general internet news - 14 August

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

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vn: Filtering in Vietnam emphasizes politics
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=50667

uk: Why internet crime has grown more lucrative than
the drug trade
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,,1841065,00.html

us/uk: BetOnSports to shut U.S. services
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/11/business/gambling.php

us: Govt. Joins Net Treaty That May Limit Rights in
U.S., Overseas
http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=3523

uk: Most UK youth on social networking sites
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f0317cfc-289b-11db-a2c1-0000779e2340.html

uk: Young people turn off TV and discard newspapers to
surf the net
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1842304,00.html

Brits adopt 'safe surfing' habits
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/09/bcs_computer_security_survey/
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=35800

nz: NZ television on threshold of a revolution
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10395996

The PC turns 25
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/10/1154803021680.html

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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us: NEW STUDY SHOWS YOUTH ONLINE EXPOSED TO MORE
SEXUAL MATERIAL AND HARASSMENT (news release)
A new national survey of online youth shows increases
in exposure to sexual material and harassment but less
sexual solicitation. However, aggressive
solicitations, those in which solicitors made or
attempted to make offline contact, did not decrease.
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2529

us: NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN
COMMENDS U.S. SENATE FOR THE RATIFICATION OF
CYBERCRIME TREATY
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
commends the U.S. Senate for ratifying the Council of
Europe?s Convention on Cybercrime.
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2522

us: Children less likely to encounter online predators
Despite the rise of social networking sites such as
MySpace, a smaller percentage of young people are
being sexually solicited online than five years ago.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2006-08-08-kids-online-survey_x.htm
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/812316

US kids subjected to more online porn
While US children are less likely to encounter sexual
predators online than in 2000, they are increasingly
being exposed to sexual material while surfing the net
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/11/us_kids_research/

Two new Childnet Guides for parents and carers (news
release)
Childnet have produced two new guides for parents and
carers on ?Searching the Internet? and ?Chatting
online? and child safety.
http://www.childnet-int.org/news/articles/0806.html

au: Bullies go online
EDUCATION experts have warned that local schools need
to crack-down on bullies using cyberspace to harass
and humiliate. They say vicious emails, SMS threats
and hate-sites have replaced school yard taunts in a
new form of abuse called cyber-bullying. Deakin
University Eduction Psychologist Helen McGrath cited
examples of tech-savvy kids superimposing the faces of
classmates onto pornographic images and posting them
on the internet or emailing them around the school.
http://www.geelonginfo.com/readarticle.asp?articleid=20597

ca: New school program will educate kids about online
luring
Internet safety will be part of the curriculum this
fall for Ontario students in grades 7 and 8. The
program, part of a provincial government strategy to
tackle internet luring and child pornography, will
combine the efforts of law enforcement officials,
crown attorneys and victim service providers to teach
kids how to avoid dangerous strangers on the net.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/08/07/ottinternet.html

cn: Web firms criticised over China
Internet firms have been criticised by UK MPs for
"collaborating" with state censorship of the web in
China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4787917.stm
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1842281,00.html

Search Engines Censured for Censorship
Activists want Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft to do
more to disclose to Chinese users how and why their
searches are being censored
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2006/gb20060810_220695.htm

vn: Filtering in Vietnam emphasizes politics
Looking at internet filtering practices in Vietnam,
one could conclude that the government was more
worried about politics than porn. University
researchers said in a report on Wednesday that the
practices ran counter to the government's own
statements.
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=50667
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/10/1154803020358.html
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2885&iArticleId=3384658
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=2403

Malaysian leaders carry quarrel into cyberspace
Cyberspace, one of the last true havens of free speech
in Malaysia, may soon fall victim to a squabble
between the country's two most powerful politicians,
with the government vowing to punish defamatory
remarks on Web sites.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6104639.html

Alarming Trends of Internet Pornography
Pornography on the Internet is a new kind of plague
spreading all over the world. It is seamlessly tearing
apart the fabrics of societies, visibly corrupting the
public morals, and damaging the institution of family.
It is also here in our society and every Web user is
aware of its presence.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/08/10/162856.php

The "other side" of Internet
Undoubtedly, Internet is the greatest invention of the
20th century. But like everything else, it also has a
darker and dangerous side. From Net crime to
addiction, it's a dangerous place out there on the
information superhighway.
http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2006/106081106.asp

nz: Bully game 'disgusting'
A new video game that encourages playground bullying
has been branded "disgusting" by a Hamilton social
worker.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3762932a28,00.html

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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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uk: Why internet crime has grown more lucrative than
the drug trade
Revelations of a flaw in HSBC's personal online
banking system has brought about the nightmare
scenario for any financial institution - potential
security failure. Fifteen years after the birth of the
world wide web, people are putting increasing amounts
of trust into the medium, and banks have thrown
corresponding levels of effort, expertise and cash
into their online security. Experts predict that by
the end of the decade the banking industry worldwide
will have spent £70bn on technology to support their
online services and other new methods.
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,,1841065,00.html

us/uk: BetOnSports to shut U.S. services
BetOnSports, an Internet gambling company based in
Britain that has been charged with fraud and
racketeering in the United States, said Friday that it
would shut down its services for American gamblers.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/11/business/gambling.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,29390-2308620,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/11/betonsports_leaves_us/

Social sites a breeding ground for malware: report
Social networking sites are behind a surge in viruses,
spyware and other "nasty stuff", according to web
security firm ScanSafe's monthly report.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/10/social_sites_breed_malware/

us: FBI experts trawl Web for pedophiles
It's dinner time. Family is at the table. Dad's
special phone rings. The man on the other end of the
phone wants to talk sex. Sex with a little girl. Dad
gets up from the dinner table and walks away, phone
pressed to his ear. This is the front line of the new
undercover war on child pornography ? a place where a
West Point graduate with a degree in computer
engineering has to step away from his own family's
dinner table and pretend to be a man interested in
trading a fictitious daughter for sex.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/0813metmolest.html

Google to keep storing search requests
Although he was alarmed by AOL's haphazard release of
its subscribers' online search requests, Google Inc.
CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday the privacy concerns
raised by that breach won't change his company's
practice of storing the inquiries made by its users.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15241913.htm

us: AOL gaffe draws Capitol Hill rebuke
AOL's recent privacy gaffe that exposed user search
histories may breathe new life into a proposal to slap
strict rules on what data Internet companies may
collect.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6104040.html

uk: Texting study to catch criminals
The individual styles of hundreds of people's text
messages will be analysed in a study that aims to help
police with criminal investigations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4780713.stm

de/at: German State Bans Online Bookmaker
Austrian-based online bookmaker Bwin faces complete
closure of its German business after the eastern
German state of Saxony revoked its licence. Bwin
officials have said they will fight the decision.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2128007,00.html

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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us: Govt. Joins Net Treaty That May Limit Rights in
U.S., Overseas
The US Senate last week ratified a treaty requiring
participating countries to share citizens? personal
digital data and aid each others? criminal
investigations, an arrangement privacy advocates say
will amount to increasing surveillance of Internet
users and the enforcement of foreign laws in the
United States.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=3523

us: CDT: "MySpace Bill" Would Block Valuable Internet
Content - Analysis
A bill that would force schools and libraries to block
access to online chat and social networking tools
would violate the constitution and prevent many
lower-income people from using valuable Internet
tools, according to a new CDT analysis released today.
The Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) -- often
called the "MySpace Bill" -- would require schools and
libraries to filter access to chat and social
networking tools or lose their federal e-rate funding.
Because chat and social networking are so deeply
ingrained in Internet communications, and are a part
of a great diversity of web sites, the legislation
could force librarians to cordon off vast amounts of
valuable Internet content. The bill would place the
Federal Communications Commission in the untenable
position of either ordering the blocking of all sites
with chat capability, or engaging in a clearly
unconstitutional process of picking which sites to
block
http://www.cdt.org/speech/20060811dopa.pdf

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uk: Most UK youth on social networking sites
More than half of the UK?s 16-24 year olds are using
social networking sites such as MySpace and Bebo at
least once a week, as the ?networked generation? turns
its back on television, radio and newspapers in favour
of online communities.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f0317cfc-289b-11db-a2c1-0000779e2340.html

uk: Young people turn off TV and discard newspapers to
surf the net
It will come as no surprise to Charles Allen and other
media executives, but young people are turning away
from television, radio and newspapers to surf the web.
A report by media regulator Ofcom found the average 16
to 24-year-old watched an hour's less TV a day than
older viewers last year.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1842304,00.html

Brits adopt 'safe surfing' habits
Nine in 10 Britons take security precautions when
surfing online, according to a new survey which goes
against previous research that suggested Britain was a
nation of cyber-security slackers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/09/bcs_computer_security_survey/
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=35800

nz: NZ television on threshold of a revolution
Kiwis will be able to watch their favourite TV
programmes over the internet within 18 months, says
Woosh.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10395996

us: Teens not rushing online to buy wine, survey shows
A year after the Supreme Court made it easier for
wineries to ship products to customers in a different
state, a new survey indicates that teens haven't
necessarily rushed to use the Internet to buy alcohol,
as critics of the court's decision have feared.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-08-09-survey-online-alcohol_x.htm

de: Bundesliga to Help Kick Internet-TV Into the
Future
Media experts in Germany are predicting that the start
of the new Bundesliga season on Friday will herald a
breakthrough in Internet-TV, thanks to Deutsche
Telekom's deal to broadcast the games online.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,1431,00.html

us: The Web Returns to Health
Ninety-five million Americans -- about 80 percent of
online adults -- have searched the Web for health
information in the past year, and the overwhelming
majority have been disappointed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080701152.html

Korean social-networking site hopes to nab U.S. fans
It's arguably one of the oldest and more successful
social-networking sites in the world, and it's now
coming to the U.S. Cyworld, a site based in South
Korea, kicked off a beta in the U.S. on July 27 and
later this month will formally begin a nationwide tour
to encourage Americans, particularly those in the age
18 to 29 demographic, to create personalized Web
pages, or "mini-homes," on the site.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6104794.html

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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The alliance against Google
What today's internet firms can learn from
19th-century history: PRINCE KLEMENS VON METTERNICH,
foreign minister of the Austrian Empire during the
Napoleonic era and its aftermath, would have no
trouble recognising Google. To him, the world's most
popular web-search engine would closely resemble the
Napoleonic France that in his youth humiliated Austria
and Europe's other powers. Its rivals?Yahoo!, the
largest of the traditional web gateways, eBay, the
biggest online auction and trading site, and
Microsoft, a software empire that owns MSN, a
struggling web portal?would look a lot like Russia,
Prussia, and Austria. Metternich responded by forging
an alliance among those three monarchies to create a
?balance of power? against France. Google's enemies,
he might say, ought now to do the same thing.
http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7277064

The PC turns 25
For those of us who grew up with computers, it might
seem that the beige box has been around forever, but
on Saturday morning you might like to wish your PC a
happy 25th birthday.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/10/1154803021680.html

PC turns 25? Apple may beg to differ
Today, as everybody kicks up their heels at the
offices of PC manufacturers worldwide celebrating the
25th anniversary of the desktop computer known as the
IBM PC, one wonders what Steve Jobs and the crew over
at Apple Computer must be thinking.
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5258/106/

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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How did the French suddenly get better broadband than
the UK?
The French reputation for broadband superiority rests
mainly on a start-up company called Iliad. This
provides more than a million French subscribers with a
"triple play" package called Free, which includes 81
TV channels, unlimited phone calls within France and
to other 14 countries, plus 24 megabits internet for
just ?29.99 (£20) a month.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1840382,00.html

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uk: VoIP takes off
Internet telephony is ready to hit the big time in the
UK, thanks to a surge in broadband uptake and the
introduction of devices that don't require a PC
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/broadband/0,39020342,39280727,00.htm

uk: Internet calls surge
Nearly two million UK households use web-based phone
services
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20409-2307937,00.html

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au: Child porn, rape charges arrest
A 29-YEAR-old man from the north Queensland city of
Cairns has been arrested on more than 160 child
pornography and child sex charges, including four of
child rape.
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20096649-1702,00.html

uk: Computer expert faces jail over 'made-up' child
porn images
A COMPUTER expert who altered indecent images of naked
women to make them look like children has been warned
that he faces a prison sentence.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2306067,00.html

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