general internet news - 23 April (complete version)

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

us: Report: Surge in hate Web sites targeting young
Online games that allow children to "shoot" illegal
immigrants, Jews and blacks are among the thousands of
extremist Web sites described in a report by an
international human rights organization.
 http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/04/20/online.hate.ap
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3641895.stm

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/04/20/online.hate.ap/index.html

au: Porn link to young sex offenders
Internet service providers should be made to filter online
content because sexual assaults perpetrated by children are
increasing, an internet media and mental health conference
in Brisbane will be told today.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/21/1082530235683.html

au: Internet laws concern euthanasia advocate
Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke is upset by a Federal
Government plan to crackdown on euthanasia Internet sites
and help lines.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1090597.htm

uk: Lax internet rules put employers at risk
More UK firms are offering employees access to the internet
but many are failing to sort out security policies until
it's too late.

http://www.silicon.com/management/itdirector/0,39024673,39120118,00.htm

uk: Employee internet abuse keeps rising
Around one in five of all UK companies suffered from their
employees making abusive use of the internet last year.
Companies that experienced internet abuse had an average of
one incident a week.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=employeeinternetab1082490367

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1195866,00.html

Google's Gmail reported to 17 regulators
Privacy International has formally asked the European
Commission and privacy and data protection commissions in
16 countries to investigate the "serious privacy problems"
posed by Google's proposed Gmail service.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=googlesgmailrepo1082490332

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-google20apr20,1,2914667.story

Bogon filtering blocks some sites in NZ
JetStream users around the country may be unable to access
some of their favourite websites because the IP addresses
they are assigned are being blocked.

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/9714DEA906A63445CC256E7C00124349

WSIS Preparatory Meeting: Hammamet (Tunisia), 24-26 June
2004
A Preparatory Meeting for the Tunis phase of the Summit
will take place at Hammamet, Tunisia, from 24-26 June 2004.
An invitation letter will be sent out end of April and
pre-registration will start in May 2004. More information
regarding this meeting, including dates for registration,
will be available soon.
 http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory2/hammamet/index.html

"Advantage Africa": Forum at ITU TELECOM AFRICA 2004 to
Highlight Areas Central to Region’s ICT Growth
Building on ITU's longstanding and unrivalled reputation
for facilitating constructive, industry-wide debate, the
Forum at ITU TELECOM AFRICA 2004 will provide a unique
arena for industry and government leaders to examine key
policy and development issues, share ideas and discuss
strategies for development.
 http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2004/03.html

WSIS E-Flash No 14
Latest news on the World Summit on the Information Society
 http://www.itu.int/wsis/newsroom/eflash/latest.html

German girl 'up for sale' on eBay
German police are investigating a woman who is alleged to
have put her eight-year-old daughter up for sale on the
internet.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3643183.stm
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/21/1082395891186.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=497345
Subastan a su hija por Internet

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108263020390917.shtml

cn: Report: Shanghai Will Monitor Internet
Authorities are installing video cameras and high-tech
software in Shanghai's Internet cafes and bars to make sure
customers don't look at forbidden Web sites, a state-run
newspaper reported Thursday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33297-2004Apr22.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3648813.stm

tn: A ninth Internet-user from Zarzis sentenced to 25
months in prison
An 18-year-old Tunisian Internet-user Abderrazak Bourguiba,
was sentenced to 25 months in prison by the youth criminal
court in Tunis on 16 April. Eight other members of the
"Zarzis Internet-users" group were sentenced to prison
terms of up to 26 years on 6 April on terrorism charges for
having downloaded files from the Internet that were judged
subversive.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9763
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9762 (Francais)

kr: Computer Usage Monitoring
Parents will be able to monitor and control their
children's computer usage through their cell phones from
Thursday.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200404/kt2004042117380711780.htm

us: Jail Mail Can Have Web Downloads, Court Rules
The state cannot bar prisoners access from mail that
contains downloads from the Internet, a U.S. appeals court
ruled on Tuesday.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=4885599

Jacko 'abused comatose child'
Michael Jackson abused a young cancer patient after plying
him with so much wine he passed out, according to a police
report. The 45-year-old pop star is also said to have shown
his alleged victim Internet pornography.
 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/10344899

us: Jackson police report revealed 
A police report reveals today claims made to a psychologist
of Michael Jackson allegedly abusing teenagers with wine
and internet porn.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/21/1082395890382.html

us: Jackson wins case to shut down Web site
Pop star Michael Jackson has won a legal fight to shut down
a pay-per-view Web site operated by a New Jersey man once
awarded a warehouse full of Jackson family memorabilia.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-04-20-website-closes_x.htm

International Advocacy, Law Enforcement and Industry Groups
Hold News Conference on Global Campaign Against Child
Pornography for Thursday (April 22)

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/altavista/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040421005565&newsLang=en

us: Computer Q&A: Search engines act to thwart online
gambling
A month ago, betting on the NCAA basketball tournament was
top of mind for many of us as we participated in pools by
wagering on who was going to win their brackets. Next
month, the table turns as online gambling starts to
disappear in the United States. Not that online gambling
really happened here.
 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04113/304329.stm

au: Scammers target ANZ, CBA and Westpac
Scammers are targeting two of Australia's big banks this
morning with emails that have a new twist.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/21/1082395898412.html

us: Court backs Internet predator conviction
A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of an
Oakland man who used the Internet to contact someone he
believed to be a Walnut Creek teen for sex.

http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1486~2095828,00.html

uk: Staff reveal passwords for a chocolate bar
A survey of office workers at London's Liverpool Street
Station found that 71% were willing to part with their
password for a chocolate bar. The survey seems to confirm
that office workers are are still not information security
savvy.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=staffrevealpasswor1082490425
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3639679.stm

us: 'Spyware' Eludes Easy Answers
Federal regulators and the business community "still have a
little bit of homework to do" before deciding on the best
way to protect people from computer software that tracks
their Web-surfing habits, a top U.S. consumer protection
official said.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=6946

Hackable bug found in net's heart
One of the net's central technologies has a serious
security vulnerability warn UK and US infrastructure
protection agencies.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3646223.stm
 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-111A.html

Cyberspace warriors 	
Following the trauma of 9/11, Israeli-born computer
security expert Prof. Abraham Kandel heads a federally
funded institute in Florida whose mission is to monitor
information about terrorist activity on the Internet. A
look at how scientists are battling the spread of terrorist
communications on the World Wide Web.
 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/415859.html

us: Who Should Keep Out the Hackers?
So dangerous are the vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks that
the Department of Homeland Security took the rare step of
warning that quick action by users and network operators
was crucial to avoiding serious Internet disruption.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32480-2004Apr21.html

uk: Identity theft could be next big crimewave, warns
internet firm
Identity theft could become the next big crimewave to hit
Britain because people have problems recalling their
various passwords, pin numbers and access codes, an
internet security company claimed yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1195684,00.html

us: Army Confronts Enemies Within in Cyber War Game
The mission: to secure an entire computer network for the
United States and its allies against a vague enemy force.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4897789

ca: Weak enforcement undermines privacy laws
At a recent meeting of Canadian privacy professionals, the
United States' approach to privacy was derisively
characterized as amounting to little more than a privacy
policy placebo, a reference to the reliance on privacy
policies under the U.S. system.
 http://tinyurl.com/3bx56

File-Sharing Getting Bad Rap?
A controversial new study by economists at Harvard and the
University of North Carolina has found that file-sharing is
not the cause of declining CD sales. Researchers spent a
year and a half analyzing downloads and sales figures for
680 albums -- and what they found contradicts the record
industry's claim that online piracy has led to a fifteen
percent decline in sales since 2000.
 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=19563

Australia suffers e-commerce slide
Australia has been dropped from the list of top 10
e-commerce countries, pushed out by a strong showing from
Scandinavia.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9345065%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/21/1082395895156.html

Study: Swedes Most 'Digital-Savvy' in Europe

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4877513&section=news

Britain second Web-savviest nation in world

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4859847&section=news

NZ drops down 'e-ready' list
New Zealand has slipped two places in the annual index of
"e-ready" countries compiled by the Economist Intelligence
Unit.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2883079a28,00.html

nz: Mixed reaction to Waitangi website
The Government's new Treaty of Waitangi website has been
given a cautious pass mark by academics, lawyers and Maori
leaders.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,0a28,00.html
 
EU probes Intel deals
The countries are under a formal investigation for tenders
favoring computers with Intel chips, excluding competition
by rival AMD, a spokesman for the European Union said
Wednesday.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5196326.html

eu: Microsoft Ruling Cites 'Pattern of Conduct'
Microsoft Corp. engaged in a "general pattern of conduct"
to deny competitors critical information to allow their
products to work properly with the software giant's Windows
systems, according to a final ruling by European antitrust
enforcers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32902-2004Apr21.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5197390.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5197411.html

Microsoft sets out Europe appeal
The European Commission's landmark decision against
Microsoft last month is out of step with legal precedent,
business realities and a US settlement.

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420507768&p=1057562182635

us: Microsoft Settles Minnesota Lawsuit
Microsoft Corp. on Monday continued the drive to leave its
legal woes behind by agreeing to settle a class-action
lawsuit filed by Minnesota customers who claimed they paid
too much for the software titan's products.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-micro20apr20,1,4503592.story

Yahoo corrects email flaw
A flaw in its Web-based email system could have let
attackers control victims' Yahoo accounts.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39152679,00.htm

Researchers set new Internet2 speed record
In what is billed as another step toward a higher-bandwidth
Internet, a team of researchers has set a new data
transmission speed record over the Abilene Network, the
Internet2 backbone.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/20/HNinternetspeed_1.html

# La "@" incorporada al código Morse
La Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones ha tomado la
decisión de incluir en el código Morse la "@" debido a su
elevada utilización en las direcciones de correo
electrónico.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108245271665079.shtml

uk: Turning pages without cracks or tears
The British Library has put 10 of its greatest and rarest
literary treasures, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the
world's earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra, on
to the internet.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1197316,00.html

uk: Ex-Eton teacher admits child porn
A former teacher at Eton College is facing a jail term
after admitting saving child pornography, some of an
extremely serious nature.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/3649433.stm

uk: Consultant cleared of child porn offences
A hospital consultant charged with buying child pornography
was yesterday dramatically cleared after it was revealed
his identity could have been stolen by a computer hacker.

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticlemore2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=778061

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/3647207.stm

uk: Paedophile jailed
AN Ipswich paedophile who had sex with a 13-year-old girl
and collected a huge library of child pornography has been
jailed for five years.

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/News/NewsStory.asp?Brand=ESTONLINE&Category=NEWS&ItemId=IPED21+Apr+2004+12%3A27%3A43%3A883

us: Police Uncover Disturbing Evidence In Child Porn
Investigation
There's new, disturbing information about a substitute
teacher arrested on child pornography charges.
 http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1801008

us: Family Of Boy In Middle Of Child Porn Case Speaks Out
A Knox County mother is shocked to learn the man her son
looked up to as a mentor was arrested for allegedly abusing
him for nearly two years.
 http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1797365

us: Knox man charged in child porn case
A substitute teacher in Knox County met a young boy through
a group that supports disadvantaged children, and later
photographed himself having sex with the boy, according to
a complaint filed in federal court.

http://www.teamamberalert.net/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1021

us: Man faces at least 15 years in library child porn case
A man charged with using Charlotte County public library
computers to trade child pornography over the Internet
pleaded guilty Wednesday and faces at least 15 years in
prison.

http://www.news-press.com/news/local_state/040422brillhart.html

us: Doctor seeks leniency in child porn case
A 68-year-old Opelousas man who downloaded child
pornography from the Internet had been engaging in online
“fantasy relationships” to ease the frustration of
impotence, his psychologist testified Tuesday.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/news/html/3EECD3A8-7F27-4B7A-B0FA-015D8456748B.shtml

us: Teacher arrested on child pornography charge
A Dalles Middle School teacher and sports referee was held
here Wednesday after his arrest on felony charges involving
child pornography.
 http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=66598

http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D823F1O80.html
 http://www.kptv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1804700

us: Former teacher sentenced for child pornography
possession
A former calculus teacher at Pinewood Preparatory School
was sentenced to two years and three months in federal
prison for possession of child pornography.
 http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/8484254.htm

us: $10,000 bond posted for man held on child pornography
charges
A Heath foster parent who authorities say allegedly bought
child pornography over the Internet was released from jail
on Tuesday after his father posted bond.

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/news/stories/20040421/localnews/269414.html

us: Man Pleads Guilty To Using Fla. Library Computers To
Send Child Porn
A registered sex offender pleaded guilty to using public
library computers to download and e-mail child pornography.
 http://www.local6.com/news/3030147/detail.html

us: North Augusta man pleads guilty to subscribing to child
porn
A North Augusta man has pleaded guilty in Aiken to
possession of child pornography, said U.S. Attorney Strom
Thurmond Jr.
 http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/8486438.htm

http://www.heraldonline.com/scnews/state_regional_interest/story/3529828p-3132813c.html

us: Brothers face child porn charges
Two Hardin County brothers are in federal custody after
indictments were handed down alleging they used the postal
system to send and receive child pornography.

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