structure of the
preparatory process for the second phase.

http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2004-07-12&hidType=ICT&hidRecord=0000000000000000014026

Wave of optimism as ITU WSIS meeting on countering
spam closes
Participants at the ITU WSIS thematic meeting on
countering spam which concluded its work today agreed
on a series of actions needed to curb spam. The
watershed meeting was designed to launch a global
effort that can ultimately lead to the eradication of
spam. Based on a fruitful exchange of views and
experiences, the meeting gave an opportunity to
identify where priority action was needed.

http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2004/17.html

Lettera aperta all'Onu sul percorso verso il WSIS
Tunisi 2005
Le organizzazioni che operano per la libertà di
espressione riunite nell'incontro International
Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) tenutosi lo
scorso 18 giugno a Baku (Azerbaijan) esprimono con un
documento la loro preoccupazione sul ruolo del governo
tunisino nel percorso di avvicinamento al World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS) che si terrà nel
novembre 2005 proprio in Tunisia, in quanto reo di
violare la libertà di espressione e quindi i principi
della Carta delle Nazioni Unite. Quindi viene chiesta
all'Onu di riconsiderare la sede del prossimo WSIS se
il governo tunisino non farà dei progressi sul diritto
alla libertà di espressione.
 http://unimondo.oneworld.net/article/view/89457/1/

Wsis: dopo il I° Prepcom in forse Tunisi
Chiusa la prima fase di preparazione del World Summit
on the Information Society (Wsis) previsto per il
novembre 2005 proprio in Tunisia. L’ultima tappa di
questo percorso è stata Hammamet in Tunisia dove oltre
al dibattito sull'Internet Governance e sul Financing
è stata messa indiscussione da un nutrito numero di
Ong il rispetto della libertà di espressione da parte
del governo tunisino e l’opportunità di mantenere il
vertice a Tunisi. All'interno della campgna CRIS
prenderà il via a Bolzano il prossimo 16 luglio il
Global Governance Project.
 http://unimondo.oneworld.net/article/view/89506/1/

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MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Technology & Medicine
Networked devices that keep tabs on at-risk elderly
patients living at home; here come paperless
hospitals; the race to secure medical records; and
more.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2004/tc2004077_7372.htm

Australian parliament fights spyware outbreak
After discovering more than 50 pieces of spyware on
their system, Australian parliamentarians are calling
for better protection on government networks.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39160180,00.htm

Mozilla Patches Vulnerability
Developers at the Mozilla Foundation quickly patched a
hole in its Web browser that could allow crackers to
take over users' PCs.
 http://internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3379111

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=10&Art_ID=20482

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CHILD PROTECTION ARRESTS
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au: Child porn voyeur gets good behaviour bond
A Wollongong man has been given a two-year good
behaviour bond after admitting to downloading
thousands of images of child pornography on his
computer.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1152123.htm

au: More child porn charges likely
Sunshine Coast police say more people are likely to be
arrested and charged in relation to child pornography,
drugs and firearms offences after last Friday's raids
which resulted in 17 people being charged.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1151741.htm

uk: Dead pilot in child porn probe
A pilot who died with his wife when their plane
crashed in Liverpool Bay was being investigated over
child porn allegations, it has emerged.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3882457.stm

uk: Child porn case teacher on the run
A Coventry teacher, who went on the run for more than
18 months after being accused of child porn offences,
was today behind bars.

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14413654%26method=full%26siteid=50003%26headline=child%2dporn%2dcase%2dteacher%2don%2dthe%2drun-name_page.html

us: San Jose Police Seek Help in Identifying Perp
Robert Martin Brown, a 50 year old Newark man, was
arrested by the San Jose police on suspicion of
sending sexually graphic material over the Internet to
an undercover detective posing as a preteen girl.
Police are concerned that Brown might have contacted
other teenagers and released his screen name,
`Dewaltman50'.
 http://crime-research.org/news/06.07.2004/472/

us: Man gets maximum sentence in child porn case
Randal Chaise Harty, 22, of Gladewater, who was
serving a three-year non-adjudicated probation
sentence for possession of child pornography in Upshur
County, had his probation revoked and his sentence
adjudicated at a contested probation revocation
hearing in 115th District Court Tuesday.
 http://www.gilmermirror.com/index.php?ArtID=7730

us: Child pornography suspect turns self in
Today a 29-year-old Massachusetts man turned himself
in to a Connecticut judge. Police say that he had over
a hundred photographs of child pornography on his
computer.

http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2016845&nav=1VGmObnn

us: Extensive Child Pornography Seizure
On Monday July 5th, 2004, the Peel Regional Police,
Child Pornography Unit along with the Vice Unit
executed a search warrant at a Brampton home.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2004/08/c1656.html

us: Federal program to catch pedophiles nets 3,200
arrests in first year
A nationwide sting to catch people who traffic in
child sex and pornography has led to more than 3,200
arrests in its first year, including 90 in Michigan,
the federal government said Thursday.

http://www.detnews.com/2004/technology/0407/12/technology-207150.htm

us: Child-porn sweep nets Mesa man
A Mesa man is one of the latest to be arrested in a
nationwide sweep that targets people who traffic in
child sex and pornography.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0710EVchildporn.html

us: Bruning files charges against foster parent for
child sexual assault, child pornography possession and
manufacturing
Attorney General Jon Bruning announced today that he
has filed criminal charges against Jeffery D. Myers,
formerly of Blue Hill, for child sexual assault and
child pornography possession and manufacturing.

http://www.theindependent.com/stories/070704/new_bruning07.shtml

us: Immigration officer charged with owning child porn
A 30-year-old federal juvenile corrections officer has
been charged with trading and owning child
pornography, officials said.

http://www.dailysentinel.com/hp/content/gen/ap/TX_Agent_Arrested.html

http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=2020939&nav=AbBzOdtf

us: Laconia man arrested for child porn
A city man has been arrested in connection with a
six-month-long investigation into child pornography.

http://www.citizen.com/July2004/07.09.04/news/laconia_07.09_04e.asp

us: Local Tennis Coach Facing Child Pornography
Charges
It was on the courts behind Mandarin High School where
54 year-old Kenneth Wayne Smith mentored many kids and
adults to become tennis pros. But police say something
else sidelined Smith that led to his appearance in a
different court.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=21195

us: Alleged stalker faces pornography charges  - Jul.
9, 2004
A Montpelier man who is already facing a stalking
charge was arraigned Thursday in Vermont District
Court on five new felony charges of possession of
child pornography.
 http://www.timesargus.com/04/Story/86356.html

us: Youth adviser to appear today on child porn charge
A volunteer youth adviser at Myers Park Presbyterian
Church is scheduled to appear in federal court today
on a felony charge of distributing child pornography.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krcharlotte/20040708/lo_krcharlotte/youthadvisertoappeartodayonchildporncharge

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/9109313.htm?1c

us: Rocky Hill Police Charge Man With Child Porn
They say the man took pornographic pictures of an
underage girl for years and put them on his computer,
and the girl never knew.
 http://www.nbc30.com/news/3510075/detail.html

us: Ex-treasurer of firefighters group sentenced on
child porn charge
A West Covina firefighter was sentenced Tuesday for
stealing money from a firefighters' group to pay for
visits to online child pornography sites.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/the_valley/9094963.htm?1c

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