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********************************************************** Don't forget to check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for a more recent edition of the complete domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates. ********************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ ********************************************************** at: Vienna busts huge child porn ring http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6338125.stm Net safety day marked worldwide http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6332619.stm German police barred from secretly searching computers over Internet (AP) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16628932.htm us: Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6156976.html us: GOP revives ISP-tracking legislation http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6156948.html us: Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6156976.html New Energy Star ratings for PCs on the way http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6157317.html *********** CENSORSHIP *********** ru: The slow, painful death of journalism in Russia by Oksana Chelysheva Did you read about the death of press freedom in Russia the other day? Well, probably not. Independent journalism doesn't expire in a single, dramatic moment. It's more like a series of small blows, leading not to out-and-out demise but suffocation and a life-sucking loss of morale. http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2237670.ece Google Earth prompts Indian fears Google is in talks with India about sensitive sites viewable via the Google Earth service. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6331033.stm China unblocks Taiwan newspaper Web sites (Reuters) China has allowed access to Internet versions of two of Taiwan's top daily newspapers after blocking them for years for fear they would spread anti-Communist propaganda, a Taiwan official said on Monday. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6156197.html Blogs come under Olympic scrutiny The IOC is examining what to do about blogs posted by athletes during the Olympic Games. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/02/08/1170524216063.html ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ at: Vienna busts huge child porn ring Austria has uncovered an international child pornography network involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, the interior minister said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6338125.stm http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Austria_smashes_global_child_porn_operation.html http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/981970 Child Pornography on Vienna Computer Prompts Worldwide Hunt Austrian authorities have gathered information on more than 2,360 individuals from 77 countries who tried to view child pornography through a Russian Web site stored on a Vienna computer, the countrys Interior Ministry said Wednesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/world/europe/08austria.html Britons under investigation in global internet paedophile ring Twenty-nine Britons are being investigated on suspicion of downloading child pornography after European investigators claimed to have cracked one of the largest global paedophile rings ever discovered. http://www.guardian.co.uk/austria/article/0,,2007961,00.html 600 Americans Busted In Global Child Porn Ring Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who paid to view videos of young children being sexually abused. http://www.nbc5.com/technology/10952466/detail.html za: SA users in brutal online child porn ring The SA Police Service has been alerted that South Africans are among thousands of people all over the world who have been logging on to a shocking child porn site. http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2885&iArticleId=3671414 RCMP to probe Canadian IPs in global child-porn network Austrian authorities who uncovered a global child pornography network said Wednesday they have handed over at least 103 Canadian IP computer addresses to the RCMP. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/07/070207.html uk: Crackdown on paedophiles' internet aliases Internet paedophiles could be forced to register all their online nicknames and email addresses with the authorities as part of a new crackdown, it was revealed today. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2007095,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6333673.stm Online Smut: More Young People Getting an Eyeful It will probably come as no surprise to most Internet users that a new survey, published in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics (an abstract is available here), found that nearly half of all young people reported exposure, intentional or otherwise, to online pornography. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/online-smut-more-young-people-getting-an-eyeful/ Double-take on Net pornography study A two-year-old study on teens' exposure to online pornography went far and wide in the news Monday--much further than last summer, when the study's findings were first announced by the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center. http://news.com.com/2061-12645_3-6156470.html Rising number of kids exposed to online porn More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit websites while surfing the internet, researchers say. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/02/05/1170524016988.html http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6156135.html PC pros to protect children online Frightening levels of sexual abuse have surfaced over the last five years as the Internet increasingly spreads into homes throughout the world. http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2885&iArticleId=3671375 Net safety day marked worldwide Efforts to make the net less risky for children are being marked by the fourth Internet Safety Day on 6 February. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6332619.stm au: Safer Internet Day - educating young people across the world Australian Internet users are set to make online history this week when they participate in the second worldwide Blogathon as part of Safer Internet Day on February 6, 2007. http://netalert.net.au/03828-Safer-Internet-Day---educating-young-people-across-the-world.asp uk: Men jailed for online rape plot Three men who used an internet chat room to hatch a plot to rape two young sisters have been jailed. They made "chilling references to the Soham murders" on a free website, Southwark Crown Court heard. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6331517.stm The chatroom language that spells danger for your child The secret language children use in online chatrooms was unveiled yesterday to help parents trap paedophiles. Youngsters use the codes and acronyms - including MOS (Mum Over Shoulder) - when conversing about sensitive subjects with friends online. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=434453 nz: Bullied students fear new term Children head back to school this week and for a few students who are being bullied it is a time of dread. But bullies not only torment people at school they also do it on the internet - a growing problem that has forced two West Coast teenagers to move school. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/979303 *************************************** CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY *************************************** Google's Schmidt pitches 'self-governing' Net Google CEO Eric Schmidt's nightmare scenario for a future Internet looks like this: As billions more people go online, those in power are so "freaked out" about the misuse of personal information that they suffocate the Web with stifling regulations. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6156821.html Deal ends Beatles' Apple battle Technology giant Apple reaches a deal with the Beatles to end the dispute over the Apple name. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6332319.stm http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6156158.html Gates says technology's biggest challenge is keeping data secure Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's most formidable challenge, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16637223.htm German police attack ban on computer surveillance (Reuters) German police on Tuesday attacked a court ruling banning them from secretly monitoring computers, saying electronic searches were essential to hunting down terrorism suspects. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-02-06T135853Z_01_L06152618_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-COURT-SPYING.xml German police barred from secretly searching computers over Internet (AP) Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday. The decision of the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe bars police from using software to search through remote hard drives unless parliament passes a law explicitly allowing the technique. Police, however, still will be allowed to seize evidence from PCs when conducting searches in person. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16628932.htm http://out-law.com/page-7737 China shuts 205 sites in piracy crackdown A massive crackdown in China on illegal online activities may add credibility to their efforts to take piracy seriously. http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2885&iArticleId=3671136 za: Cybercrime 'About to Take Off' AN INITIATIVE by Standard Bank to tighten the safety of online banking has failed, with fewer than one in seven customers bothering to use the security software. The bank launched its security pin pad feature after money was filtered out of accounts by using keystroke logging software, which records the personal identity number (PIN) typed in by customers. http://allafrica.com/stories/200702080805.html Singaporean jailed for illegal wireless access, bomb hoax (AP) A Singapore man was sentenced to three months in prison Wednesday for illegally accessing wireless Internet networks and posting a bomb threat, becoming the first person in the city-state to be jailed for logging onto someone else's wireless Web account. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16645313.htm us: Law Would Ban IPods When Crossing Street (AP) Walk, jog or bicycle across a New York street with an iPod plugged in your ears and you could get slapped with a $100 ticket under a new law proposed by a legislator from Brooklyn. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEDESTRIAN_ELECTRONICS ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** us: Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate lays the groundwork for a national database of illegal images that Internet service providers would use to automatically flag and report suspicious content to police. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6156976.html us: GOP revives ISP-tracking legislation All Internet service providers would need to track their customers' online activities to aid police in future investigations under legislation introduced Tuesday as part of a Republican "law and order agenda." http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6156948.html us: Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate lays the groundwork for a national database of illegal images that Internet service providers would use to automatically flag and report suspicious content to police. http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6156976.html ca: Government documents suggest Tories not nervous about ISPs interfering with Net Internal documents suggest the Tory government is reluctant to impose consumer safeguards for the web because it wants to protect the competitive position of businesses that offer Internet access. http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/070206/b0206149A.html ke: Bill to regulate ICT sector set to become law The Information and Communications Bill 2006 has been published and will soon be passed into law to put in place a framework for the sectors growth, Information minister Mutahi Kagwe says. http://www.timesnews.co.ke/02feb07/business/buns1.html us: Google Still Searching For Recognition in D.C. Google has transformed the Internet. But the executives who have made billions from Internet searching -- and who get mobbed by geeks in the San Francisco Bay area and praised by analysts on Wall Street -- barely stir the kind excitement in Washington generated by, say, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her outfit at the State of the Union address. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601768.html ***** SPAM ***** nl: Dutch spammer fined $97,000 for sending 9 billion unwanted e-mails (AP) A spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements for products like erection pills faces a hefty fine: If he needs headache medication or debt relief there's probably an unsolicited ad in his own inbox. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16608875.htm ***************************** INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE ***************************** Firefox claws away at Explorer MORE than a fifth of Australians now use the Mozilla Firefox web browser, even though site compatibility issues mean it sometimes must be used in conjunction with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, researcher Nielsen Net Ratings says. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21176120%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html *************** DIGITAL DIVIDE *************** The true value of mobile phones to developing markets (sub req'd) An estimate of the economic benefits of wireless activity must include not only wireless operators but also auxiliary players and end users. http://mckinseyquarterly.com/article_abstract_visitor.aspx?ar=1917 ************ FILE SHARING ************ Apple to Vista upgraders: 'Wait' Apple's iTunes music software is not fully compatible with Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6330913.stm Aussies bid to share the video wealth Three Australians to take on the YouTube video-sharing giant with a site of their own. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/02/08/1170524213679.html us: NY Senator Wants iPods Out of Crosswalks New York pedestrians could find themselves on the wrong side of the law just for crossing the street while chatting on a cell phone or listening to an iPod if state Senator Carl Kruger gets his way. The New York lawmaker plans to introduce legislation to make it illegal to use portable electronic devices such as a BlackBerry or PlayStation Portable game console while crossing the street. The legislation comes after the deaths of two pedestrians in Sen. Kruger's Brooklyn district within the past five months. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/55652.html ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* I hate Macs Unless you have been walking around with your eyes closed, and your head encased in a block of concrete, with a blindfold tied round it, in the dark - unless you have been doing that, you surely can't have failed to notice the current Apple Macintosh campaign starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, which has taken over magazines, newspapers and the internet in a series of brutal coordinated attacks aimed at causing massive loss of resistance. ... I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui. http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2005931,00.html Gmail now a free-for-all Service ready to accept all comers after invitation-only phase. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-08-gmail-for-all_x.htm http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1352352.ece New Energy Star ratings for PCs on the way Standards for energy-efficient PCs are about to take a step forward for the first time in more than a decade. http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6157317.html Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? Aristotle distinguished between friendships based on communal interests and those of soulmates who bonded out of mutual affection. The vast majority of people signed up for MySpace, Rupert Murdoch's phenomenally successful networking site, fall into the former category. But on present showing that won't stop its continuing expansion which, as the MySpace generation goes into employment, could eventually extend Murdoch's influence in ways that would make his grip on satellite television seem parochial. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2007709,00.html ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: Man sentenced for importing child porn AN Austrian man has received a six-month suspended jail sentence and fine for importing child pornography into Queensland. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21194000-1702,00.html au: Child porn accused prosecutor quits A SENIOR prosecutor facing a possible jail term for possessing child pornography has resigned from the Office of the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP). http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21192653-29277,00.html au: Man in court over child porn A SYDNEY man will face court today charged with possessing child pornography. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21196880-1702,00.html uk: Paedophile trio locked up on chat room evidence Three paedophiles who used internet chat rooms to plot to kidnap and rape two sisters were jailed for a total of 27 years at Southern Crown Court on Monday. http://out-law.com/page-7735 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! 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