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The Conference Today was more colorful: Something 110 people, 30 Euro entrance fee, a lot of paper.
Odem and the "CCC" created another organization called "David" to bringing their issue forward.
The around 30 "CCC" people gave an alternative set of proceedings to the attendance giving their view of the circumstances.
I was late and it seemed I missed the fighting. Jürgen Büssow, President of the district government of Düsseldorf which again is doing some FTC like control for the whole german state of Northrhine-Westfalia (NRW), seemed to have started with a 'freak-show' of 'disgusting' Internet-content and dissed the conference yesterday. Some of the attendance got really angry and as far as I understood the situation got out of hand.
When I arrived Paul Siegel, President of the main Jewish Organization in Germany was giving a speech which didn't gave any inspiration to me.
Next one was Wolfgang Cremer of the 'Bundesamt for Verfassungsschutz' (Think of it as a TLA) giving Details on their research on Nazi-Hate-pages. They surf every few weeks to all Nazi pages they know, register changes, check guestbooks and links to find new pages, etc. They registered around 1200 sites (they say 'pages' but I guess they mean 'sites') last year, then did a crackdown on germans putting up the pages and lobbying US Internet providers to take down pages. By doing so they managed to get a drop to 900 sites. This year they are back to 1300 sites.
 Following that Hans-Ernst Hanten former administration law judge and now working at something you might think of as the federal culture agency gave an interesting discussion of meta-subjects related to lawenforcement, filtering and cyberspace.
Next one was french judge Jean Jaques Gomez, who ordered Yahoo! to block french users from access to auctions of Nazi memorability. He gave his views on the Yahoo! ruling which sounded sensible to me. Yahoo was already doing customization for french users by showing french ads. So they proofed themselves that they can change content for certain countries. Yahoo! was also doing a screening of the auctions to get rid of people selling body parts. So he ordered them to use their abilities to conform to french law.
Peter Mankowski of the University of Hamburg gave a overview of the laws applicable.
After Lunch Stefan Klemp of the Simon Wiesenthal Center showed their collection of hate-pages, games etc. and explained how they get that stuff off the net by harassing hosting providers. It seemed he wandet everything 'indecent' of the Internet. For example he liked the page of the (legal!) german right wing party NPD taken off the net. When asked if blocking sited wouldn't keep him from doing his work, he more or less told us that he was smart enough to get around it and that the filters are only for stupid people. Seems the Simon Wiesenthal Center has nice statistics on hate pages, I should check this out.
Then there where two people from the catholic and from the protestant church telling stuff which didn't gave me further insights. As did the speech by Gernot Gehrke, from some company doing media competence consulting and seminars.
Oliver S[florin]me, President of the German Internet provider association eco pointed out, that we had discussions like that for a long time. He also reminded the audience that there is more than WWW on the Internet. He told us that the german Usenet-complaint Hotline ICTF received about 43700 complaints in two years but 42514 of them turned out irrelevant. I should try to get further details on this numbers.
more to follow ...
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On 21 Sep 2000, Jason Diekman, 20, was charged with cracking into university
(including Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell) and NASA computer systems, and
stealing hundreds of credit-card numbers to buy thousands of dollars of
clothing, stereo equipment, and computer hardware.
[Sources include an article by David Stout, *The New York Times*,
23 Sep 2000, National Edition A9, plus AP item 22 Sep 2000.] ["Peter G. Neumann" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 06]
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On 21 Sep 2000, Jonathan James (cOmrade), 16, pleaded guilty to two counts
of juvenile delinquency and was sentenced to six months detention for having
penetrated DoD and NASA computer systems, intercepting 3,300 e-mail messages
and stealing passwords. (He was 15 at the time. If he had been an adult,
he reportedly would have received a sentence of at least 10 years.)
[Sources include an article by David Stout, *The New York Times*,
23 Sep 2000, National Edition A9, plus AP item 22 Sep 2000.] ["Peter G. Neumann" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 06]
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On 20 Sep 2000, Jonathan Lebed, 15, settled a federal civil-fraud process,
agreeing to pay $272,826 for perpetuating bogus information on the Internet
that led to the stock fluctuations in Just Toys Inc. and The Havana Republic
and profiting therefrom.
[Sources include an article by David Stout, *The New York Times*,
23 Sep 2000, National Edition A9, plus AP item 22 Sep 2000.] ["Peter G. Neumann" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 06]
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Maximillian Dornseif, 2002.
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