general internet news - 27 February

nz: InternetNZ Launches stopspam Website
InternetNZ continues the war on spam. Announcing the launch
of the stopspam website www.stopspam.net.nz , the leader of
the InternetNZ stopspam Taskforce, David Harris states
“While the stopspam website will not prevent spam, it is a
resource for anyone who wants to find out what can be done
to reduce the volume of spam they receive”.

http://internetnz.net.nz/communications/mr040219stop-spam.html

au: Internet scammers face AU$1 million fine
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
is warning Internet scammers of the price they have to pay
for misleading users. More than 3200 Australian Internet
sites are already under investigation by the ACCC as part
of the International Internet Sweep together with consumer
protection agencies from 24 countries.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39116327,00.htm

au: Missing 12-year-old girl may have met someone on net,
say police
A 12-year-old Victorian girl who caught a train from
Melbourne to Sydney on Monday could have met someone she
got to know on the internet, police said today. 
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/25/1077594868561.html

uk: 'Snooper's charter' to be unveiled
Ministers are to announce radically scaled-down plans to
give state agencies powers to access telephone, Internet
and e-mail records.
 http://www.itv.com/news/1657857.html
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153002

uk: UK police chief: Shut down 'abhorrent' Web sites
The Internet is no place for people looking for 'perverse
gratification', claims the police officer leading the UK's
fight against e-crime.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39147312,00.htm

UK: E-crime hitting British business for billions
E-crime is dogging British business, according to a survey
from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). But the
threat isn't just from organised criminal gangs – it could
be coming from within companies themselves, research shows.

http://www.silicon.com/management/smedirector/0,39024679,39118615,00.htm

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4426405

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1155212,00.html

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=494489

EURIM – IPPR E-Crime Study: Partnership Policing for the
Information Society - Second Discussion Paper - "Protecting
the Vulnerable"
Summary of Key Points: Over 10% of the world population,
including half that of the UK, has now used the Internet.
Many do so regularly. So, almost certainly, do a similar
proportion of criminals: to automate old crimes and
identify potential victims, as well as to commit new
crimes. Computer assisted crime is no longer “special”. It
is part of the mainstream of criminal activity. Like other
forms of crime it can be split into that which is
opportunistic (and can be readily deterred or deflected)
and that which is planned and organised (and much harder to
handle). The EURIM-IPPR E-Crime Study (visit www.eurim.org
for the first discussion paper “Separating Snake-oil from
Reality) is a comprehensive exercise to look at the actions
needed to reduce the consequent cost to UK-based residents
and business.

http://www.eurim.org/consult/e-crime/Feb_04/ECS_WP3_SME_DP2_040208.htm

Britons' computer love affair
People in Britain are spending so much time with their
computers that they have developed a personal attachment to
them, according to new research.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1154989,00.html

uk: Website claims to be the first to offer human eggs for
sale
An internet service which claims to be the first to offer a
global database of human eggs for sale to infertile women
has been launched in Britain.

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=494492

ir: Conservatives muzzle the Internet during elections
Judge Said Mortazavi announced on 23 February that he would
shortly shut down the pro-reformist web site www.emrooz.ws.
"We call on conservative judges to halt their ideological
censorship of the net, which has clearly intensified during
this electoral period", said Reporters Without Borders.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9373
Les conservateurs musellent Internet durant les élections
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9372

Net Dissidents Jailed in China
As part of an ongoing attempt to clamp down on Internet
speech, the Chinese government sentences five members of
the Falun Gong religious group to prison for posting an
article critical of authorities.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,62391,00.html

China Clamps Down on Web News Discussion
It restricts Internet reporting and bans the airing of
sensitive issues. Insiders say officials fear the Web's
ability to fire up public opinion.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fg-chinanet26feb26,1,4778483.story

ca: Sex ring sting
An Edmonton-area dirtbag busted in an international child
pornography case - after German police infiltrated a
members-only Internet chatroom - has come clean. James
Daniel Larocque, 26, of Redwater, yesterday pleaded guilty
in provincial court to distributing child pornography and
communicating for the purpose of prostitution.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2004/02/24/358585.html

us: FBI takes computer servers from Internet chat room
company
Federal agents conducting an Internet crime investigation
confiscated computer equipment and data files from a
company that hosts private Internet chat rooms, an FBI
spokesman said Tuesday.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8030972.htm

us: PIRATES IN CYBERSPACE: Not Exactly Fun and Games
Does the number TWENTY THREE BILLION DOLLARS get your
attention? That's how much money was lost last year as a
result of criminals swiping copyright-protected digital
copies of music, movies, software, and games... and
distributing them through websites, chat rooms, mass email,
FTP, and peer-to-peer networks.
 http://www.fbi.gov/page2/feb04/pirates021904.htm

us: INTERNET SAFETY OUTREACH: FBI joins Congressional
educational briefing
The problem is how to keep kids safe when they're online,
and that's really hard to do. In simple terms, it's a
matter of 1) blocking and locking up the dangers and 2)
teaching kids (and parents) how to be smart about avoiding
them. And that takes the proverbial "village": parents,
other kids, schools, law enforcement, technology
specialists, and community organizations.
 http://www.fbi.gov/page2/feb04/wallace021004.htm

us: FBI lurks at Web's sleazy edge
Agents in Portland and beyond pose as kids in an operation
that hunts people surfing for sex or pornography involving
children.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1077368809308611.xml

us: Senate bill would create children's electronic
protection registry
Legislation designed to protect children from electronic
messages about pornography, gambling and other potentially
inappropriate material was introduced on Tuesday.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-02-24-mich-kid-nospam_x.htm

us: Local Navy Doctor Charged with Five Counts of Child
Pornography
A long investigation ends with a local doctor being charged
with having, sending and looking for child porn on the
Internet. It's an investigation WAVY News 10 has been
following closely for weeks.
 http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1666228

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1666228&nav=23iiL3nC

us: Hazards of the Job - Cracking Down on Cyber Child Porn
Can Take a Toll — Even on the Toughest
In the course of more than 14 years on the job, Detective
Lt. John McLean has been exposed to countless sexually
abusive images of children — some of them quite graphic,
all of them disturbing — but he still remembers the first
time he saw a picture of a young child performing a sexual
act circulating on the Internet.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/US/GoodMorningAmerica/child_cyber_porn_040225-1.html

us: Working to protect the most vulnerable
The events surrounding the recent abduction and death of a
Florida girl have riveted the nation's attention again on
the challenges we face in protecting our children. As this
situation tragically reminds us, we cannot shield them from
every conceivable threat, but there are some key ways to
reduce the risk of harm.
 http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/8027017.htm

us: Man charged in child porn doesn't drive school bus
A Chicago man facing a child pornography charge, who works
for a bus company serving Oak Park elementary and high
school students, does not drive a school bus route in the
village or elsewhere, the company announced.

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/rf/02-25-04-232359.html

us: Davenport Diocese seeks to have five priests defrocked
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport has asked the
Vatican to defrock four priests accused of sexual abuse and
a fifth who recently was convicted of downloading child
pornography from the Internet.

http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/sections.cgi?prcss=display&id=185321

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V2186.AP-Church-Abuse-Io.html

us: Man accused of luring child for sex via Internet
A man came to a Beverly Hills parking lot Tuesday morning
expecting to meet a 15-year-old girl and begin a sexual
relationship, authorities say. Instead, the man met law
officers and was arrested.

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/25/Citrus/Man_accused_of_luring.shtml

http://www.chronicleonline.com/articles/2004/02/25/news/news03.txt

us: Santa Cruz man nabbed after flight east for expected
tryst with girl
A 55-year-old Santa Cruz man was in an Ohio courtroom
Monday to face molestation charges, three days after flying
to a Toldeo suburb to meet a 14-year-old girl he met
online.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2004/February/24/local/stories/03local.htm

us: FBI Arrests 2 People On Child Porn Charges
Two people were arrested Friday on federal charges of
production of child pornography and distribution and
possession of child pornography with intent to sell, the
FBI said in a news release.
 http://pasco.tbo.com/pasco/MGA23CU5XQD.html

us: Ex-teacher gets 6-12 years on sex, child porn counts He
admitted trysting with Lehighton girl, 13, after meeting
online.
A former Philadelphia area teacher who twice had sex with a
13-year-old Lehighton girl he met on the Internet and had
child pornography on his home computer was sentenced
Tuesday to six to 12 years in state prison.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b7-1jetter-76rfeb25,0,6008646.story

us: Parents reminded to safeguard children who use the
Internet
After hearing the story on Tuesday of14-year-old Shaunita
Renee Neace of Kiahsville allegedly being lured over the
Internet by a 26-year-old man to New York, Huntington
resident Jessie McDonie sat down with her teenage daughter
to discuss the dos and dont's of Internet surfing.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2004/February/26/LNspota.htm

us: Parents can help keep kids safe
It can take only minutes for an online predator to reach a
child in a chat room and begin victimizing. Predators may
send pornography or try to meet a child.
 http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/022304/tp2ch17.htm

za:  Online groups slam 'retrograde' Internet Bill
Sixteen top Internet online publishers and information
services conducting billions of rands in business, have
come out strongly in opposition to the government's
Convergence Bill, warning that some may be forced to move
their businesses outside of South Africa.

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/2004/02/22/business/technology/tech03.asp

A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of
Music File Sharing - "Let the Music Play" White Paper
The current battles surrounding peer-to-peer file sharing
are a losing proposition for everyone. The record labels
continue to face lackluster sales, while the tens of
millions of American file sharers -- American music fans --
are made to feel like criminals. Every day the collateral
damage mounts -- privacy at risk, innovation stymied,
economic growth suppressed, and a few unlucky individuals
singled out for legal action by the recording industry. And
the litigation campaign against music fans has not put a
penny into the pockets of artists.
 http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.php

us: Courts Shut Down DVD X Copy
On Feb. 3, the country's major movie studios, music
publishers, and recording studios asked a U.S. appellate
court to shutdown Grokster and Morpheus, two Internet
file-sharing services used to trade copyrighted songs and
movies.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/digital_piracy_pcmag_040225.html

ng: 419 Trial: Court Denies Accused Bail
The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice
Lawal Gummi, yesterday refused bail to three persons
standing trial accused of a N36.3 billion advance free
fraud otherwise known as 419.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200402240419.html

us: 3 Held After Stolen Item Is Found on EBay
When an allegedly stolen item ended up for sale on EBay, it
led to the arrests of three people for the 2-week-old
burglary, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's
Department.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-sbriefs25.4feb25,1,708302.story

za: Lawyer Awarded Damages in Web Libel Action
A court has awarded damages of R75 000 to an Eastern Cape
lawyer for defamatory statements published about him on an
internet site SA's first successful lawsuit for libel on
the web.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200402230666.html

za: What Odds of an Online Gambling Ban?
There is a good chance that laws to ban online gambling
will be unenforceable as the new National Gambling Bill
goes before parliamentary committees for debate.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200402230930.html

ITU: Shaping the future mobile information society
In recent years, the world has seen an explosion in the
growth of information and communication technologies, and
particularly mobile communications. 2002 marked a turning
point in the history of telecommunications in that the
number of mobile subscribers overtook the number of
fixed-line subscribers on a global scale, and mobile became
the dominant technology for voice communications. Indeed,
the mobile phone has moved beyond being a mere
technological object to become a key "social object"
present in every aspect of our daily lives.
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/futuremobile/

Korea Sharpens Teeth to Deter E-Mail Spam
The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC)
announced on Wednesday it will work harder to weed out spam
with stepped-up law enforcement policies and improved
technology.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200402/kt2004022518461111810.htm

New Spam Filters Cut the Noise
Two developers of open-source antispam software say their
programs can block 99.97 percent of incoming spam -- better
than what commercial products can do.

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62421,00.html

Microsoft works on outsmarting spam
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates yesterday outlined his
company's new efforts to battle the onslaught of unwanted
e-mail, including an e-mail "Caller ID" system designed to
weed out the most deceptive spam.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/business/20040224-093745-4409r.htm

Europe Weighs Antitrust Steps for Microsoft
The European Commission has drafted a preliminary ruling
that finds Microsoft guilty of abusing the dominant
position of its Windows operating system.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/26/technology/26soft.html

http://www.silicon.com/management/government/0,39024677,39118609,00.htm

JP:  Microsoft's Tokyo offices raided
Japanese trade officials raid Microsoft's Tokyo
headquarters on suspicion of monopoly law violations.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3488186.stm

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4443171

nz: Web host gets new owner
Internet service company Iconz has bought New
Plymouth-based website hosting company WebFarm and its
associated domain-name registration business, FreeParking,
for an undisclosed price.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/businessstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3550883

nz: Govt forces web rules
Most government websites will have to be changed to meet
new design rules, creating a potential bonanza for web
developers.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2822606a28,00.html

Kaspersky issues advisory about ICQ worm
Bizex, an internet worm which harvests information about
payments systems from an infected computer, is spreading
among users of ICQ, a popular messaging system, the
anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs says in an advisory issued
today.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/25/1077676819663.html

Eminem Hits Apple with 'Lose Yourself' Lawsuit
Rap superstar Eminem, who says he could earn more than $10
million for endorsing a product, is suing Apple Computer
Inc. on grounds it used one of his hit songs in a TV
advertisement without permission.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=4429376

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2233-2004Feb24.html

uk: Internet Summer School -- from Oxford
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) has announced its
second annual Summer Doctoral Programme for 2004. 
Attendees of the program will have the opportunity to
attend seminars and lectures and to share their research
with students and colleagues from around the world.  Learn
more about OII and how to apply from the program's website.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=225
 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/?rq=sdp2004

Beatles' bitter feud over Apple name
Trademark rivalry between Apple Computers and the Beatles'
company, Apple Corps, re-emerged in court yesterday in a
clash over the computer giant's iTunes online music store.
 http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=225002004

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4429398
 http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,62406,00.html

NZ scientists develop nano-wire technology
An innovation from Canterbury University's commercial arm
is creating interest in the business world.
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3551496

US Denounces Korea's Internet Platforms
The United States called for the Korean government not to
adopt a locally developed mobile Internet platform as a
national standard during two-day bilateral trade talks,
which ended on Thursday.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200402/kt2004022617412311910.htm


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