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http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ Internet in Asia blog: http://sirc.blogspot.com/ *************************************************** CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ****************************************** us: My kid's new best friend � a punk or a predator? Donna Johnson Edwards Richmond.com Tuesday, January 04, 2005 Imagine that you just found out that your 13-year-old has been conversing with an adult stranger. Not only has there been ongoing communications, but your child considers the �stranger� a friend, perhaps even a good friend. Does this sound bizarre to you? Do you think your kid couldn�t have an adult friend without your knowing about it? Think again; if they have access to the Internet it could be happening right now. http://www.richmond.com/sci-tech/output.aspx?ID=3409635 us: Cell phones are becoming portable porn purveyors Pornography, which surged into one of the biggest businesses on the Internet, is now headed to cell phones. http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2508967 fr: Versicherungsmakler wegen Kinderpornos verhaftet Ein 57-j�hriger Versicherungsberater aus dem franz�sischen St�dtchen Taverny wurde festgenommen mit dem Vorwurf, etliche Tausend kinderpornografische Fotos und Filme per Internet verbreitet zu haben. http://newsbyte.ch/start.cfm?gruppe=news&rubrik=alle&startid=65317&action=1 ******************* LEGAL AND SECURITY ******************* ph: Intensified drive vs child pornography rings vowed The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has vowed to intensify its campaign against child pornography rings this new year. http://www.mb.com.ph/MTNN2005010425668.html uk: Tsunami email hoaxer admits guilt A man admits sending hoax emails telling people their relatives missing in the Asian tsunami were dead. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/4142463.stm http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39183013,00.htm http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7218752 uk: Hoax emails said missing were dead A 40-year-old man from Lincolnshire pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious communications after sending hoax emails to friends and relatives of people missing in the tsunami saying they were dead. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1382719,00.html au: Tsunami donations Web site author escapes charges No charges will be filed against a teenager behind a Web site asking for donations for the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, according to the Tasmanian police. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39176159,00.htm Nigerian scammers 'exploit tsunami tragedy' Nigerian scammers appear to be trying to cash in on the public sympathy for the victims of the South-East Asian tsunami. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39176212,00.htm us: Evel Knievel can't sue website Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel cannot sue a website that published a photo of him with two women above a caption reading "You're never too old to be a pimp," a U.S. appeals court has ruled. http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=7236078 http://smh.com.au/news/World/Pimp-compliment/2005/01/05/1104832140325.html us: EFF Throws Support to 'Anonymous' Internet Project The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org) is throwing its support behind a new version of an open source project designed to protect Internet surfers from online snoops. http://internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3454521 eBay takes on phishers with email service The auction giant is to set up a secure email service for communicating with its customers in an attempt to shut out the scammers http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/ecommerce/0,39020372,39183092,00.htm 2004 Year in Review - Online Dangers Likely to Continue Growing in 2005 Internet users witnessed yet another wave of spam, worms, viruses and other online attacks in 2004, and experts predict the online world will grow even more dangerous in 2005. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4005-2004Dec16.html When email attacks get personal Phishing attacks or online identity theft has established itself as the principal threat of 2004, and may signal the beginning of a wave of email security attacks targeted specifically at individual or small groups of companies.This puts business firmly on the front line in the fight against online attacks, according to the annual MessageLabs Intelligence Email Security Report for 2004 (*) released today by MessageLabs, the leading provider of managed email security services to business worldwide. http://spamfo.co.uk/component/option,com_content/task,view/id,198/Itemid,2/ Person to Person Security and Privacy Infringement IT security strategies invariably focus on maintaining impenetrable fortresses around computers and network systems. Firewalls, virtual private networks and anti-virus programs are the tools IT engineers use to create their digital security. Sophisticated defense systems can be very effective at keeping the obvious attackers at bay, yet they often create a false sense of security because the real attacks, the kind that inflict irreparable damage on a system or network, avoid the obvious routes into the secure fortress. http://www.circleid.com/article/869_0_1_0_C/ ****** POLICY ****** us: Bruning unveils crime legislation Bills to combat identity theft, child pornography and e-mail spam will be introduced in the 2005 Legislature as part of Attorney General Jon Bruning's crime package. http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=1638&u_sid=1301015 http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/01/05/local/doc41dadb34decc2108015112.txt http://www.theindependent.com/stories/010505/new_bruning05.shtml us: Heavy hitter's light touch John Suthers likely will be confirmed this month with little resistance as Colorado's next attorney general, political insiders predict. ... But it's hard to see Suthers' hand in the federal prosecutions he has overseen as U.S. attorney. Many issues that took priority during his tenure there - terrorism, immigration, gun crimes, drugs and online child pornography - fit with the priorities set by outgoing U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2631816,00.html Philippines cybercrime bill to cover cell phones The latest draft version of a cybercrime bill that will be filed to The Philippines' Congress next year will cover not only computers and computer networks but mobile devices as well. http://crime-research.org/news/05.01.2005/878/ ***** SPAM ***** us: Spam king agrees to halt activity A man who earned the title "spam king" as the nation's largest bulk e-mailer agreed to halt his activity in a preliminary settlement with US regulators, court documents show. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39176226,00.htm http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/04/business/ttk.html ************ INTERNET USE ************ Politics, E-Mail And The Gift Economy Appropriately enough, with the holiday season upon us, this might be a good time to consider the role of the Internet in distributing intellectual capital as part of the so-called "gift economy," particularly as it applies to politics. http://forbes.com/2004/12/20/cx_sm_1220mcgookin.html 'Raid' can be embarrassing � or worse They were wrong, which they learned when copies of their photos were sent to the news media. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600101955,00.html us: Blog reading explodes in America About 32 million people in the US read a blog in 2004 but less than half of Americans know what a blog is, says a survey. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4145191.stm Blog Readership Surged 58 Percent in 2004 Pew study also profiles bloggers, and says RSS aggregation is a wave of the future for online information consumption. http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/article.php/3453431 DANTE - EAST meets WEST with creation of TEIN2 network for South East Asia East will soon meet West with the creation of the first pan-Asian research and education network, which will be directly connected to G�ANT2. This connection will help provide the Asian countries with a gateway for global research collaboration. The Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN) initiative was as an outcome of the ASEM (Asia-Europe) Meeting in 2000 between EU Member States and Asian partners to improve research networking between Europe and Asia. From (p4): http://www.markle.org/weekly_digest/weeklydigest_vol.4_issue1.pdf http://www.dante.net/server/show/conWebDoc.1148 us: The internet and democratic debate Wired Americans hear more points of view about candidates and key issues than other citizens. They are not using the internet to screen out ideas with which they disagree. From (p7): http://www.markle.org/weekly_digest/weeklydigest_vol.4_issue1.pdf http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Political_Info_Report.pdf ****************** ONLINE MUSIC & P2P ****************** us: Court Rejects Music Industry Subpoenas Music-industry investigators must file a lawsuit to uncover the identities of people who may be copying their songs online, a U.S. appeals court said Tuesday in a decision that echoes earlier rulings on the subject. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47888-2005Jan4.html http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DOWNLOADING_MUSIC ************************ COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ************************ The War Inside the Arab Newsroom (this isn't dealing with the internet, but is an interesting article for those interested in media issues) Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, the general manager of Al Arabiya, a 24-hour satellite-news channel broadcasting from Dubai, has six plasma-screen TV's in his office on the floor of the channel's glowing, ultramodern newsroom set. They are always on. One is tuned to Al Arabiya itself, and depending on where the cameras are placed, Al-Rashed sometimes catches a glimpse of himself, pacing around his desk on his cellphone. Another shows Al Jazeera, the channel's main competition. A third is tuned to a new Saudi government satellite channel, and a fourth displays CNN. Al-Rashed likes to flip around on the other two -- from Al Hurra, the widely ignored news channel that the United States government started last February, to the BBC and then to Al Manar, the Hezbollah-owned station that was banned by the French and American governments last month for broadcasting anti-Semitic slanders and what a State Department spokesman called "incitement to violence." http://nytimes.com/2005/01/02/magazine/02ARAB.html Indian State Eyes Faster Internet Project In a bid to give a big push to e-governance, an Indian state on Monday cleared a plan that will help its officials move Internet data thousand times faster than now. Under the plan, a consortium of six companies will build a new broadband network in southern Andhra Pradesh state, said Mohammed Ali Shabbir, the state's information minister. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=380157&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** uk: Child porn pictures case A MAN appeared in court on Christmas Eve accused of making more than 1,000 indecent pictures of children. http://crime-research.org/news/03.01.2005/875/ us: School Employee Caught With Child Pornography Two miles from where Ryan Klimek's brother plays basketball is Hazel Green High School. Classes don't start back until Wednesday. But over the holiday break, students learned an interesting lesson. A teacher's aide at the school has been charged with having child pornography. http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2760096&nav=1VPuUnjV us: Gonzales man admits guilt in child-porn case A Gonzales man admitted Tuesday he distributed child pornography on the Internet from his Spanish Town home and Townsouth Avenue business. http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/010505/new_guilt001.shtml http://www.dailycomet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050105/APN/501050555 us: Hazel Green school aide charged in Internet child porn sting A Hazel Green High School special education aide has been charged in an Internet child pornography sting involving a New Hampshire police department. http://www.wpmi.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=42ACAAB0-20BD-4A2C-BDB7-EC9BEE12C82D http://www.newsenterpriseonline.com/articles/2005/01/04/news/news02.txt http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=2758994&nav=EQlpUlug us: Two sentenced for child porn Lara Roetzel, chief deputy Pennington County state's attorney, argued in two different sentencing hearings Monday that a demand for child pornography creates a market for the rape of children and that those who possess it should be given a sentence harsh enough to deter others. http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2005/01/04/news/local/news02a.txt us: N.O. Man Wanted On Child Porn Charge New Orleans police are asking for the public's help in locating a man wanted in connection with child pornography. http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/news/4043678/detail.html http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/WCVB/20050103/lo_wdsu/2521146 us: Cullman County Man Indicted In Child Porn Case A Cullman County man has been indicted on child pornography charges. http://www.nbc13.com/news/4038755/detail.html us: Puppy salesman was online predator Dustyn Matthews, 26, who worked in Sherwood as a puppy salesman, was sentenced Thursday, Dec. 16, to 18 months in prison on computer child pornography charges by White County Circuit Judge Robert Edwards. http://www.sherwoodvoice.com/Pages/12-30-04/Puppy%20salesman%20was%20online%20predator.htm +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for the latest domain news. 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