general internet news - 13 January

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

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uk: is the internet a good or bad thing? - an AOL
onliine discussion
 http://discuss.aol.co.uk

us: John McCain?s War on Political Speech
 http://www.reason.com/0512/fe.bs.john.shtml

China closes unregistered Web sites en masse before
Christmas

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/business/int/news/20051226p2g00m0bu032000c.html

Indian state to monitor cybercafes

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C01%5C11%5Cstory_11-1-2006_pg4_20

Study: Instant-messaging attacks rose in 2005

http://zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Study_Instant_messaging_attacks_rose_in_2005/0,2000061744,39232169,00.htm

The Internet Is Broken

http://technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16051,258,p1.html

us: Annoy someone online--two years in jail?
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6024695.html

de: German police swoop on child porn ring

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=213728+10-Jan-2006

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: ACMA relaunches Cybersmartkids website
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has
relaunched its internet safety website
www.cybersmartkids.com.au.

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=21722&src=site-marq

http://www.acma.gov.au/ACMAINTER.65668:STANDARD:1351330629:pc=PC_100410

au: Online safety - parents are in the dark
A Ninemsn/NetAlert survey shows 40 per cent of
teenagers would potentially meet in person someone
they have "met" online and only 12 per cent would ask
their parents for permission to do so.

http://kadina.yp-connect.net/~ypct/news/06/01/10/9.html

au: Christmas safety a priority
NetAlert, Australia?s Internet safety advisory body,
is pleased to announce the launch of their Technology
Toolbox, an important addition to their ?one-stop
shop? for guidance on Internet safety.

http://www.netalert.net.au/02815-Christmas-Safety-a-Priority.asp

Move to guarantee online freedom
AN international journalism group has called on
bloggers and web users to support its push to
guarantee free speech online. Reporters Without
Borders, (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF) has
issued a call for web companies to respect freedom of
speech online when operating in "oppressive"
countries.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17791056%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

uk: is the internet a good or bad thing?
AOL have begun a discussion on the internet and how
it's used, censorship, content and more. They note
that "as with all things, power can be used for good
and bad. For all the amazing things you can use the
net for, there is a dark side; with freedom of speech
comes the accessibility of obscene information, with
communication comes the ability to spread evil." To
take part in the discussion, which is being promoted
with full page ads in a number of UK newspapers, go
to:
 http://discuss.aol.co.uk

uk: Kelly (Education Secretary) faces sex offender row
Campaigners are demanding an urgent reform of
Britain's child protection system after The Observer
revealed last night that the Education Secretary, Ruth
Kelly, had approved the appointment of a registered
sex offender as a PE teacher. Kelly's decision - in
the full knowledge that the man had been placed on the
register by police, who believed he had accessed
paedophile websites - has astonished children's
charities and triggered calls for politicians to be
prevented from deciding who should be barred from
working in education.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1681905,00.html

uk: Kelly to face MPs over sex offenders in schools
The education secretary, Ruth Kelly, faces a Commons
grilling today on how registered sex offenders were
allowed to work in schools.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1684690,00.html

uk: The need for digital vigilance
Despite increasing online security and ever tighter
controls, forensic audits are exposing just how easy
it is to abuse school IT systems.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1682464,00.html

us: John McCain?s War on Political Speech
How the Arizona senator and other campaign finance
reformers use the law to muffle critics and trample
the First Amendment.
 http://www.reason.com/0512/fe.bs.john.shtml

us: Getting the message: Schools to host internet
safety seminar
As internet technology advances by leaps and bounds on
an almost daily basis, it?s become more and more
important for parents to know how to protect their
children on the Web, according to technology
consultant Barbara Gaskin.

http://www.townonline.com/hanover/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=404567

China closes unregistered Web sites en masse before
Christmas
The Chinese government last week began closing down
Web sites whose owners had not registered their
personal information with the Ministry of Information
Industry (MII), government officials said.

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/business/int/news/20051226p2g00m0bu032000c.html

Chinese ban on Wikipedia prevents research, users say
Chinese students and intellectuals are expressing
outrage at Beijing's decision to prohibit access to
Wikipedia, the fast-growing on-line encyclopedia that
has become a basic resource for many in China.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060110.wxwikipedia10/BNStory/International/

Indian state to monitor cybercafes
The southern Indian state of Kerala will join two
other states in requiring cybercafes record the names
and addresses of their customers in an effort to
combat online fraud, virus attacks and terrorism

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C01%5C11%5Cstory_11-1-2006_pg4_20

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LEGAL, SECURITY AND PRIVACY
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Study: Instant-messaging attacks rose in 2005
Security attacks over instant-messaging networks
became more prevalent in 2005, according to a new
study.

http://zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Study_Instant_messaging_attacks_rose_in_2005/0,2000061744,39232169,00.htm

The Internet Is Broken
The Net's basic flaws cost firms billions, impede
innovation, and threaten national security. It's time
for a clean-slate approach, says MIT's David D. Clark.

http://technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16051,258,p1.html

us: Man sues over chatroom humiliation
An Ohio man who claims that he was humiliated by two
other participants in an AOL chatroom has sued the two
men for causing emotional distress and the ISP for
failing to stop the alleged abuse

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/10/aol_sue_chatroom/

us: Speaker: Internet is not a baby sitter
The Internet is no substitute for a baby sitter, an
FBI agent warned a group of parents at Douglas High
School's Media Center last week.

http://www.recordcourier.com/article/20060111/News/101110012

uk: British 'rogue dialers' face heftier fines
British Parliament members have agreed to raise the
maximum fine that can be imposed against companies
that operate "rogue dialer" software that hijacks a
dial-up Internet user's Web connection.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1037_3-6005760.html

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POLICY
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us: Annoy someone online--two years in jail?
Commentary--Annoying someone via the Internet is now a
federal crime. It's no joke. Last Thursday, President
Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying
Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages
without disclosing your true identity.
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6024695.html
 http://www.out-law.com/page-6521

uk: Ofcom weighs in on new media rights debate
Regulators moved on Tuesday to broker a compromise in
the debate over new media rights, in which television
networks have been sparring with producers over who
will control downloaded TV shows.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=10806578

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SPAM
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Spammers bombard new targets
Spammers appear to have found a new target of choice
for 2006--bombarding Internet message boards with
unprecedented ferocity. The amount of message board
spam has been escalating dramatically since mid-2005,
according to experts and a search of Google shows a
number of frequently recurring domains are appearing
in bogus comments on message boards all over the
Internet.
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6025913.html

us: Area man says he?ll ?squeeze? spammers
The owner of a Clinton-based Internet service company
said Thursday he is going to pursue the collection of
as much money as he can from the e-mail spammers
against whom he won federal court judgments totaling
more than $11 billion.

http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/01/08/news/local/doc43c0bc7473d56445588544.txt

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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us: Shared secrets expose teens to risk of sexual
predators
MILLIONS of American teenagers are engaging in risky
behaviour on the internet, posting personal
information and talking about sex with strangers,
according to a survey released by the Polly Klaas
Foundation in California.

http://smh.com.au/news/technology/shared-secrets-expose-teens-to-sexual-predators/2005/12/23/1135032186808.html

au: Click all about it
Could we survive without the internet? With almost 11
million Australians regularly going online in 2005, it
seems unlikely.

http://smh.com.au/news/technology/click-all-about-it/2005/12/22/1135032135741.html

The End User: East Europe leaps ahead
A recent survey of how the Internet is being used in
Europe shows that in some key areas, the east is
ahead.

http://iht.com/articles/2006/01/11/business/ptend12.php

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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de: German police swoop on child porn ring
German police swooped on a major child pornography
ring on Tuesday, raiding 113 premises nationwide,
seizing computer disks, videos and pictures.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=213728+10-Jan-2006
 http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=12552

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17789561%255E23109,00.html

uk: Family GP jailed for child porn
A family doctor has been jailed for 15 months for
keeping more than 11 hours of child pornography
"movies" on his home computer.

http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0001head/tm_objectid=16568544&method=full&siteid=50080&headline=family-gp-jailed-for-child-porn-name_page.html


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