general internet news - 6 May

Pakistan may ban cybercafes
CYBERCAFES are favourite hangouts for Pakistanis young and
old to play games, chat, email, surf the web... or send
terror emails and watch hard porn.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9476545%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040504/323/esp1z.html

Jailed Vietnamese cyber-dissident to appeal charges
A Vietnamese cyber-dissident jailed for seven years on
espionage charges late last year as part of the communist
regime's campaign to silence online criticism will appeal
his conviction on Wednesday.
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=10849

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2004/May/theworld_May46.xml&section=theworld
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=5045041

ie: Child porn reports double, internet report reveals
Reports of child porn on the internet from Irish net
surfers have more than doubled, a new report has revealed.
The second report from the Irish web watchdog, Hotline,
showed none of these sites were hosted from Ireland.
 http://breaking.examiner.ie/2004/05/04/story145957.html

http://www.utvinternet.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=45341&pt=n

http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=103045642&p=yx3x46348&n=103046402

The Internet Service Providers' Association of Ireland
Announces the publication of the "Second Report Of The
www.hotline.ie Service" For the two-year period from 1 July
2001 to 30 June 2003 (news release)
 https://www.hotline.ie/html02/p8.htm

au: An end to innocence
DAVID Ford, an Australian high school teacher who worked as
a volunteer chemistry and biology adviser at Royal Phnom
Penh University, says that he did not sleep with underage
Cambodian boys but it was not for lack of opportunity.
...
In Cambodia, the strength of the evidence has not always
been the key factor in determining the outcome of child-sex
allegations. When Briton John Keeler faced court in 2000,
he was remorseful about filming two naked girls, eight and
10, and downloading the images on to his computer. But when
his three-year sentence was announced, he cursed his lawyer
and threw tables around the courtroom, telling observers he
had paid $US5000 in bribes and had been promised an
acquittal.

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9432279%255E28737,00.html

us: FBI - Online Child Pornography Innocent Images National
Initiative
Computer telecommunications have become one of the most
prevalent techniques used by pedophiles to share illegal
photographic images of minors and to lure children into
illicit sexual relationships. The Internet has dramatically
increased the access of sex offenders to the population
they seek to victimize.
 http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/innocent.htm

U.S. blunders with keyword blacklist
The U.S. government concocted a brilliant plan a few years
ago: Why not give Internet surfers in China and Iran the
ability to bypass their nations' notoriously restrictive
blocks on Web sites? Soon afterward, the U.S. International
Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) invented a way to let people in
China and Iran easily route around censorship by using a
U.S.-based service to view banned sites such as BBC News,
MIT and Amnesty International.
 http://news.com.com/2010-1028_3-5204405.html

Anti-censorship web service censors itself
A web-proxy service set up by the US government's
International Broadcasting Bureau to enable websurfers in
Iran to evade censorship is itself massively censoring what
they can see.
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994952

New Study on Internet Filtering Released
In response to recent studies of Internet filtering and
censorship in Iran, the US International Broadcasting
Bureau has developed software it calls the "Anonymizer,"
which allows individuals inside Iran to bypass the
country's net filters.  However, a new study from the Open
Net Initiative -- a joint collaboration by researchers at
the Berkman Center, the University of Toronto, and the
University of Cambridge -- has found a number of
inconsistencies in the Anonymizer system, which provides
neither the anonymity nor the security that it purports to
offer.  As the report notes, "It is curious to find the
United States government promoting a tool to circumvent
Iranian limits on freedom while imposing crude and, even by
its own standards, widely overdrawn limits of its own." 
Read Declan McCullagh's story in CNet about the
inconsistencies and problems with the Anonymizer.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=286

Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention
Technologies: The IBB's Anonymizer Service in Iran
Internet access in Iran is subject to official censorship.
Iranian authorities' guidelines for ISPs and users
reportedly warn them to avoid all content seen as being in
breach of social and cultural norms. In practice, the
filtering of Iranian ISPs extends to cover political as
well as pornographic web sites. In September 2003, the U.S.
International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) sponsored the
launch of a service through Anonymizer, Inc., designed to
allow Iranian Internet users to bypass much of Iran's
national filtering regime. Throughout this report we refer
to the service as the "IBB Anonymizer" to emphasize that it
is distinct from the general services offered to the public
by Anonymizer, Inc.
 http://www.opennetinitiative.net/advisories/001/

Pornographers to ring up more profit
Amsterdam, home of one of Europe's most renowned red-light
districts, is not a surprising location to exhibit X-rated
products for sale. But there were some strange bedfellows
at a conference there last month: executives from some of
the world's largest and most respected mobile phone
companies mingling with sex-shop owners, publishers of
pornography and producers of hard-core videos.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/518178.html
 
Library Filters
After several years of public debate, the controversy over
whether to filter taxpayer-funded computers in our public
libraries rumbles on. While some local libraries
in our communities have installed filtering
safeguards [mostly on children's computers] many library
Boards refuse to even consider filters, claiming that
doing so violates the First Amendment free access to
all information or that filtering software has not yet
reached perfection.
 http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_3541.shtml

Fighting Child Pornography
In time of intensive global computerization humanity faced
plenty of challenges, which have quickly turned into real
threats to economic and social well-being.
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/04.05.2004/257

uk: Cyber-crime fight may need new laws
Unclear legislation and a lack of resources may be holding
back the fight against cyber-crime, according to experts.
The All Party Internet Group is holding an inquiry into the
14-year-old Computer Misuse Act (CMA), to feed into a Home
Office review of the legislation.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1154917

us: E-Porn, Dot-Kids on House Subcommittee Calendar
The adult Internet and the dot-kids Internet domain are
subjects of scheduled back-to-back hearings by the U.S.
House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade,
and Consumer Protection early May 6.

http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=82964

us: The accidental arbiter
FCC Chairman Michael Powell finds himself in the middle of
a battle over free speech and indecency.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0505/p15s01-uspo.html

uk: Phone technology worries parents
Nearly three-quarters of parents are worried that video
mobile phones will harm their children, a survey shows.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3685875.stm

ie: Curtin given two weeks to put case
Circuit Court judge Brian Curtin, who was controversially
acquitted on child pornography charges, has been given two
extra weeks to put his case to the Government, it was
confirmed.
 http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=3111705

U.S. company admits handling child pornography credit card
payments
A Florida company pleaded guilty Monday to processing
credit card payments for an international child pornography
ring, and agreed to forfeit $1.1 million and dissolve its
business.

http://www.detnews.com/2004/technology/0405/04/technology-141376.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-03-childporn-payments_x.htm

hk: Expats held for child porn
Eighteen men, including six expatriates from Australia,
Britain, the Netherlands and Thailand were arrested in Hong
Kong on Monday for possession of internet child
pornography.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1521303,00.html

us: Ex-deputy gets 1-year term in Web porn case
A former veteran deputy with the Oakland County Sheriff's
Department was led away in handcuffs -- and tears --
Tuesday to serve a year behind bars for buying child
pornography.
 http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/gomez5_20040505.htm

us: Police say man sent images over Internet
A 40-year-old Joshua-area man is being held in the Tarrant
County Jail on a motion to revoke parole after becoming a
suspect in an Internet child pornography distribution case.

http://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/articles/2004/05/04/news/local_news/news01.txt

au: Office spying laws causing confusion (sub req'd)
The NSW government is being accused of throwing employers
into a state of confusion over proposed laws that would
stop bosses from spying on workplace emails.

http://afr.com/premium/articles/2004/05/03/1083436539231.html

uk: Oxford Media Summer Programme: The Media Law Advocates
Programme - 12 - 30 July 2004
The aim of the Media Law Advocates Programme (MLAP) is to
train specialist lawyers in media litigation skills, with a
special emphasis on litigation before the international and
regional tribunals, such as the European Court of Human
Rights. The courses offered deal with defamation and libel
(pre-publication reading, responding to threats of suit,
defensive techniques), media freedom, licensing and
administration of licensing, Internet, and the legal and
business aspects of media practice (Television without
Frontiers Directive, national approaches to media
regulation, hate speech, copyright, and public service
broadcasting.) There are also sessions on the right of
access to information and on strategies for litigating
under freedom of information acts. Running throughout the
course is an emphasis on the use of human rights arguments
and litigation before the national and international
tribunals.
 http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/MLAP2004.htm

Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?
Three nonprofit groups say Google's forthcoming service is
an "invasion" into private communications. Privacy law
experts are skeptical of the claim.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5205554.html

us: Harmony Rules in the Future of Music
Future of Music Summit Offers an Interlude in the Online
Piracy Cacophony.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55936-2004Apr30.html

kr: Online music service dispute nearing settlement
A lengthy conflict between the country's largest online
music provider and the recording industry could be nearing
a settlement, according to some industry insiders.

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/05/04/200405040033.asp

au: Banks oppose net bet card ban
BANKERS have dismissed a proposal to block Australian
punters from using credit cards at online casinos, arguing
their customers should be allowed to "spend their money how
they choose".

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9461775%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be reheard
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ordered that
a suit between software maker Gator.com and cataloger L.L.
Bean be reheard in en banc court, a decision that requires
greater scrutiny of the case. The lawsuit centers on a
dispute that the advertising software of Gator, now known
as Claria, infringes the trademarks of L.L. Bean when
pop-up ads of the retailer's rivals appear over its Web
site. Claria sued L.L. Bean after the retailer sent a
cease-and-desist letter asking it to stop delivering ads
atop its pages.
 http://news.com.com/2110-1038_3-5203211.html
9th Circuit to Rehear Internet Jurisdiction Case
 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1082923377251

Antigua wins internet gambling fight against US
The World Trade Organisation has upheld a report that the
hard line taken by the US on internet gambling is in breach
of world trade rules. The state of Antigua and Barbuda had
complained that the stance of the US was damaging its
economy.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=antiguawinsinterne1083668490

Czech internet penetration reaches 15 per cent 
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=1669

A recipe for battling spam in Canada
Over the past ten years, spam has grown from a minor
annoyance to a global concern, threatening the reliability
of electronic communication and the adoption of electronic
commerce. Despite developing anti-spam technological tools,
promoting greater consumer awareness, and the introduction
of anti-spam legislation in many countries, the spam
problem continues unabated.
 http://shorl.com/gisatystabrope

http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1083535812980&call_pageid=971794782442&col=971886476975

my: Framework against spam
THE National ICT Security and Emergency Response Centre
(Niser) intends to propose a framework for a national
policy on spam as a proactive measure to protect the
country’s infostructure against security breaches
propagated by such incidents.
 http://www.niser.org.my/news/2004_04_26_01.html

Microsoft to "whitelist" spammers
Microsoft said on it has adopted an e-mail "whitelist"
programme by IronPort Systems that will allow legitimate
marketers to thread the gauntlet of spam filters protecting
its inboxes.

http://www.tvnz.co.nz/view/news_story_skin/424426?format=html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=5040507

Survey exposes holes in antispam armor
One in every three companies that have an antispam tool in
place has not updated the software since installation,
according to a survey released Tuesday. The study,
conducted by antispam-software maker Clearswift and privacy
group TRUSTe, found that more than 72 percent of
organizations surveyed had some spam defense in place. But
55 percent of them felt those defenses were inadequate.
 http://news.com.com/2110-1032_3-5205803.html	

President Mubarak Attends Ribbon Cutting Ceremony At Africa
Telecom 2004
ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi says he hopes this
year's ITU Telecom Africa will play a role in helping reach
the goals set at the World Summit for the Information
Society in Geneva last year.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200405040568.html

Digital Solidarity "WSIS"
Forum concluding session at ITU TELECOM AFRICA to debate
achievements of the first phase of the World Summit of the
Information Society (WSIS), and to examine the preparations
for the second phase to be held in Tunis.
 http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2004/NP08.html

ITU positions itself for bridging Africa’s digital divide
at Cairo forum
THE telecommunications  forum holding in Cairo, Egypt this
week, organised by the International Telecommunications
Union  (ITU) might bring into sharper focus the suspicion 
between the ITU and the US in the drive to bridge the
digital divide in Africa.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/features/fe305052004.html

Windows XP 'selling strongly'
More than 210 million copies of Microsoft's flagship
operating system have been sold since its launch in 2001,
the company says.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39153394,00.htm

'Sasser' Worm Strikes Hundreds of Thousands of PCs
A new Internet worm that infected hundreds of thousands of
computers over the weekend picked up speed as people
returned to work on Monday and turned on their infected
PCs, security experts said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63002-2004May3.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/security/story/0,14230,1209794,00.html

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1083180258490&p=1057562182635
Worm Brings Down PC's and Networks
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/04/business/04worm.html
Computer security experts lament laggardly pace of patches

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-05-05-patch-chiding_x.htm
Hunt for Sasser Worm Culprit Starts in Earnest

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=5045363
Chinese government is bracing for attack by Sasser worm
 http://www.iht.com/articles/518438.html

Home users hit by Sasser worm
Only 20% of worm's victims are businesses as home users
bear the brunt of the Sasser infection.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3685675.stm

Estonia embraces web without wires
Wireless internet access is changing the way Estonians go
online.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3673619.stm

Canada's Phone Giants Face Internet Threat
Canada's telephone services are threatened by rivals
offering an increasingly popular technology known as
voice-over-Internet protocol.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/business/worldbusiness/05canada.html


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