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general internet news - 21 July
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: Kids test the rules of chat rooms
AUSTRALIA'S telcoms carriers may have to monitor their
mobile chat rooms to see if they comply with industry
regulations designed to protect children.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15973922%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
kr: Internet real name system may not be effective
Now appears to be a good time to push for the Internet
real-name system, which will force South Korean Web
surfers to provide their identification data to make
online postings.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=26926
my: Porn sites: Najib calls for self-regulation
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
called on the private sector, schools and cybercafe
operators to take it upon themselves to prevent the
accessing of pornographic websites on their premises.
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2005/7/19/technology/20050719143230&sec=technology
Safe-KIDS: promising new tool for catching traders of
child porn
BayTSP, a company that specializes in online
surveillance of intellectual property, has a new tool
for catching those who trade child pornography over
the web. It is called Safe-KIDS.
http://www.bloggingbaby.com/entry/1234000920050990/
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050718/185845.html
Video game porn accessible on your child's PlayStation
2
NewsChannel 3 is uncovering new information about
hidden pornography in one of your child's favorite
video games. We're showing you how easy it is to get
their hands on. We have more tonight on what parents
need to watch out for.
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3609640
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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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au: AusCERT threatened by anti-cyberterrorism plans
The future of the Australian Computer Emergency
Response Team (AusCERT) is uncertain after the
government implemented plans to create a national
computer emergency readiness team (GovCERT) to deal
with cyberterrorism attacks.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/AusCERT_threatened_by_anti_cyberterrorism_plans/0,2000061744,39203240,00.htm
in: Three held over mobile porn (reg req'd)
Indian police have arrested three men in central India
for allegedly downloading pornographic clips onto
their mobile phones.
http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/three-held-over-mobile-porn/2005/07/18/1121538896733.html
us: 10th CSI/FBI Survey Shows Cybercrime Losses Down
For Fourth Straight Year
The Computer Security Institute (CSI) announced today
the results of its 10th annual Computer Crime and
Security Survey: average cybercrime losses are down.
http://gocsi.com/press/20050714.jhtml;jsessionid=5RV0JKT1HWOOSQSNDBCCKH0CJUMEKJVN
us: SPCA Head Faces Criminal Charges
The head of the Rhode Island Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to animals is facing criminal
charges.
http://www.turnto10.com/news/4738726/detail.html
ca: In Canada: Cache a page, go to jail?
A bill before Canada's Parliament could make it
illegal for search engines to cache Web pages, critics
say, opening the door to unwarranted lawsuits and
potentially hindering public access to information.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5793659.html
us: FBI Monitored Web Sites for 2004 Protests
FBI agents monitored Web sites calling for protests
against the 2004 political conventions in New York and
Boston on behalf of the bureau's counterterrorism
unit, according to FBI documents released under the
Freedom of Information Act.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700889.html
us: ISPs versus the zombies
Internet service providers face mounting pressure to
keep their networks free of pests--not only for the
benefit of their customers, but also for the good of
the Internet in general.
http://news.com.com/ISPs+versus+the+zombies/2100-7349_3-5793719.html
Nigerian pleads guilty in $242m bank email scam
A Nigerian court has sentenced a woman to two and half
years in jail after she pleaded guilty to fraud
charges in the country's biggest email scam case.
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39150523,00.htm
http://news.com.com/Nigerian+pleads+guilty+in+e-mail+fraud/2100-7348_3-5792425.html
us: Lawyer's E-Mail Used Against Him in Malpractice
Suit
Real estate attorney James A. Gober presumably wanted
only a few colleagues at Arnall Golden Gregory to read
an e-mail in which he wrote that he may have made a $1
million malpractice mistake. Instead, Gober's
electronic missive is now a key piece of evidence in a
suit against the Atlanta law firm. In the e-mail,
quoted in the malpractice suit, Gober wrote in part,
"I completely overlooked an important recent decision
that dramatically changed the landlord-tenant law."
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1121763922638
us: Prosecuting online child porn not easy
Eleven pornographic images - some girls, some boys,
some of both, one from Missouri, 10 from around the
world, all graphically sexual in nature. A 48-year-old
Bradenton man, officials say, was trading them online
like baseball cards.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/12153766.htm
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POLICY
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European lawmakers mull Net policies
Seven members of the European Parliament traveled to
Washington, D.C., this week to mull over policies
related to the Internet and the international digital
economy. Topics of discussion ranged from intellectual
property rights, spyware and spam to Internet
governance and telecom industry regulations.
http://news.com.com/European+lawmakers+mull+Net+policies/2110-1028_3-5795350.html
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SPAM
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UK regulator wants powers to stop the spammers
The Office of the Information Commissioner (ICO),
enforcer of the UK's main anti-spam laws, has received
around 600 spam complaints in the past 12 months. But
it has taken no legal action, in part because its
powers are inadequate and impractical.
http://out-law.com/page-5918
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/20/uk_regulator_seeks_power_to_stop_spammers/
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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Unesco defends freedom of information on net
The director-general of the United Nations Scientific,
Educational and Cultural Organisation has called for
the ?lesser-used languages? of the world to be given
more visibility on the internet.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/B615D2E3C9A739C2CC257042001F4D1E
Cellphone sales seen at over 1 bln
Mobile phone sales will exceed one billion handsets a
year by 2009 as they become the most common consumer
electronics device with 2.6 billion people using one
by then, according to a survey published on Wednesday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=9121229
UK prefers broadband to dial-up
Broadband has officially overtaken dial-up as the most
popular way for Britons to connect to the internet,
government statistics show.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4696613.stm
us: Apple passes Lenovo in U.S. computer sales
Apple Computer moved up a notch to become the No.4
seller of personal computers in the United States in
the second quarter as Macintosh sales soared by
one-third, according to two reports.
http://iht.com/articles/2005/07/19/business/pcsales.php
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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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au: Internet industry plays down music liability
verdict
Australia's peak Internet body and a former music
industry legal counsel have downplayed the industry
ramifications of a recent Federal Court ruling against
an Internet service provider (ISP) and a customer over
music copyright breaches.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Internet_industry_plays_down_music_liability_verdict/0,2000061791,39202964,00.htm
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Hewlett-Packard cuts 14,500 staff
Hewlett-Packard is to lay off about one in ten of its
workers as part of its long-awaited restructuring.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4696567.stm
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1700788,00.html
COMMENT: HP's job cuts: a false economy?
Hewlett-Packard may be inviting trouble with its plans
to cut 14,500 jobs worldwide
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1700325,00.html
News Corp in $580m internet buy
News Corp, the company run by media mogul Rupert
Murdoch, has made one of its first major internet
purchases.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4695495.stm
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9100373
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1532299,00.html
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Child porn addict 'couldn't stand guilt'
A MAN overcome with guilt about his addiction to child
pornography gave himself up to police so he could get
help, a court was told yesterday.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15990160-421,00.html
ca: Surfing for sex jails man
ANOTHER ONLINE child-sex surfer was sentenced to six
months in jail yesterday at Old City Hall -- the
second Internet luring case in less than a week.
http://torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2005/07/19/1138083-sun.html
us: Two-year investigation brings 6,000 arrests of
child predators
A two-year international investigation has resulted in
more than 6,000 arrests of alleged child molesters,
sex tourists, Internet child pornographers and human
traffickers, federal officials announced Tuesday.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/19/state/n141400D26.DTL
us: Arrest leads authorities to porn network
The Montgomery Village man charged with sexually
abusing two boys and selling pornographic images of
them on the Internet had at least three other victims
and may have exchanged child pornography within a
network stretching across the United States, police
say.
http://www.gazette.net/200529/gaithersburg/news/285256-1.html
us: Child pornography trial postponed until fall
The trial for a man accused of making child
pornography with hidden video cameras has been put off
until fall.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/city/j20courts.htm
us: Lynn car salesman arraigned on child pornography
charges
A Lynn car salesman, formerly of Swampscott, who
allegedly possessed hundreds of child pornography
disks and apparently posted them on the Internet, is
free on $7,500 cash bail after being arraigned Tuesday
morning in Salem Superior Court.
http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/news/view.bg?articleid=9651
us: Police: Professor Charged With Possession Of Child
Pornography
A psychology and sociology professor surrendered to
Berks County authorities Monday on charges of
possessing child pornography, police said.
http://kyw.com/Local%20News/local_story_199224222.html
us: Tipster's Call Leads To Child Porn Charges
A Johnson County man faces charges of possessing child
pornography on a laptop computer, KMBC's Dan Weinbaum
reported Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kmbc/20050719/lo_kmbc/2834126
us: Webster guilty in child porn case
A local man will face at least five years in prison
and lose his Owensboro home after a jury found him
guilty of federal child pornography crimes Tuesday in
U.S. District Court in Owensboro.
http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/kentucky/8677203.htm
us: Former Teacher On Probation For Child Porn
A former acting assistant principal at Bonita Vista
High School was placed on three years probation Monday
for possessing child pornography on his home computer.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kgtv/20050718/lo_kgtv/2832028
us: Negaunee Man Pleads Guilty To Child Porn
A Negaunee man has pleaded guilty to distributing
child pornography by computer. 49-year-old Daniel
Forsgren entered the plea in Federal Court.
http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=3615430
us: Man Accused of Having Child Porn Allegedly
Frequented Pool
A 29-year-old Olathe man was accused of having child
pornography on his computer.
http://www.kctv.com/global/story.asp?s=3612873
us: Local Professor Surrenders On Child Porn Charges
Police say a psychology and sociology professor
surrendered to Berks County authorities today on
charges of possessing child pornography.
http://www.nbc10.com/news/4740580/detail.html
http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14881005
us: USF Library Patron Used Web To View Child Porn,
Police Say
University of South Florida police arrested a Tampa
man at the university library Sunday after patrons
reported seeing him looking at child pornography on a
computer, police said.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB33BIJBBE.html
us: Investigation Continues in Child Porn Case
Investigators in Harrison County say they've
identified a second suspect in a child porn case.
http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=4015
us: Investigation nets child predator arrests
A two-year international investigation has resulted in
more than 6,000 arrests of alleged child molesters,
sex tourists, Internet child pornographers and human
traffickers, federal officials announced Tuesday.
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/12177229.htm
us: Child Pornography Investigation
A Clarksburg man is in jail after police found child
pornography on his computer.
http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=3966
us: Negaunee Man Pleads Guilty To Child Porn
A Negaunee man has pleaded guilty to distributing
child pornography by computer. 49-year-old Daniel
Forsgren entered the plea in Federal Court.
http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=3615430
us: Delaware Man Sentenced in Child Pornography Case
A Delaware man has been sentenced to nearly six years
in prison for sending pictures of children engaged in
sex acts to a postal inspector.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0705/244527.html
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