general internet news - 6 November

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

'Computer games can be as addictive as drugs'  2003-11-05
13:54:53
Scientists say that computer gaming "has a potency that
offers a new psychological experience" and stimulates the
same areas of the brain as alcohol and other drugs.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1067970422927B232

.uk - Race to save new victims of child porn
Computer file sharing has sent paedophile demand for
real-time images soaring. But, as Audrey Gillan reports,
police can often only watch as children grow older and
continue to be abused.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,1077260,00.html

Web 'grooming' sentences upped
Jail terms for paedophiles convicted of the "grooming" of
children will be a maximum of ten years - after MPs agreed
a radical shake-up of sex crime laws which date back to
Victorian times.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3236571.stm

.au - Pedophiles haunt children's chatrooms: police
Children who spend hours in internet chatrooms could be
talking to pedophiles without their parents realising it,
law enforcement agencies say.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/05/1067989608881.html

.za - Cops crack whip on Internet kiddy porn
Every day 200 more pornographic images involving children
are made available on the Internet. And some paedophile
rings initiate new members by having them post 10 000
original images of child porn online. But South African
police want the perpetrators to know that they will be
caught.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=vn20031104032642121C311900

Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting
While critics in the United States grow more concerned each
day about the insecurity of electronic voting machines,
Australians designed a system two years ago that addressed
and eased most of those concerns: They chose to make the
software running their system completely open to public
scrutiny.
 http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.html

Safer Internet
The November 2003 (No.30) Safer internet newsletter for
Awareness Raisers in the EU Safer Internet programme is now
available.
 http://www.saferinternet.org/news/safer30.htm
 http://www.saferinternet.org/downloads/Safer30.pdf

Pedófilo é preso por procurar meninas na web - Renata
Mesquita, do Plantão INFO
Dexter, que tem 60 anos e dirige desde 1979 a Trevor Day
School, foi preso em sua casa e depois liberado sob fiança
de 25 mil dólares. Segundo o jornal New York Post, o
colégio, que foi fundado em 1930 e oferece desde o berçário
até o Ensino Médio, tem uma excelente fama em Nova York.

http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/novidades/noticias/index.asp?id=2109

New York man pleads guilty to Internet death threat
A former Veterans Administration law enforcement officer
from New York state will serve six months of home
confinement for threatening to kill a Rapid City woman
through e-mail.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-11-04-death-threat-guilty_x.htm

Police issue internet gun warning
Criminals are using the internet and postal system to bring
guns into the UK, senior police officers have warned.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3242371.stm

Cyberterrorism: More sophisticated than past worms
No hard evidence exists that shows a cyberterrorism attack
on the U.S., but when such an attack comes, it is likely to
be much more harmful than the current crop of relatively
unsophisticated viruses and worms that have caused billions
of dollars in damages, a cybersecurity expert said Monday.

http://security.itworld.com/4337/031104cyberworm/page_1.html

Internet Littered With Dead Web Sites
Despite the Internet's ability to deliver information
quickly and frequently, the World Wide Web is littered with
deadwood , sites abandoned and woefully out of date.

http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=45670

Most Countries' Web Sites Are Ignored
Most of the world's nations have their own Web sites, but
only 20 percent of people with Internet access use them,
according to a U.N. report released Tuesday. ... The United
States led the rankings of e-government "readiness". ...
Sweden ranked second, followed by Australia, Denmark, Great
Britain, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Germany and Finland.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=5408
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2716468a28,00.html

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7180273.htm

.us - FCC Moves to Squash Digital TV Piracy Online
U.S. communications regulators on Tuesday approved new
rules designed to strictly limit sending digital television
programs over the Internet, attempting to head off problems
plaguing the music industry.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3754749

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=268110

Paris Court Convicts Jewish Man Over Web Hate Call
A French court on Tuesday sentenced a Jewish extremist to a
suspended four month jail term for inciting racial hatred
against French Jewish celebrities he branded "anti-Israeli"
on his Web site.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3753014

Scholars, Rights Group Protest China Web Writer's Arrest
Several dozen Chinese academics, reporters and scholars
have called on Beijing to release detained
"cyber-dissident" Du Daobin and protect freedom of speech.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=3747426
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8453 (eng)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8452 (fra)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8454 (esp)

The New Civic Virtue of the Net: Lessons from Models of
Cyberspace by David Post & David Johnson
Who should the law-makers of cyberspace be? Who should be
setting the rules that apply to conduct in the new global
medium of cyberspace? What polity or polities should we
look to as a source of legitimate and welfare-enhancing
rules for conduct on the net?

http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Working_Papers/97_Post_1/index.htm

.za - The State 'At Disadvantage' in Internet Cases
The state will always be at a disadvantage in prosecuting
Internet-related crimes, especially if the accused use
novel defences that involve technical issues, says e-lawyer
Steven Ferguson.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200311040801.html

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/computers/0,2172,68499,00.html

.es - Nueva Ley General de Telecomunicaciones
Hoy entra en vigor la nueva Ley General de
Telecomunicaciones . (Ley 32/2003, de 3 de Noviembre,
General de Telecomunicaciones)
http://www.mcyt.es/grupos/grupo_legislacion.htm La nueva
Ley General de Telecomunicaciones, ya publicada en el BOE,
sustituye a la que ha estado vigente desde 1998 y traspone
las directivas comunitarias que existen en esta materia.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/106803380452593.shtml

.au - Detenido un hombre autor de la estafa nigeriana por
la policía australiana
El presunto coautor de dicha estafa tiene 39 años y está
acusado de estafar a decenas de internautas, entre los que
se incluye un jeque árabe.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/106786514952858.shtml

Conference on CyberSecurity, Research, and Disclosure at
Stanford Law School's CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY,
22/11/03
This conference explores the relationship between computer
security, privacy, and disclosure of information about
security vulnerabilities.
 http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/security

The use of the Internet for political action by non-state
dissident actors in the Middle East by W. Sean McLaughlin
This paper examines how non-state dissident actors in the
Middle East use the Internet for political action in the
face of state-imposed constraints on Internet access.
Non-state dissident actors have revisionist goals and the
Internet offers certain advantages for accomplishing these
political objectives. States seek to limit the
effectiveness of these dissident objectives and can use
various methods, such as limiting Internet infrastructure
or imposing censorship constraints, in efforts to oppose
Internet-based dissidence. In response, dedicated
dissidents can find ways to overcome these state-imposed
constraints and continue with their dissident activities.
Based on this understanding, this paper develops a dynamic
model for Internet-based dissidence and then applies it to
three different case studies: The Muslim Brotherhood in
Jordan, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the Movement
for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA). All three case study
groups used the Internet in a surprisingly competent and
sophisticated manner, overcoming the various state-imposed
constraints on their activities. That non-state dissidents
in the Middle East have successfully used the Internet for
political dissidence may have important implications for
the political landscape in the region.

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_11/mclaughlin/index.html

.au - Law via the Internet 2003
5th Conference on Computerisation of Law via the Internet.
Law via the Internet 2003 will present over 40 papers by
experts from 12 countries over two days. Session topics
will range from issues of global access to law, to
practical issues of court computerisation and legal
knowledge management, to technical issues in improving the
quality of caselaw and legislation, to the social and
educational impacts of law on the Internet. A draft
programme is now available.
 http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/

Understanding the e-Government of the European Union
A comparative analysis with the e-Government policies supra
national Organizations

http://www.eurocities.org/eurocities/Documents/eGov.Alabau.pdf

Reforming Chinese Telecommunications Law: An Incremental
Approach from the Sydney University Law Review
China has achieved a dramatic economic transition under the
leadership of successive Presidents Deng Xiaoping and Jiang
Zemin. From 1978, the traditional Chinese agricultural
economy, based on communist command structures, has been
transformed into a socialist market economy with a
burgeoning industrial and service sector. These economic
reforms have been reinforced by far-reaching institutional
and legal reforms, as is well documented in the literature.
As a result, China has achieved economic growth rates
averaging an astounding 8.9 per cent per annum over the
past 15 years.3 China’s economy now ranks as the world’s
second largest behind the United States in real terms,
suggesting China already ranks as a global economic
superpower notwithstanding its developing status.

http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~slr/v25/n3/Vol%2025%203%20(Sept)%202003.pdf

Using 'Hi-tech' Tools in a Traditional Classroom
Environment - A Two-Semester Experiment
Whether we like it or not, technology has become an
integral part of our lives and affects virtually every
aspect of the legal profession — from the solo practitioner
in northern Minnesota to the partner in a 400-person Wall
Street firm. Technology has transformed how lawyers
communicate, manage files, present cases to juries, and
handle their professional and personal activities. It has
been warmly received by the practicing bar. In contrast,
technology has received, at best, a chilly reception from
most faculty and administrators within the legal academy.
While the precise number of faculty who are taking
advantage of technology that is now available to them in
newly constructed or renovated “hi-tech” classrooms is
unknown, one suspects that it is small. The purpose of this
paper is twofold: first, to share the strategies,
techniques andutcomes of a one-year “hi-tech” educational
experiment conducted by the author and three of his
colleagues with fifty-five volunteer first-year law
students at William Mitchell College of Law during the
2001-02 school year; and second, to encourage further
in-depth law school experimentation with “hi-tech” tools
and techniques.
 http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v9i2/article5.html
 http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v9i2/article5.pdf

Israel outraged at 'threat to peace' poll
Israeli authorities have reacted angrily to a European
Union opinion poll in which more Europeans identified
Israel as a threat to world peace than any other country.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s981644.htm 

http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/flash/fl151_iraq_full_report.pdf
(full report)

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