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general internet news - December 2
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: No to filtering: Coonan
THE Federal Government had rejected mandatory
filtering of the internet to stop child pornography,
Parliament was told today.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11555864%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e15306,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39168562,00.htm
au: Optus porn role exposed
OPTUS has a dirty little secret - a highly lucrative
business based on internet phone pornography lines
that has been exposed in a Supreme Court judgment
against the nation's second-biggest telecommunications
company.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11551707%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
Group warns of text abuse (reg req'd)
Legislation making it easier for police to search
email, voice and text messages is likely to meet
little resistance, minor parties and digital rights
groups say
http://smh.com.au/news/National/Group-warns-of-text-abuse/2004/11/30/1101577489926.html
Google urged to react after Chinese authorities block
Google News
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the action
of the Chinese authorities in blocking access to
Google's news website, Google News, for the past ten
days or so, starting a few weeks after the launch of
an expurgated Chinese-language version of Google News.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11968
China 'blocks Google news site'
China has been accused of blocking access to Google
News by the media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4056255.stm
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5470821.html
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=6951891
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=9001179
Australia watches as Kiwis go postal on violent game
A computer game described by New Zealand's censor as
allowing a player to "test how much violence and
humiliation" he or she can inflict on others has not
been submitted for classification in Australia, the
federal government said.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39168554,00.htm
au: Cyberbullies Turn Technology Against Their Victims
The 12-year-old girl was getting annoying phone calls
from a schoolmate. Her mother blocked the calls with
caller ID. Her harasser then started sending annoying
instant messages on the computer and had other
students do the same.
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/ocrowley112904.html
us: Cyber Bullying
It seems like there's always a new term coming up
involving computer users. Cyber Bullying is one of the
latest. Many children know about it and so do school
counselors. They say bullies who use the computer can
be even more harmful than on the ones on the
playground.
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1110522.html
us: Assembly focuses on peer problems
Teasing and bullying used to be considered a normal
part of a child's school experience.
http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/120104/loc_20041201023.shtml
uk: SonicWall in filtering push
Security vendor SonicWall is drumming up channel
business for its latest content filtering appliance,
which is tailored to the SME market.
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1159692
us: CIA to Spy On Chat Rooms
The documents were obtained by the Electronic Privacy
InformatioN Center and disclose a funding relationship
whereby projects were funded by the National Science
Foundation using money provided by the CIA. It turns
out that the chat-room surveillance project was
reported earlier this year, but nobody knew that the
CIA was behind it until recently.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1661
ir: Five webloggers jailed
Reporters Without Borders has strongly protested
against the Iran's relentless efforts to stifle free
expression online after the arrest of five webloggers
in less than two months, the latest on 28 November
2004.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11978
ir: Cyberjournalist Rozbeh Mir Ebrahimi released from
prison
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release on bail
on 26 November of Rozbeh Mir Ebrahimi, former
political editor of the daily Etemad. He had been
arrested at his home on 27 September 2004 for
contributing to reformist Internet websites.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11822
jp: Internet y la pornografía responsables del
descenso de ventas de preservativos en japón
Como lo leen. La primera porque si tienes internet
para qué quieres sexo. Y la segunda, porque la gente
aprender que es mejor hacerlo sin preservativo. Vamos,
que por explicaciones que noquede.
"Since the advent of the broadband Internet in Japan,
people can connect the entire night without having any
extra charges," said a spokeswoman for top condom
maker Okamoto Industries. "Those people who cannot
break away from their computers are not able to have
sex," she said.
http://www.noticias.com/index.php?action=mostrar_articulo&id=61919&IDCanal=1
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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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au: Child porn users traced
PERVERTS who download internet child pornography have
been warned their "electronic DNA" will help police
trace them.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11547073%255E421,00.html
au: Government launches anti-cyberterrorism campaign
The government is seeking help from the IT community
to help identify and plug vulnerabilities in
Australia’s critical infrastructure to protect
citizens from cyber terrorism.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39168444,00.htm
au: ISPs 'must do more' to combat cybercrime
The CTO of betting exchange Betfair says that more
cross-industry cooperation is needed to prevent
denial-of-service attacks.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39168288,00.htm
au: Optus porn role exposed
OPTUS has a dirty little secret - a highly lucrative
business based on internet phone pornography lines
that has been exposed in a Supreme Court judgment
against the nation's second-biggest telecommunications
company.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11551707%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e15306,00.html
au: Law lags as underworld goes online
Technology is playing a huge role in the way organised
crime is developing throughout the world and law
enforcers struggle to keep up. Traditional forms of
organised crime - such as gambling, street
prostitution and handling of stolen property - had
progressed to internet gambling, internet prostitution
and theft of intellectual property.
http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/11/29/1101577418507.html
au: 2004: The biggest cases
The biggest IT legal cases of the year in Australia.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Next/2004-The-biggest-cases/2004/11/29/1101577387280.html
il: Ireland lifts scam call block order
A block order on direct dial telephone calls from
Ireland to 13 countries introduced last month to crack
down on growing internet scams has been lifted by the
country's communications regulator.
http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Ireland-lifts-scam-call-block-order/2004/12/01/1101577522147.html
uk: Call for action on internet scam
Phone companies are not doing enough to warn customers
about internet "rogue-dialling" scams, according to
premium phone line regulator Icstis.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4050805.stm
uk: Mothers fear partners are seeking child
pornography
FRIGHTENING numbers of adults are calling a child
protection helpline with concerns that their partners
are downloading child porn.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=14930373&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=----mothers-fear-partners-are-seeking-child-pornography-name_page.html
ca: Babysitting way to recruit victims, Montreal dad
tells child-porn chat lines
Babysitting can be used as an opportunity to lure
young children into sex, a man accused of sexually
assaulting his daughter and spreading juvenile
pornography on the Internet bragged during chat room
conversations.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20041130/ca_pr_on_na/crime_child_porn_1
us: ‘Travelers’ from Net go to young targets
Three months later, it ended in a North Little Rock
parking lot with the arrest of a 73-yearold Ohio man —
a self-described "pillar of the community" — on child
pornography and attempted rape charges.
http://www.nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg§ion=News&storyid=100212
us: Payday lenders use Internet to avoid law
Short-term "payday" lenders are increasingly using the
Internet to circumvent state laws, charging annual
interest rates as high as 780% and automatically
debiting late fees and other charges from customer
bank accounts, according to a new study.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-12-01-usurious-lending-online_x.htm?csp=34
us: Pirate Site Socked, P2P Suits Blocked
While one federal judge in California slapped a
Malaysian Web site owner for letting site members view
pirated films, another federal judge in California
blocked the movie industry from pursuing all but one
of a first round of suits against peer-to-peer file
swappers.
http://avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=207025
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POLICY
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us: Amazon keeps kids' data under wraps, regulators
say
Amazon.com's virtual toy store is perfectly legal
because it doesn't ask children to type in personal
information, federal regulators have decided.
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5470145.html
au: Take-down notices set to bite
INTERNET service providers will retain access to local
"safe harbour" rules that limit liability for customer
breaches of copyright under new laws designed to seal
the Free Trade Agreement with the US.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11538653%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
au: Senate passes email spy bill
SPY and law enforcement agencies will be able to snoop
on suspected terrorists and criminals emails, SMS
messages and voicemail under a measure passed by the
upper house - but only for the next year.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11542596%5E15347%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
us: DOJ’s Anti-Porn Efforts Well-Funded for 2005
The final piece of funding for an anticipated
crackdown on the Adult industry by the Department of
Justice (DOJ) was included in the last minute, $388
billion omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress
a few weeks ago. Congress approved the FBI’s request
for ten new agents and almost $2 million earmarked for
investigations in support of the DOJ’s Criminal
Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section
(CEOS).
http://avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=207208
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SPAM
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'World's first' spam system trial
THE communications regulator has teamed with ISP
Pacific Internet to run what it claims to be a world's
first spam reporting trial.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11554066%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
il: Govt to outlaw spam
The government is preparing a bill that would outlaw
unsolicited mail sent through the Internet known as
spam. The bill is currently being handled by the
Communications Ministry, and is based on the European
approach which bans a company from sending mass
e-mails unless the recipient has categorically
expressed approval beforehand for receiving such mail.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/505443.html
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INTERNET USE
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uk: ONS paints an increasingly wired picture of
Britain
The Office of National Statistics' annual report on
the nation's habits reveals increasing Internet access
and mobile phone use amongst the population
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39175559,00.htm
uk: Broadband take-up hits 50%
The majority of UK internet users now have broadband
connections at home, according to new figures released
today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1362704,00.html
Teens in Canada using Internet to socialize, new
survey finds
A "surprising" number of young people in Canada are
choosing the Internet to connect to other people,
making socializing the most popular online activity
amongst teens in this country, a new survey suggests.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20041130/ca_pr_on_tc/teens_internet_use_1
uk: Coming soon from BT ... films
BT unveils plans to bring music, gaming, television
and films over broadband internet to UK homes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Media/site/story/0,14173,1362556,00.html
us: Web Won't Let Government Hide
Advocates for open government are creating search
engines and websites to let citizens peek into the
inner workings of official agencies. Now more than
ever, they say, openness is essential to
self-government.
http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65800,00.html
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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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jp: Man sentenced over downloads
A JAPANESE court has sentenced a self-employed man to
a one year suspended jail term for allowing free
downloads of two popular Hollywood films through a
popular file-sharing software program.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11553851%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
au: Kazaa's parent takes another legal beating
The music industry has launched another swingeing
attack on Sharman Networks in an Australian courtroom
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39175358,00.htm
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39168449,00.htm
au: Kazaa can track downloads, court hears
A SYDNEY-based internet software company that can ban
users who access child pornography should also be able
to track music that is illegally downloaded, a court
was told today.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11538034%255E1702,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/30/kazaa_trial_day_two/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=8501126
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1362773,00.html
http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65860,00.html
jp: Accused Internet file-swapper found guilty
Man arrested last year on copyright charges for
disseminating films on Internet given a three-year
suspended sentence
http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041130.gtswapnov30/BNStory/Technology/
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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New Netscape embraces Firefox, IE
In the market for a hybrid engine? Netscape's new Web
browser might be just the ticket. As of 8 a.m. PST
Tuesday, Netscape fans were test-driving a prototype
Netscape browser that runs on two different browsing
engines: the Mozilla Foundation's Gecko engine, which
powers up the Mozilla, Firefox and older Netscape
browsers, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer engine,
which many consider the de facto Web standard.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5470378.html
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Man curious of child porn
A YOUTH worker downloaded graphic child porn on to his
work computer because he was "just curious", a court
heard yesterday.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11541674%255E2862,00.html
uk: Man pleads guilty in cybersex case
A man has pleaded guilty to having "cybersex" with a
13-year-old girl in what is believed to be the first
case of its kind in Scotland.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1362380,00.html
no: Judge 'glad' he was convicted for child porn
A 51-year-old judge was sentenced on Monday to five
months in jail for possessing and distributing 93
movies and 664 photos featuring child pornography.
http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1101736440619B235
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/11/30/technology/9534319&sec=technology
http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Judge-jailed-for-distributing-child-porn/2004/11/30/1101577455736.html
ie: Judge Curtin faces PC seizure order
The Cork-based circuit court judge Brian Curtin is to
be served with an order to hand over his computer and
discs.
http://www.utvinternet.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=53575&pt=n
us: Brookfield man ordered imprisoned for child-porn
A Linn County man has been sentenced to 27 years in
federal prison for making child pornography featuring
underage girls and for unlawfully possessing firearms.
http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2004/12/01/news_state/1130040017.txt
us: Man Faces 100 Counts Of Possessing Child Porn
A man in Lake County, Fla., who allegedly met children
in online chatrooms faces more than 100 counts of
possessing child pornography, according to Local 6
News.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20041130/lo_wkmg/2475702
us: Man gets 80 years for rape and child porn
A Sioux Falls man who admitted to repeatedly raping a
young girl has been sentenced to 80 years in prison.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10304003.htm
us: Court Overturns Sentence In Macalaster Child
Pornography Case
The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday reversed the up
to 6 1/2-year sentence of a Macalaster College student
caught with thousands of pornographic images of
children on his dorm room computer.
http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_335173349.html
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/10304848.htm
us: Convicted Sex Offender Back Behind Bars For Child
Porn
A convicted sex offender is back behind bars. Agents
say he was involved in a child pornography ring and
collected hundreds of pictures in his Lake County
home. Now, investigators are starting their search for
local victims.
http://www.wftv.com/news/3955937/detail.html
us: Rapid City man pleads guilty to child porn charges
A Rapid City man facing multiple child porn charges
pleads guilty today.
http://www.kotatv.com/localnews/story.asp?ID=20155
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/11/30/news/local/news09.txt
us: Child rapist gets life in prison
A Haskell man will go to prison for life after
pleading guilty today to numerous counts of rape (of
boys) and child pornography.
http://www.bentoncourier.com/articles/2004/11/29/news/25fnews.txt
us: Belfast man sentenced for child porn; Probation,
time served for Internet photo trading
A Belfast man was convicted of promoting a sexual
performance of a child Monday for trading pictures of
underaged girls on the Internet in March.
http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/articles/2004/11/30/local_news/news00.txt
us: Man pleads in porn case
A rural Rapid City man charged with 29 counts of
possessing child pornography pleaded guilty Monday in
7th Circuit Court.
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/11/30/news/local/news09.txt
us: Former Pleasantville councilman sentenced on child
porn charges
A former Pleasantville Borough councilman sentenced in
federal court in Erie Tuesday to 46 months in jail on
a child pornography conviction said he made a mistake
and he hopes to remain active in his community.
http://www.thederrick.com/stories/12012004-3008.shtml
us: Lake County sex offender behind bars again for
child porn
Investigators are starting their search for local
victims of a convicted sex offender who is back behind
bars.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/news-article.aspx?storyid=28548
http://www.local6.com/news/3956919/detail.html
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