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general internet news - 2 February
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US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
Microsoft amends blog shutdown policies
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2006-01-31-microsoft-blog_x.htm
How to Outwit the World's Internet Censors
http://nytimes.com/2006/01/29/weekinreview/29basic.html
au/ng: Nigerian investment scam leads to seven million
dollar loss (news release)
http://police.qld.gov.au/News+and+Alerts/Media+Releases/2006/02/nigerian01.htm
us: Digital Dialogue: Is anyone afraid of Internet
anonymity?
http://iht.com/articles/2006/02/01/business/ptdigit02.php
Microsoft weighs in on Kama Sutra worm
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6033269.html
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Microsoft amends blog shutdown policies
Microsoft says it is setting new policies on shutting
down Web journals after its much-publicized squelching
of a well-known Chinese blogger at the request of
Chinese officials. Microsoft says it will make sites
available elsewhere if shut down by country.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2006-01-31-microsoft-blog_x.htm
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MICROSOFT_BLOGGING_CENSORSHIP
au: First global 'blogathon' for safer Internet
Safer Internet Day will take place on 7 February 2006.
Among the host of events taking place, NetAlert will
participate in a global ?blogathon? organised by
Insafe, the EU network for internet safety awareness.
http://netalert.net.au/02873-First-global-%E2%80%98blogathon%E2%80%99-for-safer-Internet.asp
How to Outwit the World's Internet Censors
When Google announced last week that it would censor
its new search service in China, the company became,
to many, the latest component in that country's
sophisticated system of information control.
http://nytimes.com/2006/01/29/weekinreview/29basic.html
Grow up, Google: you've accepted censorship, now
confront copyright
WHEN I WRITE about Google I have to declare an
interest. I am the chairman of a small academic
publisher; Pickering & Chatto was founded in 1820 and
refounded in 1983. We publish scholarly texts and
depend on our copyright for the sales of our books.
Google threatens that copyright, along with the whole
copyright structure of authors, editors and publishers
of printed books and, indeed, e-books.
Grow up, Google: you've accepted censorship, now
confront copyright
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LEGAL, SECURITY AND PRIVACY
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au/ng: Nigerian scammers fleece Australians
Police are staggered by the amount of money
Australians are losing to Nigerian investment
scammers.
http://smh.com.au/news/National/Nigerian-scammers-fleece-Australians/2006/02/01/1138590558732.html
au/ng: Nigerian investment scam leads to seven million
dollar loss (news release)
Nigerian schemers have netted over seven million
dollars from Queenslanders investing in bogus ventures
and facilitating fraudulent cheque scams.
http://police.qld.gov.au/News+and+Alerts/Media+Releases/2006/02/nigerian01.htm
au: Privacy under review
AUSTRALIA'S key law reform body has been asked to
investigate how privacy can be better protected in a
wired world.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18005540%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
au: SA moves on racist website
A WHITE supremacist group, which holds Jews, African
Americans and other minority groups as inferior, has
based part of its activities in Adelaide.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17995074%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
Newspapers take aim at Google in copyright dispute
A group representing global newspaper publishers has
launched a lobbying campaign to challenge search
engines like Google that aggregate news content.
http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/newspapers-take-aim-at-google-in-copyright-dispute/2006/02/01/1138590544864.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=11047056
US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating
glimpse into the US military's plans for "information
operations" - from psychological operations, to
attacks on hostile computer networks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
us: Group Sues AT&T Over Alleged Surveillance
A civil liberties group sued AT&T Inc. on Tuesday for
its alleged role in helping the National Security
Agency spy on the phone calls and other communications
of U.S. citizens without warrants.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DOMESTIC_SPYING_LAWSUIT
Microsoft weighs in on Kama Sutra worm
Microsoft in an e-mail Tuesday warned users to update
their antivirus protections against the Kama Sutra
worm, the mass-mailing virus slated to begin
corrupting files later this week.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6033269.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WORM_WARNING
us: What Would Dirty Harry Do?
By framing the eavesdropping debate as a manly-man
contest, Bush & Co. are distracting us from the
conversation we should be having about privacy.
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/news/imperialcity/15603/index.html
us: Google's data minefield
The US Government's broad subpoena to search engines
effectively seeks to mine the data of the internet.
While Google has resisted the subpoena, there may be
little they can do to protect our privacy from many
prying eyes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_subpoena_us_government/
us: Digital Dialogue: Is anyone afraid of Internet
anonymity?
Jonathan D. Glater of The New York Times wrote a
fascinating feature about the growing popularity of
software and services that allow Internet users to
remain anonymous.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/02/01/business/ptdigit02.php
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POLICY
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by: Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus
approves Information
Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus has
recently approved the Information protection scheme.
The national programme is aimed at creation of
statewide information security, development of new
technologies for information protection.
http://e-belarus.org/news/200601291.html
au: Australian media giants eye internet
Internet joint ventures and the dissemination of
content via PC and wireless devices will be the
strategic focus of Australia's traditional media
players whatever the outcome of the Federal
Government's proposed changes to media laws.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3558720a28,00.html
us: Little consensus on phone taps, Internet spying
As President Bush defends his controversial
warrantless surveillance program and Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales moves to gather information on
Internet searches from Google and other Internet
search engine companies, privacy and free-speech
advocates worry the government is intruding too far
into citizens? privacy.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060130/NEWS01/60129003/1001
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SPAM
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Latest "dirty dozen" spam sending countries revealed
Zombie networks responsible for over 60% of spam in
the world, says antispam vendor
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/18F8EB851B052FB2CC257108001084CA
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FILE SHARING
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British ISPs must turn in customer details
The U.K. High Court has ordered 10 Internet service
providers to hand over information of 150 customers
accused of illegally sharing and downloading desktop
software on the Web.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6033191.html
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=13073
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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us: Google stumbles with first earnings miss
Google's honeymoon with the stock market took a
breather on Tuesday as the search giant missed
earnings expectations for the first time since it went
public in 2004, sending its stock price into an
after-hours trading spiral.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6033519.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4668180.stm
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2019241,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/01/google_q4_2005/
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1699364,00.html
nz: In flight cellphone rules eased slightly
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted an
exemption to allow passengers to use cellphones during
flights ? but only in a limited capacity.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3557534a28,00.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/655768
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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us: Man claims outlawing child porn is censorship
A man who was jailed Monday for possessing child
pornography maintains the law against it is wrong and
constitutes government censorship.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0131porn-case31-ON.html
uk: Teacher charged over porn images
A mathematics teacher who left a Wiltshire private
school after a police investigation into internet porn
has appeared in court.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4665400.stm
uk: Student made porn pictures of children aged 3
A STUDENT who admitted downloading child internet
pornography was freed on probation because of the
delay in bringing his case to court.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=677236
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