general internet news - 20 January

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

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es: Spain targets internet child porn
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4624938.stm

Internet users judge website in less than a blink
 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3544134a28,00.html

eu: Firefox gets a fifth of European market

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39247539,00.htm

us: Child porn is lucrative criminal trade on Internet

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0117wsj-child-porn17-ON.html

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: Comment: Hitting the back button
It is moral funk to insist that someone who strays on
to a forbidden website must pay all their life

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1687327,00.html

Chinese cops take to cyberspace
As if pop-up ads are not bad enough, now Internet
users in southern China's Shenzhen city have to
content with online cartoons of police office warning
them not to access banned sites.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=qw1137560583522R131

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LEGAL, SECURITY AND PRIVACY
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au: Bullying across the board
BULLYING was a problem across all Tasmanian sectors,
business and community groups said yesterday. ...
Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief
executive Damon Thomas said cyber-bullying -- using
computers -- was particularly cowardly.

http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17866116%255E3462,00.html

uk: Child porn cautions soar
The number of people cautioned for possessing child
abuse images has risen by 2,692% over the past decade,
according to the latest Home Office figures.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1687669,00.html

uk: Blackmailers target $1m website
The site of a UK student who had the idea of selling
pixels as advertising space has been hit by a web
attack.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4621158.stm

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1995107,00.html

Zombie PCs target vulnerable sites
With the news that student millionaire Alex Tew has
been targeted by blackmailers, the thorny issue of how
to deal with denial-of-service attacks is back in the
headlines.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4625304.stm

uk: Sex beasts face internet ban
Ulster's sex offenders could be named and shamed to
finance companies to prevent them purchasing internet
child pornography, it can be revealed today.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=676210

ng: $2.1M Scam: Convict Bags 376 Years Jail Term
A cyber-cafe operator, Mr. Harrison Odiawa, was over
the weekend found guilty of 48 counts out of a
58-count charge and sentenced to a cumulative period
of three hundred and seventy-six years (376yrs) in an
advance fee fraud scam involving a sum of $2.1 million
and 10,000 pounds, which he fraudulently obtained from
an American, George Robert Blick over a 17-month
period (April 2003 - August 2004).
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200601160074.html

us: High court says agents' immunity appeal is
premature
The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept alive a lawsuit
filed against several customs agents by an upstate New
York computer software company driven out of business
when the owner's husband was mistakenly targeted in a
child pornography investigation.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2006-01-18-scotusagentimmunity_x.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011801206.html

us: Cyberstalkers use networking Web sites to track
down students
Online networking sites such as Facebook.com and
Myspace.com are becoming a tool for a new breed of
stalking. Several sexual assaults related to
"cyberstalking" have been reported to the Office for
Sexual Health and Violence Prevention this year.

http://www.dailyvidette.com/media/paper420/news/2006/01/18/News/Cyberstalkers.Use.Networking.Web.Sites.To.Track.Down.Students-1434274.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.dailyvidette.com

us: Child porn is lucrative criminal trade on Internet
On a Saturday morning in October 2003, federal agents
raided the apartment of Chicago pediatrician Howard
Marc Watzman. They found two computers with more than
3,000 images of boys and girls as young as 4 years old
being sexually exploited. Watzman was later sentenced
to five years in prison for possessing child
pornography.

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0117wsj-child-porn17-ON.html

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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au: Online bookie gets licence
AUSTRALIA'S first internet betting exchange will be
open for business next month after receiving its
licence today.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17837243%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html

uk: BNP gets top news listing on Google
Google has defended the integrity of its news service
after it emerged that reports filed by the
extreme-right British National party are being listed
as sources on its website.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Technology/news/story/0,16559,1687778,00.html

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1989565,00.html

au: Study probes web habits of office slackers
Cyberslacking could be eating up as much as a quarter
of the time employees spend online, according to a
Monash University pilot study.

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/study-probes-web-habits-of-office-slackers/2006/01/17/1137466975871.html

eu: Firefox gets a fifth of European market
The Mozilla Firefox browser has achieved a market
share of more than 20 percent in Europe, according to
the latest figures released by French Web metrics firm
XiTi.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39247539,00.htm

cn: In China, 111 million Net users counted
The number of Web users in China, the world's
second-largest Internet market, grew by 18 percent in
2005 to 111 million, the Economic Daily reported
Wednesday.
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6027969.html

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_INTERNET_BOOM

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=10881816

Wi-fi slow to enthuse consumers
Most people are not taking advantage of the freedom
offered by wireless net access in laptops, a study has
found.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4624298.stm

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FILE SHARING
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kr: Commercial Online Music File Swappers Face
Criminal Charges
Internet users who share music files for commercial
purposes will be subject to criminal charges.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200601/kt2006011616503411990.htm

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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uk: Britain to host online gambling summit
The UK will stage the world's first international
summit on online gambling later this year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Technology/news/story/0,16559,1687714,00.html

uk: IIR vs. Google: British firm drops its Gmail
The small British company that forced Google to
abandon its use of Gmail in the UK has dropped its own
version of the service

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1995302,00.html

Internet users judge website in less than a blink
Internet users can give websites a thumbs up or thumbs
down in less than the blink of an eye, according to a
study by Canadian researchers.
 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3544134a28,00.html

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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es: Spain targets internet child porn
Spanish police say they have arrested bankers,
businessmen and a priest among 33 people held on
charges of using the internet to exchange child
pornography.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4624938.stm
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4624938.stm

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/18/spain.arrests/

au: Paedophilia accused refused bail
A man charged with sex crimes has been refused bail in
a south-west Victorian court.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1549580.htm

uk: Sex case teacher denies paedophilia
The maths teacher who was allowed to continue working
in schools despite his conviction for indecently
assaulting a 15-year-old today claimed he posed no
risk to children.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1687602,00.html

uk: Teacher arrested over child porn
A secondary school teacher has been arrested on
suspicion of possessing indecent images of children,
police confirmed today.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1687741,00.html

us: Man gets 25 years for child porn sent over Web
A convicted sex offender residing in a posh suburban
West Palm Beach gated community has pleaded guilty to
distributing child pornography on the Internet,
authorities said Wednesday.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbcnorth/content/local_news/epaper/2006/01/19/s3b_PORN_0119.html


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