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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates in between postings. ********************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ ********************************************************** Turkey adopts law to block 'insulting' websites http://turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=72465 uk: The kids are alright online http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2075529,00.html Timely warning from an expert by Philip Argy http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21689091%5E15851%5E%5Enbv%5E15309,00.html Second Life in virtual child sex scandal http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2075340,00.html Is virtual sex with a virtual child a crime? http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/05/09/1178390422892.html br: Man not allowed to offer wife for sale on Internet (AP) http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5276847 us: Annoying Bloggers- May ISPs Reveal their Identity? http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1754 Viacom vs. YouTube: the Tip of the Iceberg http://ecommercetimes.com/story/57283.html Old media turn combative against new media (Reuters) http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKROB88479820070509 Evolution of the internet opens doors for Microsoft http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2a543a62-fc38-11db-93a4-000b5df10621.html Kiwi ingenuity drives down phone costs http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=93&objectid=10438922 *********** CENSORSHIP *********** Turkey adopts law to block 'insulting' websites Turkish lawmakers adopted a law on Friday allowing the state to block access to Internet sites that are deemed to insult the country's founder, the Anatolia news agency reported. http://turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=72465 ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ uk: The kids are alright online While parents fret about timewasting games and online predators, young people are alert to the dangers and relaxed with technologies' potential, says Richard Sarson: The "digital divide". What exactly is it? The answer, it seems, is not the gap between rich and poor, but the difference in the way young people and adults view the internet.At last month's UK Kids Online seminar, the grown-ups were wheeled out. Beverley Hughes, the minister for children, young people and families, talked about how kids use computers to "engage in social networking and to create unbelievably comprehensive personal music collections, [they are] also a valuable tool for their studies". She also, like most adults, fretted more about the risks than the opportunities. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2075529,00.html uk: Teachers slam online 'bullying' Scottish teachers have called for action to be taken to stop pupils "cyber bullying" school staff. Some websites encourage pupils to submit anonymous "reviews" of their teacher's performance. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6640835.stm *************************************** CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY *************************************** Timely warning from an expert by Philip Argy Last week's award of the world's first (ISC)2 Fellowship to Australian information security expert Professor Bill Caelli, AO, was a timely reminder of the status and influence Australia holds in the international ICT community - a position that is often ignored in Australia itself. ... When he speaks, security experts all over the world pay close attention, but his message right now is not just for the ICT community, but for business and government. In more than three decades of work in ICT security, Professor Caelli has seen it all and he's extremely concerned about where things are heading. "I'm have enormous misgivings about where things are going, with so-called rapid application development via web services schemes and the way we're increasingly relying on systems that have no inherent or integrated security capabilities," he said. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21689091%5E15851%5E%5Enbv%5E15309,00.html Second Life in virtual child sex scandal German prosecutors have launched an investigation to find anonymous participants of the online computer game Second Life, who are reportedly buying sex with other players posing as children, as well as offering child pornography for sale. http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2075340,00.html http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/89432 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6638331.stm Is virtual sex with a virtual child a crime? When is child pornography not child pornography? Can an "avatar" commit a crime? What is real, and what is not? These are questions being asked amid an emerging under-age sex case in online computer game Second Life. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/05/09/1178390422892.html The Phisher King You see phishing attack attempts nearly every day, but what you don't see is the face behind the attack. In a rare glimpse into the mind of a phisher, hacker and security expert RSnake recently engaged an attacker who says he makes $3,000 to $4,000 dollars a day and was willing to share a bit about himself and how he operates. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=123671 br: Man not allowed to offer wife for sale on Internet (AP) The government has ordered an Internet auction site to remove an advertisement in which a Brazilian man offered to sell his wife for about $50. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5276847 us: Annoying Bloggers- May ISPs Reveal their Identity? These are some revealing facts about blogs reported by Technorati statistics: The blogosphere is now 70 million weblogs wide, about 120,000 new blogs are created each day, 1.4 blogs are created every second, and 17 posts are made every second. And, who is blogging the most? The same report shows that Japan is the top blogging nation; and Japanese (37%), English (36%), Chinese (8%) and Italian (3%) respectively are the top four languages for blogging. In 2004, Lycos announced the four most popular blogging topics, entrainment; personal journals; education; health/fitness/parenting/babies/pregnancy; and politics. In 2006, another company reported that politics and technology were the most popular blogging sites in the United States. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1754 Viacom vs. YouTube: the Tip of the Iceberg The billion-dollar lawsuit between Viacom and YouTube feels like a rerun. Haven't we seen this show before? New technology from an upstart company is rapidly adopted by millions of users, transforms traditional media distribution and stretches the legacy copyright framework to its limits. Maybe these disputes are inevitable. The key players in the online content economy -- content owners, hosts, search engines and ad networks -- are still sorting out their respective rights and responsibilities in huge, emerging markets with few precedents. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/57283.html us: 2 million a week Internet betting ring quashed (AP) Some of the metropolitan area's biggest sports gamblers were not able to place their wagers Monday because officers arrested 18 operators and bookies and dismantled a $2 million (€1.47 million) -a-week Internet betting ring, officials said. http://iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/07/business/NA-FIN-US-Internet-Gambling.php http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/07/tech/main2770100.shtml Google fights back (reg req'd) Google has hit back at copyright owners who are suing the search engine company for breaching their IP rights http://managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=685187&ISS=23789 REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES TO ESTABLISH INTERNET SERVICES PROVIDERS (ISP) CONNECTIONS IN CHILE The quality of Internet Service Providers (ISP) has a direct impact on the operation of any e-business. Since e-businesses require the services of ISP, they may shop around to find the ISP that meets their necessities. Those businesses may want to know the rules governing their selected ISPs so they can judge their quality and commercial soundness. Entrepreneurs offering ISP services need to get acquainted with those rules as well. In most Latin American countries, the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications is the government agency in charge of regulating ISP. For instance, the Chilean Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications, through the Sub-secretary of Telecommunications, has published resolution 1,483 establishing the requirements and procedures for ISP in Chile. This, resolution was published in 1999 and outlines the procedures and rules to be followed by ISP in that country. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=2C2A4760-FDDB-4F21-AAE3-F77A1F01A8B1 ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** us: IRS wants data on users from Internet firms The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is sounding an early warning on a proposal in the president's 2008 budget that would require Internet businesses like eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to collect personal data on their customers and share it with the Internal Revenue Service. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018758 *************** DIGITAL DIVIDE *************** Africa Internet Use the Lowest - UN Africa is the continent with high rate of a number of diseases but with lowest as far as using the internet, a valuable source of information in today's world, is concerned, a new UN report indicated on Friday. http://allafrica.com/stories/200705070389.html us: Committee tackles NYC's digital divide Providing affordable or free broadband access to a city of more than 8 million is a daunting task. But a movement spearheaded by New York Councilwoman Gail Brewer aims to do just that, and taking a different tack from other U.S. cities trying to build metropolitan Wi-Fi networks. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/09/committee-tackles-NYC-digital-divide_1.html ************ FILE SHARING ************ Canada hit with ban on Hollywood movie previews In a move to curb what the Hollywood studios are claiming is a primary source of the illegal pirating and bootlegging of their movies on the Internet, Warner Brothers announced Monday it is cancelling all preview screenings of its summer blockbusters in Canada. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070508/movie_ban_070508/20070508 ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* Old media turn combative against new media (Reuters) Leading media executives took a combative tone against Internet companies on Tuesday, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new content distributors like Google Inc. to be more foe than friend. At a panel discussion on the second day of the 56th annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference, top executives said talk of the demise of traditional media in the digital age was overblown. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKROB88479820070509 Evolution of the internet opens doors for Microsoft A coming shift in the dynamics of the internet advertising business, as the momentum starts to shift away from the keyword-based systems used by search engines, is one of the biggest factors behind Microsoft's takeover approach to Yahoo, according to industry executives and analysts. Microsoft has shown few signs yet that it is even starting to win back any ground lost to Google in search, despite heavy investments over the past three years to build its own search engine and keyword advertising system. Other changes in online advertising, however, could create new opportunities to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with its biggest rival. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2a543a62-fc38-11db-93a4-000b5df10621.html ***** VoIP ***** Ready or Not... Here Come the IRC-Controlled SIP/VoIP Attack Bots and Botnets! A story: ZZZ Telemarketing (not a real name) is locked in a heated fight with their bitter rival, YYY Telemarketing (also not a real name), to win a very large lead generation contract with Customer X. Customer X has decided to run a test pitting the two companies against each other for a week to see who can generate the most leads. The ZZZ CEO has said to his staff that it is “do or die” for the company. If they fail to win the contract, they will have to shut down—they need to do “whatever it takes” to win over YYY. A ZZZ staffer discovers that part of why YYY has consistently underbid them is because they are using SIP trunks to reduce their PSTN connection costs. But the staffer also discovers that YYY is using very cheap voice service providers who run over the public Internet with no security. http://www.circleid.com/posts/irc_controlled_sip_voip_attack_bots_botnets/ Kiwi ingenuity drives down phone costs A Dunedin tech company has put another nail in the coffin of old-fashioned telephone networks. VentureVoIP Ltd, a New Zealand-owned technology company, has launched what they are claiming is "the world's first VoIP end-to-end telecommunications solution". http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=93&objectid=10438922 VoIP telephony market to top 25 million US households by 2012, says JupiterResearch The voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephony market will top 25 million US households by 2012, driven by greater broadband subscribership and the expansion by cable operators into new markets, according to research firm JupiterResearch. http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20070509PR200.html ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: Power jailed for 15 months Disgraced NSW senior prosecutor Patrick John Power was sentenced to 15 months' jail for possessing hundreds of images of child pornography, and videos, including one characterised as being in the worst "sadistic" category. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/05/09/1178390375713.html http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21700076-2,00.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1918738.htm ch: Dozens arrested in child pornography raids Swiss police said on Tuesday they have arrested dozens of people and recovered a large amount of child pornography in a nationwide operation involving around 200 raids. http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20070508221222253C573285 Italian police crack down on child porn Italian police said on Wednesday it had made two arrests, filed charges against 53 people and searched dozens of homes across 31 Italian towns in an attempt to break up an Internet child pornography ring rooted in Germany. http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20070509122749739C674632 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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