general internet news - 2 March

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

au: International operation targets child porn networks
Several Internet child pornography networks have been
smashed after a series of raids in an international police
operation across 10 countries, including Australia.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1054358.htm
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/27/1077676932485.html

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8805725%255E1702,00.html

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/2/27/latest/16168Aussiepol&sec=latest

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fg-briefs27.3feb27,1,3762006.story

ca: Sex ring sting
An Edmonton-area dirtbag busted in an international child
pornography case - after German police infiltrated a
members-only Internet chatroom - has come clean. James
Daniel Larocque, 26, of Redwater, yesterday pleaded guilty
in provincial court to distributing child pornography and
communicating for the purpose of prostitution.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2004/02/24/358585.html

Investigations continue into online paedophile ring

http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/qld/200402/s1054683.htm

Europol hunts crimes against babies
European police organisation Europol says it expects to
make more arrests soon in its campaign to clear the
Internet of paedophiles and to stop crimes against babies
and small children.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=465961

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-3-2004_pg6_1

au: Porn scandal rocks Woolies
Internet pornography has rocked Woolworths with managers
nationwide reportedly sacked for accessing sexually
explicit content.

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8799183%255E28101,00.html
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/27/1077676926321.html

au: Laws 'creating porn mafia'
Queensland's censorship laws were creating a "porn mafia"
more dominant in the state than anywhere else, a leading
criminologist has said. Bond University criminologist
Professor Paul Wilson will use the opening of the Sexpo
National Exhibition in Brisbane tomorrow to call for change
to Queensland's censorship laws.

http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8789250%255E1702,00.html

au: Defence porn scandal
Fourteen Defence Department public servants could be
sacked, fined or demoted if found guilty of downloading and
sending pornography from their office computers.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8829569%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

au: Queensland dentist had naked child bride porn
A dentist employed by the state government had a collection
of computer child pornography that included a photo of a
young girl posing as a naked bride, a Brisbane court was
told today.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/27/1077676949689.html

by: Lord of the (Porn) Rings
Computers and the Internet are still a novelty in Belarus.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, there are
only eight computers for every 100 Belarusians, and only
one out of 10 people uses the Internet. Most web users are
young, well-educated and well-to-do. More often than not,
they are also criminals.

http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=51&NrSection=17&NrArticle=11647

sg: MDA: Surfing porn is not a crime, but ...
The sticky question of what is permitted concerning
Internet pornography and what is not has surfaced again
after almost a decade.
 http://www.todayonline.com/articles/15184.asp

Zittrain and The OpenNet Initiative Take on Internet
Filtering
The OpenNet Initiative, a project documenting filtering and
surveillance practices worldwide in order to "to excavate,
expose and analyze," has launched this month. On this
project, the Berkman Center is working in partnership with
the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International
Studies, University of Toronto, and the Advanced Network
Research Group at the Centre for Security in International
Society at Cambridge University. Professor Jonathan
Zittrain leads the Berkman Center portion of the team. Read
more about the project's mission and objectives.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=230

us: No Boy Scouts
The ACLU defends NAMBLA: An old friend of mine once said
this about the American Civil Liberties Union: "They're a
bunch of whale-saving, criminal-loving pinkos — and thank
God for them." This remark nicely summarizes the
ambivalence with which many people regard the ACLU. Few
organizations dance closer to the very edge of the
loony-Left precipice than it does. There seems to be no
thug too hardened nor any cause too exotic for the ACLU to
champion. At the same time, if America ever were unlucky
enough to face a president who decided to remain in the
Oval Office past her expiration date, the ACLU would battle
her and her junta with every sharp courtroom argument,
pointed legal filing, and well-aimed briefcase it could
muster.

http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200402270920.asp

us: FBI Takes Servers From Chat Room Company
Federal agents conducting an Internet crime investigation
confiscated computer equipment and data files from a
company that hosts private Internet chat rooms, an FBI
spokesman said Tuesday.

http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/high_tech/1700/2-25-2004/20040225081506_27.html

us: Terrorism fighting weapons used in stings
Using resources brought together to fight terrorism, a
newly combined federal agency has been able to root out
thousands of case of child pornography across the country.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-crime/2004/feb/27/516431547.html

us: Iowa Diocese Wants Five Priests Defrocked
A Roman Catholic diocese in Iowa has asked the Vatican to
defrock four priests accused of molesting children, and a
fifth priest recently convicted of downloading child
pornography from the Internet.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V2186.AP-Church-Abuse-Io.html

us: Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy
The entertainment industry’s pursuit of tough new laws to
protect copyrighted materials from online piracy is bad for
business and for the economy, according to a new report.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/technology/01rights.html

us: Pornography may spark policy change
A task force will meet in mid-March to discuss
pornography’s place in rules on computer use at UT System
universities.

http://www.theshorthorn.com/archive/2004/spring/04-feb-25/n022504-01.html

us: State Police Patrol Info Highway
Some fishy activity on the Pennsylvania government's
Internet Web server recently attracted the attention of
state-police computer-crime investigators. Checking the
server's access records yielded the Internet protocol
address of a computer that was persistently trying to
access crime records kept online, according to Trooper
Robert Erdely, a computer-crime specialist based in
Indiana.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=151025&newsid=11044007&PAG=461&rfi=9

au:  Internet scammers face AU$1 million fine
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
is warning Internet scammers of the price they have to pay
for misleading users. More than 3200 Australian Internet
sites are already under investigation by the ACCC as part
of the International Internet Sweep together with consumer
protection agencies from 24 countries.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39116327,00.htm

cn: China Clamps Down on Web News Discussion
China this week launched a major crackdown on one of the
most vibrant parts of the Internet, the news discussion
groups that have pushed the boundary of free speech in the
country and forced greater government accountability.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fg-chinanet26feb26,1,4778483.story
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1055766.htm

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/13FBF03C-3F0F-451D-9E7A-156EAF618624.htm

Greek internet cafe owners protest draconian gaming
prohibition
A draconian computer gaming ban enacted two years ago is
still alive and kicking in Greece, despite a string of
court decisions throwing it out as unconstitutional, the
country's internet cafe owners complain.
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040225/323/emxyi.html

es: Siete detenidos por distribución de pornografía
infantil
La Policía ha detenido a Marcelino P.V. y a Justo P.S., de
41 y 65 años respectivamente, en Reus (Tarragona); a Rubén
B.R. de 21 años en Tarrasa (Barcelona); a Jorge G.P. de 27
en Valencia; David C.I. de 21 en Denia (Alicante); Diego
O.L. de 53 en Alcalá la Real (Jaén) y a Manuel Angel H.M.
de 37 en Guinea de Isora (Tenerife).

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/107814090768273.shtml

Half of US Internet users post content
Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages,
posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the
enormous variety of material available online, according to
a report.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4463216

IV World Congress of Computer Law Alfa-Redi
"Policies and regulatory framework for everyone’s
information society" 11 to 15 October 2004, Cuzco - Peru
Alfa-Redi, a non-governmental organization, is pleased to
invite all students and professionals interested in the
development and progress of informatics and its social and
regulatory impact, to participate to the IV World Congress
on Cyber-Law. The event will be held from the 11 to the 15
October 2004 in the city of Cuzco, in Peru.
 http://www.alfa-redi.org/congreso/ivmundiali.asp

Lure of black money scam
Victims of so-called 419 frauds are being taken in by
another deceit, labelled the "black money" scam.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3494072.stm
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35923.html

uk: Big Brother in Britain: Does more surveillance work?
It was all over in 54 seconds. One moment the four friends
were strolling home after a night out, the next they were
nursing injuries inflicted by a knife-wielding assailant.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0206/p07s02-woeu.html

us: Few Rules Better for Calls On Internet, Powell Says
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K.
Powell made his case on Capitol Hill yesterday for why a
light touch is needed for regulating voice communications
over the Internet, arguing that too many rules for the new
technology will send jobs overseas.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20040225/tc_washpost/a3495_2004feb24

Redefining the News Online
Journalists around the world have long agreed on a set of
values that help define whether a story is newsworthy. But
a new book about online news argues that these rules are in
flux: "Newsworthy" is slowly being redefined online by an
increasingly participatory audience.
 http://ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1075928349.php

us: Court doesn't extend database protection
In the first case of its kind, a federal court in New York
has ruled that one company's snatching of a database from a
rival's Web site does not violate the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5165624.html
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994710

Court: DeCSS ban violated free speech
A California appeals panel reverses a 4-year-old injunction
preventing publication of code that breaks Hollywood's DVD
encryption scheme.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5166887.html

E-mail of the future to combat spam
Microsoft and Yahoo! Inc are each developing systems aimed
at authenticating senders of e-mail. America Online Inc. is
testing a third.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/02/27/email.origins.ap/index.html
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153075

Google co-founders to establish foundation
Google's billionaire co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin, who have organised their Web search company around
the principle that "you can make money without doing evil,"
plan to establish a charitable foundation.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4462932

South Korea mulls spam curfew
South Korea wants to ban unsolicited commercial email
between 9pm and 9am.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/35912.html

New Spam Filters Cut the Noise
Open-source spam filter developers are claiming that their
software can now block 99.97 percent or more of incoming
spam on a network, thanks to new techniques.

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62421,00.html

Have passwords had their day?
Bill Gates this week warned that the days of the password
are numbered and RSA Security revealed the high risk of
identity theft presented by weak password management:
around 15% of consumers use only one password for
everything.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=havepasswordshadt1077879791

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