general internet news - 29 January

us:  Court Rules Against Patriot Act
In the first court ruling to call the controversial law
unconstitutional, a federal judge says a portion of the
statute violates the First and Fifth amendments.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,62048,00.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/politics/27PATR.html

http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/terrorism/hlpash12304ord.pdf

MyDoom: fastest spreading to date
Experts says the damage could continue for months or years.
About one in every 12 messages being sent through the
Internet contains the virus.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2251-1110-5148113.html

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1073281329151

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/technology/27CND-VIRU.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1132827,00.html

'MyDoom' Spreading, Slowing Networks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54778-2004Jan27.html

MyDoom: What is it?
Mydoom is a mass mailing and peer-to-peer (KaZaA) worm that
targets The SCO group. This worm is spreading rapidly and
went from a standing start to a category 4 rating at
Symantec in one leap.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39115860,00.htm

http://www.silicon.com/software/security/0,39024655,39118015,00.htm

US government plans cyberalert system
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to announce
details of a cyberalert system on Wednesday, two days after
a virus called MyDoom spread rapidly across the Internet.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39115859,00.htm

Help! I've Been Web-Jacked
On December 22, an Internet investigator got a tip that
child pornography was being housed on an adult Web site.
When he visited the site to verify the information, he
didn't find any illegal images. But what he did find was a
Trojan horse that disabled the ActiveX security controls on
his browser and took control of it.
 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114440,00.asp

Webcam stripper Colonel suspended
Webcams are a way to keep in contact with your friends or
family when you're not there. Perhaps even a way to show
someone special what you look like with your rocks off.
Nothing wrong with that, you might say. Except if you
happen to be a top dog in the British army and you're
exposing army secrets as well yourself.

http://www.silicon.com/networks/webwatch/0,39024667,39118011,00.htm

us: FBI online sex stings winning first convictions
Eric Hopkins thought he had found his fantasy girl online.
"I remember there were girls I wanted in 8th grade that
were hot," the 31-year-old Florida man wrote. "Now I'll
have one all to myself."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-01-25-pedo-stings_x.htm
 
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040123/lo_kmbc/1970964

us: Pa. teachers disciplined for misconduct
Several Pennsylvania educators have been disciplined by the
state Department of Education in recent actions taken by
the department's standards and practices commission.
...
was suspended until July 2005 because he "accessed sexually
explicit materials on school computer, [made] inappropriate
comments to female colleague and falsified reports."
 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04027/266128.stm

us: Cheating probe snares Saratoga students
A small group of tech-savvy Saratoga High School students
allegedly used a tiny computer device last spring to
capture teacher passwords, then stole English Department
tests and answers and shared them with others.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/7787118.htm

'About 30 Web sites promote N.K. regime'
About 30 Web sites exist to promote the North Korean
regime, police said yesterday. The communist state operates
eight Internet sites and the others are being managed by
North Koreans in the United States, Japan and China.
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=7020

China tightens web control
There has been a dramatic rise in the number of people
detained or sentenced for internet-related offences in
China, according to the London-based rights group Amnesty
International.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3434115.stm
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/28/1075088076128.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1132658,00.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4223031
China: Controls tighten as Internet activism grows (Amnesty
news release)
 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA170052004

cn/fr:Police break up a protest by Reporters Without
Borders activists to press for release of Chinese
cyberdissidents and journalists
Police broke up a demonstration by Reporters Without
Borders activists releasing red balloons, bearing the
pictures of journalists and cyberdissidents imprisoned in
China, from the Trocadero human rights square opposite the
Eiffel Tower. Police seized balloons and herded protesters
to the nearest underground station. The organisation was
trying to draw the attention of the French authorities and
the general public to the plight of 48 Internet-users and
11 journalists imprisoned in China.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9128
Impiden a Reporteros sin Fronteras manifestarse ante la
Torre Eiffel para pedir la liberación de los
ciberdisidentes y periodistas chinos
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9127
Reporters sans frontières manifeste devant la Tour Eiffel
pour demander la libération des cyberdissidents et
journalistes chinois
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9126

Bombay plans cyber cafe controls
Internet cafe owners in India's commercial and
entertainment capital, Bombay, are angry at plans to
regulate the city's cyber centres.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3431645.stm

Thai teens taking to the Internet
The percentage of teenagers using the Internet has almost
doubled over the last four years, with this group of users
recording the largest subscriber growth in recent years,
according to a recent survey by the National Electronics
and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec).
 http://www.bangkokpost.net/Database/28Jan2004_data01.html

Tracking kids 24/7
Using high-tech products, parents can instantly find out
where a child is or what he's doing on the computer. But
what does this do to the parent-child relationship?
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0128/p13s02-lifp.html

Nigeria to tackle e-mail scams
Nigeria's finance minister has pledged to crack down on the
country's notorious e-mail fraud schemes.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3431637.stm

OECD Workshop on Spam, Brussels, Belgium, 2-3 February 2004
Hosted by the European Commission, Information Society
Directorate-General
Background and Objectives: The objective of this workshop
is to explore the growing problem of spam, with a focus on
the international dimension. Participants will:
* Identify common characteristics, sources and statistics
of spam.
* Examine the variety of approaches to combat spam.
* Examine the degree to which these approaches have been
successful.
* Consider next steps with a view to increasing
international co-operation to address the issue.

http://www.oecd.org/document/0/0,2340,en_2649_33703_21648384_1_1_1_1,00.html

EU to tighten spam net
The European Commission has called for new measures to
clampdown on spam, which now constitutes more than 50 per
cent of all electronic messages in Europe.

http://www.australianit.com.au/articles/0,7204,8515115%5E16123%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

eu: Commission calls for further action to combat spam
A series of actions to help enforce the EU "ban on spam"
were presented by Enterprise and Information Society
Commissioner Erkki Liikanen in Brussels today. These
actions focus on effective enforcement by Member States,
technical and self-regulatory solutions by industry,
consumer awareness, and international co-operation. 

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/04/103|0|RAPID&lg=EN&display=

us: Clinton's e-mail output: two
The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will
contain 39,999,998 e-mails by the former president's staff
and two by the man himself.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4212655

Antitrust Ruling Near for Microsoft in Europe
Antitrust officials at the European Commission have drafted
a final ruling in their six-year case against Microsoft.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/business/worldbusiness/27soft.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1132281,00.html
 http://www.iht.com/articles/126868.html

Microsoft EU ruling: Gates loses out

http://www.silicon.com/management/government/0,39024677,39118010,00.htm

Microsoft antitrust deal is working, says judge
The judge responsible for overseeing Microsoft’s compliance
with its antitrust settlement obligations has said the deal
appears generally to be working as intended after the
company announced it would further relax licensing terms.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=microsoftantitrust1075211143

Microsoft-U.N. deal aims to wire poor nations
Software giant Microsoft announced a partnership with the
United Nations Development Programme on Friday to back
information technology and communications improvement
projects in disadvantaged countries.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1011_3-5146305.html


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