general internet news - 31 October

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

.nz - Call for a comprehensive response to child porn
offending - NetSafe news release
The Internet Safety Group (ISG) today issued a call for a
more comprehensive response to the sentencing and treatment
of child pornography offenders.  An increasing number of
New Zealanders involved with illegal material are being
detected by the Department of Internal Affairs Censorship
Compliance, the New Zealand Police and the Customs Service.
 With 25 child pornography cases pending in the courts,
including an upcoming case involving a primary school
principal being heard on 24 October in Christchurch, the
ISG feels this issue needs to be addressed now.

http://www.netsafe.org.nz/isgnews/isgnews_141003childporn.asp

.nz - New Zealand Police and the Internet Safety Group
launch new e-crime education initiative - NetSafe news
release
Today in Wellington a new education campaign was launched
that will help New Zealanders understand what constitutes
electronic crime, what to do if victimised and practical
strategies for preventing e-crime.  This launch was timed
with the updating of the Crimes Act 1961 to deal with new
technologies which comes into effect today.
 http://www.netsafe.org.nz/isgnews/isgnews_11003police.asp

.au: Adelaide man fined over child porn
An Adelaide man has been fined $2,000 for possessing and
dealing in child pornography over the Internet.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s975947.htm

.ua - Concern about secret police bid to control the
Internet
Reporters Without Borders expressed alarm today at attempts
by the Ukrainian secret police (SBU) to take control of
Internet operations in the country and intercept e-mail
messages.
 http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=8359

Germans sorted for websites
GERMANY has more websites per inhabitant than any other
country, figures published by the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development showed.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7693399%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Brazil becomes a cybercrime lab
With a told-you-so grin, Marcos Flavio Assuncao reads out
four digits--an Internet banking password--that he has just
intercepted as a reporter communicates via laptop with a
bank's supposedly secure Web site.
 http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5097507.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/technology/27hack.html

Computer security divides Europe
Attitudes to what counts as hi-tech security problems vary
widely across Europe, a survey finds.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3223887.stm

How the web turned into a minefield
New EU legislation coming into force next week could turn
such innocuous activities as downloading files and playing
CDs into a criminal offence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1071541,00.html

China reins in Internet cafes
China is bringing its 'troublesome' Internet cafes under
the management of larger state-controlled firms

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/networks/0,39020345,39117412,00.htm

.au - Bill threatens workplace internet access
Australian employees could lose their internet access at
work in a management backlash against laws banning bosses
from secretly monitoring staff computer use.
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3531256

.uk - Phishing expedition hits four banks and building
societies
Four of the UK’s best-known financial institutions were
subject to internet scams this weekend. Customers of
Halifax, NatWest, Nationwide and Barclays were the targets
of an email and internet based fraud called 'phishing'.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=phishingexpedition1067342807

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1072478,00.html

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=458014

Study finds gaps in digital divide theory
Lack of access to the Internet and related digital
technologies is a problem not only in emerging markets but
also in advanced countries, a comparative study of eight
markets has shown.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20280342,00.htm

.us - Studies: 90 Percent of Kids Use Computers
About 90 percent of people ages 5 to 17 use computers and
59 percent of them use the Internet - rates that are, in
both cases, higher than those of adults. Even
kindergartners are becoming more plugged in: One out of
four 5-year-olds uses the Internet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36273-2003Oct29.html
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=5338

.au - Sydney man arrested over 'Nigerian' email scam
New South Wales police say they have achieved a world first
with an arrest in relation to a 'west African' or
'Nigerian' email fraud.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s978806.htm

How to beat the 419 scammers
So you think those wacky Nigerians who promise you
compensation for assistance in moving funds from foreign
countries to banks in Europe, are operating from scruffy
cyber-cafes in Lagos?
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33520.html

Spam Beginning to Hurt E-Mail Use, Report Says
The billions of "spam" messages that cross the Internet
daily are beginning to erode users' faith in e-mail
communications, according to a report released on
Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3670439

E-Mail Providers to Plan Ways to Stop Spam
Congress recently edged closer to passing the nation's
first law to curb e-mail spam, but those who work under the
Internet's hood are attacking the problem from another
angle.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38051-2003Oct29.html

British MP comes up with revolutionary plan to stop spam
A British MP, who is chairman of Britain's All Party
Internet Group, has come up with a revolutionary plan to
stop spam - by changing everybody's email address.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/29/1067233218227.html

.za - Local spam code of conduct being developed
The Marketing Federation of South Africa is putting
together a draft set of guidelines for the commercial use
of e-mail. This move follows a Spam Summit held in
Johannesburg last week where it was revealed that spam
currently costs South African companies between R7 billion
and R13.1 billion a year.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,68065,00.html

.nz - Spammer gets off the hook
Authorities won't take action against Christchurch spammer
Shane Atkinson, who reportedly admitted sending out up to
100 million emails a day worldwide, promoting penis
enlargement pills.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2705162a28,00.html

.kr - National Assembly Set to Fry Spam
The National Assembly held a discussion on Wednesday to
discuss the negative effects of "spam" e-mail messages and
to suggest policies to root out the problem.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200310/200310220021.html

Are filters the best solution for stopping spam?
We present two points of view -- yes to filters and no to
filters

http://cio.co.nz/cio.nsf/UNID/70F8612DD85A74B3CC256DCC00839068

Antispam methods aim to merge
A new group will try to reconcile competing methods to
thwart spam with a kind of caller ID for e-mail.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5096820.html

Outwitting spammers
Spam, the four-letter word of the virtual world, seems to
be on everyone's lips these days, from rank-and-file
workers to Congress and the British Parliament.

http://cio.co.nz/cio.nsf/UNID/83C36CB53FB14078CC256DCC0082088B

.us - Big Companies Add to Spam Flow
The antispam bill passed by the Senate may do little to
stop legitimate companies from sending so-called
white-collar spam.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/28/technology/28SPAM.html

Net's dark side dents broadband
People are so fed up with spam, porn and viruses that they
are put off high-speed broadband, says a study.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3217487.stm
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1146299

When Google puts a world out of whack
What do 'bathetic weasels,' 'gusseted hobbits' and
'zoroastrian chipmunks' have in common? Rather than being
characters in some new work of science fiction, they are
examples of a craze that has taken the internet by storm.
Take two obscure and unrelated words, type them into the
google search bar and if the result is a solitary web page
you have found a googlewhack. Googlewhacking, the search
for 'Result 1-1 of 1' on the internet's favourite search
engine, has become a pastime for everyone from bored office
workers to lexicographers and even Nasa scientists.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1071173,00.html

Israeli processor computes at speed of light
An Israeli company claims to have developed a processor
that computes at the speed of light because it uses optics
instead of silicon.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s978115.htm

SCO takes on open-source foundation
SCO Group has begun a direct challenge to the General
Public License, the legal foundation for Linux, numerous
other open-source programming projects and software SCO
still ships.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5098610.html

European Commission probes Microsoft licences
Antitrust regulators are gathering information from
computer hardware makers to determine whether Microsoft is
abusing its monopoly power.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39117484,00.htm

Brussels in new Microsoft probe
The European Commission has opened a new front in its
battle with Microsoft because of suspicions that the
software giant's licensing policy unfairly restricts
competition.

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1066565476225

Ultrawideband may end up royalty-free
 http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-5098712.html

City of Adelaide, Australia goes all WiFi
The Australian city of Adelaide has become the first city
in the world with a complete citywide Wi-fi network. The
Federal and local government invested $5.75m dollars in the
project in an attempt to attract more hi-tech business.
Launched on 17 September, the CitiLAN service will be free
to use until the end of October.
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2003/10/28.html#a300

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