general internet news - 10 October

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

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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China Soups Up Internet Censoring Filters
The Chinese government's Internet controls have kept
pace with rapid changes in technology and are
buttressed by self-censorship, university researchers
said in a study Thursday.

http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/1358433.shtml

China shuts down two more Web sites in crackdown
In a widening Internet crackdown, Chinese authorities
have shut down an online discussion forum that
reported on anti-corruption protests in a southern
village and a Web site serving ethnic Mongolians,
overseas monitors said Tuesday.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/12816144.htm

Childnet continues to challenge mobile industry to
better protect children from new ?adult? content 04
October 2005
Childnet is continuing in its work of challenging the
mobile industry to ensure that children and young
people are protected from inappropriate adult content.
Following on from the success of the Childnet
publication ?Children & Mobile Phones: an Agenda for
Action?, Childnet?s Will Gardner has been invited to
speak at a major international conference in Milan
this week entitled ?Mobile Adult Content?.
 http://www.childnet-int.org/news/articles/041005.html

Singapore court jails two bloggers for making racist
remarks online
A Singapore court Friday sentenced two ethnic Chinese
to prison for posting racist remarks about ethnic
Malays on the Internet, in what is considered a
landmark case underscoring the government's attempts
to crack down on racial intolerance and regulate
online expression.

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/10-07-2005/6cb9001112db0dcf.html

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051007.gtracistoct7/BNStory/Technology/

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9858413

sa: Blogger.com accessible again
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the decision by the
Internet Services Unit (ISU) to again allow access to
the blog tool blogger.com. The ISU, the agency in
charge of censoring the Internet in Saudi Arabia,
declined to explain its decision to Reporters Without
Borders, which contacted it by phone and then by
e-mail. Blogger.com ended up being censored for only
two days, on 4 and 5 October.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15201

us: THE NETSMARTZ WORKSHOP LAUNCHES ?UYN? TO HELP
CHILDREN REMEMBER ONLINE SAFETY (news release)
The NetSmartz Workshop, an interactive, educational
safety resource that enhances the ability of children
to recognize dangers on the Internet, announced the
launch of a new initiative designed to provide
children with a fun, easy way to remember rules for
online safety automatically.

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2144

us: Preachers to discuss darker side of love
Tomorrow morning, the Rev. Glenn Teal will be
preaching about sex. More specifically, he'll be
preaching about pornography.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051008/NEWS10/510080331

us: Fighting porn
Two Sioux Falls pastors hope to raise awareness of a
quiet addiction hurting lives in unseen ways

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051007/NEWS/510070333/

us: Bullies now using computers
School bullies are threatening other kids at an
alarming rate. A new survey by the National Crime
Prevention Council reveals 52 percent of students
witness bullying once a week.
 http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=3942533

http://wdef.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WDEF/MGArticle/DEF_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785526187

us: More Girls Than Boys Report Bullying Online
Cyber-bullying involves people using chat rooms, web
sites, e-mail or instant messaging to virtually insult
or hassle another person. A new study found that twice
as many girls as boys said they had bullied someone
online.

http://wcco.com/specialreports/local_story_279150549.html

us: CYBERBULLIES
Almost half of teenage students know at least one
victim of cyberbullying, a new study has found.
 http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/53430.htm

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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Australian court rules modified PlayStation legal
The High Court of Australia ruled on Thursday that
modifying Sony PlayStation consoles so they can play
overseas versions or copies of games did not breach
Australian copyright laws.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-10-06T114137Z_01_EIC642145_RTRIDST_0_TECH-LEISURE-AUSTRALIA-SONY-DC.XML&archived=False

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16832497%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/mod-squad-rejoices--for-now/2005/10/07/1128562985225.html

Australia's High Court Delivers Some Copyright Lessons
for Canada by Michael Geist
The Australian High Court today delivered a landmark
copyright decision involving "mod chips" and Sony
PlayStations.  The case goes to the heart of
anti-circumvention provisions that create very
contentious proposals in Bill C-60 here in Canada.  At
issue in the Australian case was whether mod-chips,
used to modify the Sony PlayStation so that users
could play games lawfully purchased outside the
country, were themselves lawful.  The High Court
reversed a lower court decision by finding against
Sony, ruling that the mod-chips were not captured by
Australia' s anti-circumvention laws in place at the
time of the action.

http://michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=975&Itemid=89&nsub=

Sony machtlos gegen Mod-Chips

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,378433,00.html

http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=275828&tmp=30950

us: Net blackout sparks talk of new rules
A feud between big network companies that has blacked
out swaths of the Internet for thousands of people is
prompting calls for government involvement, and may
help trigger a rewrite of telecommunications laws
affecting the Net.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1033_3-5891156.html

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=9864617

us: Network feud leads to Net blackout
Two major Internet backbone companies are feuding,
potentially cutting off significant swaths of the
Internet for some of each other's customers.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5889592.html

us: ISP should not identify blogger - court
In a victory for free speech on the internet, the
Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower
court ruling that a council official, suing over
remarks posted online by an unknown blogger, could
force the blogger?s ISP to reveal his identity.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/07/isp_blogger_identity_ruling/
 http://www.out-law.com/page-6204

uk: Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
The conviction of Daniel Cuthbert under Section 1 of
the Computer Misuse Act poses more questions for
security professionals than it answers, and could
hamper penetration testing in the future
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39226979,00.htm

nl: Dutch arrest three men for allegedly hacking
100,000 computers worldwide
Dutch police have arrested three men suspected of
hacking more than 100,000 computer worldwide,
prosecutors said.

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/10-07-2005/63a20006805b1e08.html

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9865457

ru: Internet crime shifts to Russia
Trafficking in stolen credit cards has largely shifted
to Russian-language Web sites after an international
crackdown sparked disarray among English-speaking scam
artists, a U.S. Secret Service official said.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9839133

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,113716,00.html

us: Delaware Supreme Court Declines to Unmask a
Blogger (reg req'd; free for short period)
The Delaware Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that if an
elected official claims he has been defamed by an
anonymous blogger, he cannot use a lawsuit to unmask
the writer unless he has substantial evidence to prove
his claim.
 http://nytimes.com/2005/10/06/technology/06blog.html

us: Behl went missing, but clues stayed online
In the days after Taylor Behl's disappearance, the
Internet proved a hotbed of clues in the college
freshman's disappearance.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-99496sy0oct08,0,3601997.story

us: Shaky bounds of free speech always at court's
mercy
Questions about what exactly "speech" is, when and
where it's allowed and the circumstances under which
it can be curtailed continue to spawn curious and
vexing legal cases. Changing circumstances alter
free-speech perceptions, and none more so than war. In
the year after the 2001 terrorist attacks, half of
those surveyed by the First Amendment Center said the
amendment "goes too far" in the rights it guarantees
(down to 23 percent this year), and efforts to
redefine acceptable speech grew. The march toward new
technology, including satellite radio and digital
cable TV, has also fired debates over government
control of speech.

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/insight/stories/10/9freespeech.html

us: Kansas Supreme Court Removes County Judge for
Viewing Porn on Court Computer
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday ousted a county
judge for viewing Internet pornography on his office
computer.
 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1128675913196

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/07/judge.removed.ap/index.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701015.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/wireStory?id=1192927

us: Iraq-corpse Web site operator held for obscenity
The American operator of a Web site which posted
grisly pictures of people killed in the Iraq and
Afghan conflicts was arrested on obscenity charges
unrelated to the war photos, police officials in
Florida said.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9866268

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za: Gigaba calls for support against child pornography
Malusi Gigaba, the home affairs deputy minister, has
called on parents to support the national Friends of
the Child campaign. The government launched the
campaign last month to create awareness around child
pornography.

http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,113628,00.html

us: California bars violent video game sales to minors
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ignored strong
lobbying from software makers and signed legislation
on Friday that bans the sale of violent video games to
children.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=9864039

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uk: Third of firms break email laws
A third of Britain's top companies are breaking laws
banning unsolicited marketing emails.

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1586991,00.html

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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us: Study: 32% of U.S. adults offline
About one-third of those who don't use the Internet
say they simply aren't interested in going on-line

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051006.gtinternetoct6/BNStory/Technology/

ug: 'Illiteracy Still Affecting ICT Use'
Even with a considerably faster growth in acquisition
and spread of Information Communication Technologies
(ICTs) in Uganda, their impact on the economy and
social transformation could still remain minimal on
account of widespread illiteracy and ineffective
leveraging of these facilities.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200510050192.html

Al Qaeda posts job ads on Internet
Al Qaeda has put job advertisements on the Internet
asking for supporters to help put together its web
statements and video montages, an Arabic newspaper
says.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1476823.htm

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9849073

Al Qaeda recruits techies for website
Al Qaeda has put job advertisements on the Internet
asking for supporters to help put together its Web
statements and video montages, an Arabic newspaper
reported.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-10-06T162831Z_01_HAR647217_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-QAEDA-JOBS.XML

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FILE SHARING
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The music business and the internet
Music firms are emboldened, but risk strangling the
golden goose

http://economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4492917

Selling Songs for a Song
Record labels want a bigger cut of digital music
profits.
 http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9629461/site/newsweek/

il: Israel cracks down on Internet music and film
piracy
As a country that prides itself on technological
knowhow, Israel has also become a hot spot for music
and film piracy over the Internet. Over the past
years, Israel has been labeled a modern hell by
American regulators as well as global trade bodies for
anything that has to do with the Internet and
copyright law.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1128565304979&p=1077768895034
 
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Microsoft says Windows is safer than you think
Microsoft Corp. launched a trust-building initiative
on Thursday designed to show its commitment and
progress to date in making its frequently attacked
Windows computer operating system more secure from
hackers.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-10-06T150924Z_01_HAR654610_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-MICROSOFT-SECURITY.XML

David Sifry, the life and soul of the internet party
The founder of Technorati is betting on a change in
the nature of the internet

http://economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4484119

It's Web wars, as Yahoo rips rival Google
Yahoo CEO calls Google a glorified portal without a
solid Web strategy

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051007.gtryahoo07/BNStory/Technology/

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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nz: Repeat child porn offender jailed
An Auckland computer technician has been jailed for
continuing to collect and distribute internet
pornography involving the extreme abuse of babies,
despite an earlier conviction for the crime.
 http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411368/616228

uk: Police hint at deal for Barker fugitive
POLICE have promised to act ?sensitively? if Ronnie
Barker?s son Adam comes back for his father?s funeral
after skipping bail on child pornography allegations.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1816607,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4319514.stm

us: Man faces child porn charges
Pennsylvania State Police have arrested a man accused
of e-mailing sexually explicit photos of children.

http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15352561

us: Police arrest local man who lured several children
online
Hamilton Police are urging parents to check their
children's e-mail accounts after arresting a Hamilton
man who lured young people online.

http://hamiltonmountainnews.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=brabant/Layout/Article&c=Article&cid=1128635433069

us: Coach pleads guilty to child porn charges
A former Wills Point junior high coach pleaded guilty
Thursday to charges he had sexually explicit images of
minors on his personal computer.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8D2VCJO5.html

us: Sex crimes suspect had extensive contact with kids
Russell Roelke, a 45-year-old West Bend youth ministry
director charged with four counts of child sex crimes,
has been involved in a plethora of other youth service
activities over the years, including as a Boy Scout
leader, a Big Brother and a teaching assistant in the
Brown Deer School District, according to a Washington
County assistant district attorney.

http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2005/October_05/10062005_10.asp

us: Portage man faces charges of child pornography
A 42-year-old Portage man faces 15 counts of
possession of child pornography.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=3517251

us: Former Priest Enters Plea In Child Porn
Investigation
A former Roman Catholic priest at a Leesburg church
pleaded no contest Wednesday to a felony charge of
attempted possession of child pornography.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100702261.html
 http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3945885
 http://www.nbc4.com/news/5065642/detail.html

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--priestporn1006oct06,0,1339711.story

us: Lowery Pleads Guilty To Child Pornography Charges
Former UAB Computer System employee Bobby Dean Lowery
pleaded guilty and was sentenced on Tuesday to 20
years in prison for possession of child pornography
with intent to distribute and attempted production of
child pornography.
 http://www.nbc13.com/news/5072870/detail.html

us: Lubbock Federal Jury Convicts Man In Child
Pornography Case
A Lubbock federal jury convicted a man Thursday on 111
counts in a child pornography case.
 http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=3949033

us: Jury deadlock leads to mistrial in child
pornography case
A Fort Bend County jury deciding the punishment of a
former Rosenberg police officer who pleaded guilty to
possession of child pornography could not reach a
verdict and a mistrial was declared.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/metropolitan/3388303

us: Aberdeen man implicated in Michigan child
pornography case
A Monroe County man faces federal charges of
possessing more than 1,000 images of child
pornography, including one of a 15-year-old girl
engaging in a sex act, authorities said.

http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051006/NEWS06/51006013

us: Buffalo Teacher Faces Child Porn Charges
A Buffalo math teacher is facing child pornography
charges. State Police say Joseph Cimminelli was
arrested at his home in West Seneca after police say
they found child pornography on his computer.

http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=32113

us: Child Pornography
Aaron Shaffer was found in guilty of distributing
child pornography and possession of child pornography.
 http://www.wibw.com/news/headlines/1883082.html

us: Child Porn Suspect Commits Suicide
A Lakeland man committed suicide Sunday, a day after
he was released from jail, where he had been held on
child pornography charges.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051007/NEWS/510070418/

us: State Supreme Court to decide child pornography
sentencing
Minnesota's Supreme Court heard arguments that could
radically affect the amount of prison time for
possessing child pornography. At issue is whether each
downloaded image represents a separate crime or
whether downloading child pornography is one illegal
act. The arguments stem from the case of a Macalester
College student who pleaded guilty to 19 counts of
possessing and disseminating child pornography.

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/10/04_stawickie_porncase/

us: Lloydminster man charged for child porn possession
A 58-year-old Lloydminster man is in custody after
police uncovered a large amount of child pornography
at his home Wednesday evening.
 http://www.meridianbooster.com/story.php?id=188810

us: Child porn charges
Police arrested an Elwyn Road man on a charge of
possession of child pornography, while alleging he was
also soliciting a minor for sex through his personal
computer.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/10072005/news/66732.htm

us: Teacher Arrested in Child Porn Case
A high school teacher accused of keeping child
pornography on a school-issued laptop computer was
arrested after he turned himself in to police.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sbriefs7.2oct07,1,714044.story

us: Two Area Men Face Child Pornography Charges in
Separate Incidents
Nathan Pierpont is accused of receiving child porn on
his computer between March of 2004 and January of
2005. If convicted, Pierpont would have to forfeit his
computer and 17 compact disks. His arraignment is set
for Friday morning.
 http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/1893532.html

us: Man waives right to hearing in child pornography
case
A Hagerstown man charged with child pornography
offenses waived his right to a preliminary hearing
Tuesday in Washington County District Court, according
to charging documents.

http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=121255

us: East Hanover man charged with using work computer
to view child pornography
An East Hanover man who is the former General Counsel
of the Newark Housing Authority has been charged with
possession of child pornography and using his
government-owned computer to download and view child
pornography.

http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051005/UPDATES01/510050355/

us: Former Officer Pleads Guilty To Child Porn;
Mistrial Declared
A former Rosenberg police officer pleaded guilty to
child pornography Wednesday, but a judge declared a
mistrial when jurors could not reach a verdict on
punishment, KPRC Local 2 reported.
 http://www.click2houston.com/news/5063010/detail.html

us: West Bend Church Youth Director Nabbed In
Cross-Country Pornography Sting
A West Bend church youth director is charged after
being caught in a pornography sting.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/5061029/detail.html

us: Man faces charges of child porn
Police say Washtenaw resident's computer had 1,000
images, including girl lured from home.

http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0510/06/B06-338915.htm

us: Mistrial in child porn case
Judge Cliff Vacek declared mistrial in the trial of
former police officer Gary Wayne Stone.

http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2005/10/06/news/top_story/topstory.txt

us: OGDENSBURG MAN ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD
PORNOGRAPHY (news release)
A retired banker from Ogdensburg, N.Y. is in custody
today charged with purchasing images of child
pornography from an Internet service and storing them
on his computer.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/051005Ogdensburg.htm

us: PUERTO RICAN PREDATOR FOUND GUILTY ON CHILD
PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES (news release)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
announced that United States citizen Juan Ramon
Garced-Ortiz, 29, was found guilty of violations to 18
United States Code (USC), Section 2252 and
2253?possession of child pornography. His sentence is
scheduled for Dec. 19, 2005 at the United States
District Court of Puerto Rico.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/051007sanjuan.htm

us: Brooks sentenced to six years in prison
A former third-grade teacher at a Conroe elementary
school has been sentenced to six years in prison
without parole and 10 years' supervised release for
using the Internet to attempt to entice a minor into
having sex.

http://zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1574&dept_id=532215&newsid=15329014&PAG=461&rfi=9

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