general internet news - November 15

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

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Internet in Asia blog: sirc.blogspot.com
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Great firewall of China
By the end of this year, the country will have the
second-largest online community in the world,
monitored by an alleged 30,000 internet police. How do
the Chinese feel about this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1349283,00.html

au/us: Dow Jones settles Gutnick action
Melbourne businessman Joseph Gutnick has resolved a
lengthy defamation battle against US publisher Dow
Jones.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1242115.htm

ph: NBI to intensify war vs child pornography
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will
intensify its efforts against child pornography rings
after a successful bust in July.
 http://www.mb.com.ph/MTNN2004111322424.html

uk: Lords Written Answers - Child Pornography
Questions & Answers from the House of Lords on child
abuse image legislation across the EU'
 http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.94.htm

uk: IWF Member, Iomart launches NetIntelligence Home
Edition
NetIntelligence is the world’s first Parental Control
and Security software designed for today’s broadband
technology. Parents will be able to record
chat/instant messaging conversations, block sexually
explicit or otherwise harmful websites, stop viruses,
and monitor computer usage both on and off line.
 http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.93.htm

us: Child porn bylaw passes
A bylaw that reinforces the responsibility of internet
service providers to cooperate with police
investigations of child pornography received third and
final reading by Huron East council on Tuesday night.

http://www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com/story.php?id=126606

Selling sex in the U.S.A.
To triumphant strains of the "Queen" rock anthem, the
paunchy, middle-aged male actor is jumping up and down
in an ecstatic victory ritual – in slow motion yet, to
immortalize the transcendent moment – delirious over
his new-found sexual potency, thanks to Viagra.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41407

ca: War on cybercrime against kids widens
Ontario's fight against Internet crimes that target
children got a boost of up to $5 million yesterday.
Monte Kwinter, Ontario minister of community safety
and correctional services, announced the additional
spending at a YM-YWCA in downtown Ottawa as part of
Crime Prevention Week.
 http://crime-research.org/news/11.11.2004/783/

Iranian Net journalists face trial
A group of journalists working with pro-reform online
media will go on trial in Iran next week accused of
spreading propaganda against the Islamic state, a
judiciary official was quoted as saying Tuesday.

http://news.com.com/Iranian+Net+journalists+face+trial/2100-1028_3-5444979.html

Anti-Spam Measures Block Free Speech
Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
released a white paper describing the effects of
anti-spam technologies on free speech. "Noncommercial
Email Lists: Collateral Damage in the Fight Against
Spam" focuses on how groups running noncommercial
email lists are being harmed by anti-spam techniques.
The paper grew out of EFF's efforts to help
MoveOn.org, human rights groups, parents' groups, and
others, deliver email messages in the face of barriers
that are aimed at stopping spam but that also stop
wanted messages.
 http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_11.php#002097

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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uk: Hordes of web bots do crooks' bidding
Malicious programs threaten to engulf UK corporations
as hi-tech crime taskforce tracks cases of online
blackmail around the world

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1350264,00.html

uk: Spam conman faces jail
A conman who amassed a £13 million fortune has become
the first person convicted under new American
anti-junk e-mail legislation.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2004/11/10/ecnspam05.xml

us: Cyber Crime Tools Could Serve Terrorists -FBI
The hacking and identity theft tools now earning big
money for mainly eastern European organized crime
could be used by terrorists to attack the United
States, an FBI official said on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=6777533

Police break up European piracy ring
Greek and British police in a joint operation cracked
an illegal software sales ring, arresting two people
and seizing thousands of pirated software programs,
Greek police said on Friday.

http://news.com.com/Police+break+up+European+piracy+ring/2100-1014_3-5449951.html

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39173696,00.htm

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6800377

Cybercriminals infiltrating U.K. companies
Criminal gangs in Britain are increasingly attempting
to plant insiders in companies to steal data and aid
cybercrime attacks.

http://news.com.com/Cybercriminals+infiltrating+U.K.+companies/2100-7355_3-5450117.html

uk: Service providers hit with over £400,000 in fines
from UK watchdog
The UK's watchdog for premium rate phone numbers this
week published the results of actions against 15
service providers for abusing rogue-dialler software
and premium rate numbers. The companies were fined a
total of £438,700.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=serviceprovidershi1100258050

uk: Manx poet fined
A poet and internet publisher on the Isle of Man
escaped imprisonment yesterday for refusing to reveal
his sources in a libel case. Roly Drower, 51, was
instead fined £2,500 by a judge on the self-governing
island, and ordered to pay what his lawyer said would
be "substantial" costs. Mr Drower is being sued for
libel by a millionaire property developer, Albert
Gubay, who objected to statements published about him
on the website manxman.com.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1350239,00.html

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POLICY
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EFF Urges FCC Not to Mandate Surveillance Regime on
Internet
Earlier this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) filed comments with the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) objecting to the agency's plan to
expand the reach of a law that forces communications
service providers to build surveillance backdoors into
their networks.
 http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_11.php#002100

Pentagon Envisioning a Costly Internet for War (reg
req'd)
The Pentagon is building its own Internet, the
military's world wide web for the wars of the future.

http://nytimes.com/2004/11/13/technology/13warnet.html

http://news.com.com/Pentagon+envisioning+a+costly+Internet+for+war/2100-1023_3-5451149.html

WTO Says U.S. Should Drop Ban on Offshore Internet
Gambling
U.S. will appeal trade organization's recommendation
that Washington let Americans place bets in online
casinos.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/11/ap_111004.asp?p=1

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/10146233.htm

http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/285r_e.pdf

Tiny nation beats U.S. in gambling bout
The United States pledged on Wednesday that it would
fight to overturn a World Trade Organization ruling
favoring the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua in a
David-and-Goliath gambling row.

http://news.com.com/Tiny+nation+beats+U.S.+in+gambling+bout/2100-1038_3-5447430.html

us: Industry and Public Interest Groups Oppose Wiretap
Design Mandates for the Internet
On November 8, CDT filed detailed comments on behalf
of a diverse group of companies, trade associations
and public interest groups from across the political
spectrum opposing the plan of the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) to extend
controversial wiretap design mandates to the Internet.
CDT and others argued that broadband access and "Voice
over IP" (VoIP) services are not covered by the
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of
1994 (CALEA).
 http://www.cdt.org/digi_tele/voip.shtml

ca: Web pharmacies fear net tightening
Canada's Internet pharmacies warn that they face
devastation if Ottawa forces doctors to stop approving
mail-order prescriptions for U.S. patients without
examining them

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041112.gtpharmacies12/BNStory/Technology/

nl: National High Tech Crime Centre launched in
Netherlands
The Dutch government proposed this week giving the
country's police and public prosecutors greater powers
and introducing tougher measures against
cyber-criminals. If the move is approved, hackers
could face a year in jail, and a maximum of five if
they steal information from the computer.
 http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=4321

nz: Law targets mobile phone voyeurs
New Zealand is to introduce a law that will impose a
three-year jail sentence on mobile phone voyeurs who
take intimate photographs of people without their
knowledge.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_technology_story_skin/457856?format=html

de: Bundestag streitet über Web-Sperrungen und Filter
Im Prinzip waren sich bei einer Debatte im Plenum des
Bundestags am heutigen Freitag alle einig, dass
Sperrungsverfügungen gegen Internet-Provider kein
probates Mittel im Kampf gegen Schmutz, Schund sowie
andere illegale und jugendgefährdende Inhalte im Netz
sein können. Redner der rot-grünen Regierungskoalition
betonten unisono mit Vertretern der Opposition, dass
vielmehr internationale Absprachen, die Stärkung der
Medienkompetenz der Nutzer,
Selbstregulierungsmaßnahmen der Wirtschaft sowie von
den Nutzern selbst auf ihren Rechnern in Betrieb
genommene Filterprogramme gefragt seien.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/53214

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SPAM
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kr: Ministries Clash Over Anti-Spam War
Korea's two ministries are clashing on the
jurisdiction over the growing nuisance of e-mail spam,
or unsolicited commercial messages.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200411/kt2004111217491511790.htm

us: Jurors Wanted Maximum Sentence For Spam Kingpin
Jurors in the nation’s first felony spam case last
week said they quickly decided that Jeremy Jaynes was
the head of a huge spamming operation in North
Carolina and some on the panel even wanted to sentence
him to the maximum 15 years in prison.

http://www.leesburg2day.com/current.cfm?catid=19&newsid=9701

us: Spam, Authentication and Ensuring the Promise of
the Internet: Welcoming Remarks on Day Two - FTC/NIST
Email Authentication Summit
Good Morning: I am Jon Leibowitz – the newest Federal
Trade Commissioner. Thank you all for being here at
this very early hour to participate in the email
authentication summit. I want to open the second day
of the summit by encouraging everyone in this room
with an interest in email authentication – whether an
IP-based model, a signature-based model, or some other
technology or combination of technologies – to work
together to develop the tools necessary to help solve
the spam problem. This a goal we all share and one
that is attainable through cooperation and creativity.

http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/leibowitz/041110eauthsummit.pdf

us: INTERNET SECURITY IN A WIRELESS WORLD - The Case
of the Not-So-Friendly Neighborhood Spammer
Nicholas Tombros has the dubious double honor of being
the first spammer convicted under federal law ... and
the first convicted "war spammer" in U.S. history.
 http://www.fbi.gov/page2/nov04/warspammer111004.htm

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INTERNET USE
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Online Safety: Users Talk the Talk, Don't Walk the
Walk
When it comes to online security, perception is
definitely not reality. According to a joint
AOL/National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Online
Safety Study, users believe themselves to be "safe" in
general. Their computers indicate otherwise.

http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/software/article.php/3426951

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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UN establishes Working Group on Internet Governance
(news release)
Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the
establishment of the Working Group on Internet
Governance.  The Working Group will prepare the ground
for a decision on this issue by the second phase of
the World Summit on the Information Society, to be
held in Tunis in November 2005.
 http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/pi1620.doc.htm

U.N. creates Internet governance working group
Preparations are in full swing for the second phase of
the World Summit on the Information Society, or WSIS,
later next year.
 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1112wsis-un.html

http://infoworld.com/article/04/11/12/HNunworkinggroup_1.html

http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/11/12/un/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-1104

http://techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2610&Page=1

United Nations Establishes Working Group on Internet
Governance
Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the
members of the United Nations Working Group on
Internet Governance, which is to prepare the ground
for a decision on this contentious issue by the second
phase of the World Summit on the Information Society
in 2005. The establishment of the Working Group was
requested by the first phase of the Summit, held in
Geneva last December. At that time, countries agreed
to continue the dialogue on the management of the
Internet, at both the technical and policy levels.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/800_0_1_0_C/

Mitglieder der UN-Arbeitsgruppe Internet Governance
benannt
Der Generalsekretär der Vereinten Nationen, Kofi
Annan, gab heute die Namen der 40 Mitglieder der seit
langem angekündigten Arbeitsgruppe Internet Governance
(UN WGIG) bekannt. Die Einrichtung der Arbeitsgruppe
ist ein Ergebnis des ersten Weltgipfels der
Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS), bei dem das Thema
globale Verwaltung des Netzes zu einer heftigen
Kontroverse zwischen einigen großen
Entwicklungsländern und dem Westen, allen voran den
USA, geführt hatte. Die stärkere Internationalisierung
der Netzverwaltung bis hin zur Frage der Kontrolle
über Ressourcen wie den A-Root Server soll nun auf der
Grundlage eines Berichts der Arbeitsgruppe beim
zweiten WSIS-Gipfel im kommenden Dezember erneut
diskutiert werden.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/53185

Africa: Etisalat to host ITU symposium in Dubai
Etisalat has teamed up with the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) to jointly host a
region-wide e-Government and Internet Protocol (IP)
symposium. The top-level meeting, to be held in
Etisalat Academy in Dubai from November 22-25, 2004,
will look at the practical issues involved in
implementing e-Government and discuss policy aspects
of the management of DNS and IP addresses.

http://cpilive.net/news_ver2/inside.asp?wherefrom=search&newsitem=1111200424909AMCOMPUTER+NEWS+ME%2Ehtm&channel=COMPUTER+NEWS+ME
 http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/48586.html

ITU: Presentation on Internet Analysis Report 2004 -
Protocol and Governance
As part of the SPU lunch seminar series, Ian Peter,
Internet Mark 2 Project, gave a presentation to ITU
staff on Internet Governance entitled Internet
Analysis Report  2004 - Protocols and Governance

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2004/11/11.html#a750

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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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uk: Music fans embrace the internet
Music fans are shunning high street record stores in
favour of their online equivalents, according to
research.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,1349636,00.html

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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uk: Hunting with Firefox (Guardian Editorial/Leader)
Today marks a milestone in the history of the "open
source" movement, the extraordinary unpaid community
of volunteers all over the world who work together to
produce software which is placed in the public domain
without commercial gain. Today sees the official
launch of Firefox (www.getfirefox.com), a free
internet browser that is daring to take on Internet
Explorer, owned by Microsoft, which until recently had
a market share of over 95%. It roundly beat Netscape
(originally known as Mosaic) during the late 1990s in
what became known as the browser war.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1346436,00.html

Microsoft search sparks new war
MICROSOFT'S search engine launched opens a new front
for the world's biggest software company in the war
for control of the internet, analysts said.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11363320%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Microsoft Unveils Its Internet Search Engine, Quietly
Microsoft rolled out its long-planned response to
Google and Yahoo in the Internet search industry on
Wednesday.

http://nytimes.com/2004/11/11/technology/11search.html

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Surgeon caught with child porn to continue work
A north Queensland surgeon will continue working in
Mackay after being fined $2,000 for having 120 child
pornography images.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1242524.htm

au: Jailed child porn man in tears
HOLDING tissues to his mouth, Christopher James
Burgess was on the verge of vomiting as a District
Court judge jailed him for eight months for possessing
child pornography.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11362939%255E421,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11356603%255E421,00.html
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1241600.htm

au: Man pleads guilty to possessing child porn
A man appearing in the Launceston Magistrates Court
has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1241266.htm

uk: Ex-school worker on porn charge
An ex-school caretaker has appeared in court, charged
with downloading internet child pornography.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4007095.stm

uk: Child porn navy doctor keeps job
A disgraced Royal Navy doctor convicted of child porn
offences will be allowed to keep his job. Dr Stuart
Ruthven, 28, from Flixton in Greater Manchester, was
convicted of 12 counts of making indecent photographs
at Manchester Crown Court last September after he
admitted to downloading approximately 5,000 images of
child abuse from 1999 until his arrest last year.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/10/cp_medic/

ca: Grandfather guilty of accessing child porn
Landscaper Howard Watson tried to pull a fast one on
the taxman and his creditors. Instead, the city
grandfather was busted for having child pornography on
his computer. Watson, 54, was handed a one-year
conditional sentence yesterday to be served in the
community after pleading guilty in provincial court to
uttering a forged document and accessing child
pornography.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2004/11/13/712566.html

za: Child porno suspect's case shelved
The case of a Muldersdrift man arrested for possession
of child pornography has been postponed in the
Krugersdorp Magistrate's Court on the West Rand. The
suspect was arrested last month when police swooped on
his house.

http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,91830,00.html

us: Man guilty of having child porn videos
A Milford man suspected of running a child pornography
Web site was convicted Wednesday of possessing eight
child porn video clips on his laptop computer.

http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041111/NEWS01/111110045/-1/news

us: Birmingham man pleads guilty to child pornography
charges
A Birmingham man has pleaded guilty to child
pornography charges.
 http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2544671

us: Former Deputy pleads guilty to child pornography,
molestation charges
A former Saint Tammany Parish Sheriff's deputy pleaded
guilty today to one count of molestation of a juvenile
and one count of possession of child pornography.
 http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2541845

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20041109/lo_wdsu/2447610

us: Administrator appointed for Fall River church
A Fall River native has been appointed parochial
administrator at Our Lady of Fatima Church in
Sassaquin. He replaces the Rev. Stephen A. Fernandes,
who pleaded not guilty Monday to one count of
possession of child pornography.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/11-04/11-13-04/a03lo718.htm

http://www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com/story.php?id=126606

us: Harford County Man Convicted on Child Pornography
Charges
An Aberdeen, Harford County, man who worked for the
Defense Department has pleaded guilty to possession of
child pornography -- on his government-issued laptop
computer.

http://wjz.com/localstories/local_story_314082528.html

us: Former Cullman teacher sentenced in child sex case
A former Cullman teacher was sentenced Wednesday on
child pornography charges.
 http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2551752

us: Former South Bay school official pleads not guilty
to child pornography charges
A former assistant school principal in South Bay
pleaded not guilty in San Diego Superior Court
yesterday to charges of importing, possessing and
distributing child pornography.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041113/news_2m13rylander.html

us: Man jailed on multiple child pornography charges
A 44-year-old Springfield Township man may face 20
years in prison on charges of possession of child
pornography and criminal sexual conduct.

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/111304/loc_20041113006.shtml

us: Man indicted on child pornography charges
A Galliano man has been indicted by a federal grand
jury on a charge of possessing child pornography.
 http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2559199

us: Bauxite man gets three years in prison for
possessing child pornography
Clovis Tucker, 40, of Bauxite was convicted this week
of possessing child pornography and sentenced to three
years in state prison, Prosecuting Attorney Robert
Herzfeld said.

http://www.bentoncourier.com/articles/2004/11/12/news/50onews.txt

us: Middle school teacher indicted on child
pornography charges
A 38-year-old Gresham middle school teacher has
surrendered to US Marshals on child pornography
charges.
 http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=72565

us: Fremont man faces child pornography charges
A 25-year-old Fremont man whose home computer was
seized in April by Fremont Police detectives was
arrested for child pornography Tuesday.

http://www.fremontneb.com/articles/2004/11/11/news/news1.txt

us: Ex-Teacher Pleads Not Guilty To Possessing Child
Porn
A former Chula Vista high school math teacher pleaded
innocent today to felony charges of possessing,
importing and distributing child pornography.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kgtv/20041112/lo_kgtv/2453241

us: Child-porn trial rescheduled
The criminal trial of a former city resident on child
pornography charges has been rescheduled in U.S.
District Court.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/10160578.htm

us: Child porn suspect faces trial after 5 yrs
A child pornography case filed in 1999 against a then
Utah State University student finally reached a
preliminary hearing in 1st District Court on Wednesday
morning, and the man police accuse of committing
multiple acts of child sexual exploitation was bound
over for trial.

http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2004/11/11/news/news03.txt

us: Gresham teacher faces child porn charges
U.S. Immigration agents and Gresham Police have
charged a 38-year-old middle school teacher for child
pornography.
 http://www.kptv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2550171

us: Man guilty of rape, sexual torture of girl
A Talladega County jury of six men and six women took
just over half an hour to find a Lincoln man guilty of
rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and sexual torture of a
10-year-old girl Thursday following a four-day trial.
Sentencing is set for Jan. 26. Jonathan Shane Morrow
King, 34, is currently serving 33 months in federal
prison for possession of child pornography. The
federal charges stem from more than 1,000 images
downloaded from various Web sites found on his
computer during the course of investigating the state
charges.

http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2004/dh-talladegacounty-1112-cnorwood-4k11v0111.htm

us: Nucla man sentenced in child porn case nets
probation sentence
A Nucla man charged with sending child pornography by
computer to an undercover officer in Ohio has pleaded
guilty to a single misdemeanor count of sexual
exploitation of children.

http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2004/11/11/local_news/1.txt

us: Olton man charged with possession, transport of
child pornography
An Olton man has been indicted by the U.S. Attorney´s
Office on charges of possession and interstate
transportation of child pornography, six months after
a previous case against him was dropped, the Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal reported Saturday.

http://www.myplainview.com/n2w/parsed/stories/11142004Oltonpornogra.shtml

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