Refleksi: Indonesia tanah penuh koruptor melarang mengadakan bisness dengan Israel, tetapi tanah suci alias Arab Saudia mempunyai hubungan dalam bidang IT dengan Israel. Aneh atau ajaib? Walahualam pikir sendiri. Silahkan lihat pada artikel terlampir tentang Tel Aviv universitas berkerja sama dengan pakar Arab saudia.
Siapa bodoh, siapa pintar? http://thejakartaglobe.com/business/indonesian-ministry-to-ban-it-business-links-with-israeli-firms/347651 December 15, 2009 Yessar Rosendar Indonesian Ministry to Ban IT Business Links With Israeli Firms The Ministry for Communications and Information Technology said on Tuesday it was planning to investigate telecommunications companies involved in business deals with Israel, a day after the minister said a company would be dropped from a tender because it had an Israeli shareholder. "We will investigate the involvement of Israel-affiliated companies in the telecommunications industry, and we will sanction [local companies] if we find there are violations of regulations," Gatot S Dewa Broto, a ministry spokesman, told the Jakarta Globe. On Monday, Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring said US-based company Amdocs would be excluded from bidding to supply a billing service to PT Telkom Selular Indonesia because it had an Israeli shareholder. Tifatul, a member of the conservative Islamic Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), said excluding Amdocs was justified because Israel did not have diplomatic relations with Indonesia - something he claimed was required by a ministerial regulation on telecommunications. Amdocs is headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri and has branches around the world. It has an office in Tel Aviv, but the Jakarta Globe could not confirm whether it had Israeli shareholders. Asked about Tifatul's statement, Gatot said there was nothing in the telecommunications regulations that specifically prohibited a partnership with a business from a country that did not have formal relations with Indonesia. However, he said Tifatul was probably referring to a 1999 regulation on telecommunications that stated that the public interest must be protected. "It is not directly stated in the regulation, but we interpret this to mean that the banning comes from an effort to protect the people's interests," Gatot said. "It's not because the minister is from the PKS," he added. Meanwhile, Maswidyantoro, an analyst from consumer organization Masyarakat Telematika Indonesia (Mastel), called Tifatul's use of ministerial regulations "irrelevant" and unwise. According to Maswidyantoro, Israeli technology was commonly used in the information-technology sector because the country was a major producer of high-tech components. Currently, 90 percent of the telecommunication parts used in the country were imported, he said. Many of these could be from Israeli manufacturers or come from companies with Israeli shareholders, he said. "How about products from Taiwan? Many of our telecommunications products are from Taiwan - another country that does not have diplomatic relations with Indonesia," Maswidyantoro said. Eddie Kurnia, a spokesman from PT Telkomunikasi Indonesia, the parent company of Telkom Selular, a provider of cellphone services, said the company was still investigating the issue. However, Telkom would support the government regulations, he said. ++++ http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447431526&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter TA University, Saudi researchers collaborate on computer 'bot' problem Dec. 13, 2009 Judy Siegel-Itzkovich , THE JERUSALEM POST Many Internet users are clueless about the collection of distorted letters and numbers they must often identify and key in to get entrance to various Web sites. These are called Capthcha - meant to be a barrier that prevents computer automatons ("bots") from getting into sites and voting, opening financial accounts or otherwise influencing content. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University - part of an international team - have developed a "synthesis technique" to overcome the "bots" by generating images of animated 3-D objects that are detectable by humans but difficult for an automatic algorithm to recognize. The team was headed by TAU computer studies department Prof. Daniel Cohen-Or and - unusually - included colleagues at King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia, The University of Delhi in India and researchers in Taiwan. Their findings are being presented this week at the Second ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference being held in Yokohama, Japan, where the world's leading experts on computer graphics, interactive techniques, art and animation are in attendance. Just a month ago, the anti-virus company AVG reported that computer hackers managed to break conventional Capthcha defenses as an exercise in an academic course. One of the main reasons is that digits and letters comprise a finite source of data, and even if they are twisted, algorithms could still be used to deal with the letters and numbers even after they were made to look malformed. Internet accounts created by the hackers were used to spread junk mail and links to Web sites with viruses, Trojan horse computer programs and other hostile codes. The TAU development is based on emergence, the unique human ability to aggregate information from seemingly meaningless pieces and perceive a whole that is meaningful. While single images look like nothing significant, the processed image seems very clear to the human mind. This special skill of humans can constitute an effective scheme to tell humans and machines apart, says Cohen-Or, who notes that a drawing consisting of squiggles can turn into a movie-like image of motion when there are slight variations from one to the next and they are flipped rapidly. The new technique allows the generation of an infinite number of images with 3-D "emergence figures," with the team's algorithm designed so that it seems as if the synthesized images divulge little useful information or cues to assist any segmentation or recognition procedure. Computer vision algorithms are incapable of effectively processing such images, he notes. "However, when a human observer is presented with an emergence image, synthesized using an object [one] is familiar with, the figure emerges when observed as a whole. We can control the difficulty level of perceiving the emergence effect through a limited set of parameters." Cohen-Or was assisted by Lior Wolf and Hezy Yeshurun of TAU, Prof. Niloy Mitra of the Technological Institute of Delhi in India, researchers at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and two Taiwanese researchers. Cohen-Or says greater development is needed before the new technique can be of practical use. 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