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Tuesday, October 3, 2000 |
In its continuing effort to keep a lid on the impact of the Internet,
China's government has issued new regulations that hold companies
responsible for blocking illegal or subversive content, limit foreign
investment, and threaten to close down any unlicensed operations. Internet
content and service providers are directed to keep records of all content on
their Web sites and all the users who dial into the servers for 60 days, and
turn those records over to police on demand. "This creates a system that
would require such a scale of enforcement that it could potentially occupy
the whole efforts of ICPs," says a Beijing-based Internet consultant.
"Technology will respond. It will give rise to a whole new generation of
encryption techniques." (Reuters/*Los Angeles Times*, 3 Oct 2000,
http://www.latimes.com/business/200001003/t000093953.html; NewsScan Daily, 3
October 2000) ["NewsScan" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 08]
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An online gaming fan has been hit with a $6000 invoice from Earthlink and is
set to receive another, for $24,000 -- all for posting a movie of upcoming
Bungie X-box title Halo on his personal Web site. The movie is a copy of an
Nvidia advertisement that features Halo in action, running on the 3D
graphics company's hardware. The ad appeared in July 2000, and was shown at
MacWorld Expo in New York. US-based Halo fan 'Cannibal Harry' picked up the
ad, digitized it, and posted it on his site, in two versions: 45MB and 32MB.
The bills resulted from 62GB traffic in downloads during July, and 4500GB
during September, when his monthly data limit is 500MB. [Source: an article
by Tony Smith, http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13668.html] [Doneel Edelson
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The Department of Justice apparently attempted to hide the identity of the
Carnivore review team members at IITRI; however, the censored information
was extracted from a pdf file with a little Adobe hacking, and the
unexpurgated version appeared on cryptome.org. [Source:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39102,00.html]
[Error in domain (.org, not .com) corrected in archive copy. PGN] ["Peter G. Neumann" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 08]
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The Department of Justice apparently attempted to hide the identity of the
Carnivore review team members at IITRI; however, the censored information
was extracted from a pdf file with a little Adobe hacking, and the
unexpurgated version appeared on cryptome.org. [Source:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39102,00.html]
[Error in domain (.org, not .com) corrected in archive copy. PGN] ["Peter G. Neumann" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 08]
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Maximillian Dornseif, 2002.
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