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Sunday, September 15, 2002

UK Privacy

UK Privacy David Blunkett, Home Secretary, has written a piece for the Guardian defending the UK's new laws enacted after 9/11 and extending the power of the government to... [Ad Usum Delphinorum]
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MS 0 - Pirates 1 : Pirates crack Windows XP Service Pack 1

Microsoft's efforts at making life difficult for pirates of its flagship Windows XP product have been thwarted yet again. With the release of XP Service Pack 1 three days ago, the Redmond giant warned people using pirated versions of the operating system that they would not be able to install the upgrade.

But the pirates were one step ahead yet again, releasing a tool that could beat the protection system even before the service pack was available for download. [Security News Portal]
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Taiwan Govt asks hackers to try to break into its networks.

Taiwan-based computer users are being encouraged to try and break into government Web sites. Those who are successful will receive rewards.

"In a bid to strengthen the security of government Web sites and to find any loopholes in the government computer network, we're inviting Taiwan-based computer users to participate in a simulation drill scheduled for the beginning of next year," said Minister Without Portfolio Tsay Ching-yen ([cedilla]22MÇó), who is also the deputy convener of the Cabinet's Science and Technology Advisory Group. [Security News Portal]
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Hackers invade police computers to prove a point.

To get an idea of what terrorists could do to hamper an emergency response, ABCNEWS asked Innerwall, a Colorado Springs-based computer security consulting firm, to hack into a police department ... [Security News Portal]
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Hacker commits suicide hours before sentencing.

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) - A former Henderson resident committed suicide hours before he was to be sentenced in a computer hacking case.

The Nevada Highway Patrol said Sandusky, of Georgetown, Texas, e-mailed a suicide note to his ex-wife. The contents of the note were not made public. In April, Sandusky pleaded guilty to hacking into the computer network of Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging in Las Vegas on three dates last year. Sandusky faced a possible sentence of five years in prison, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Parrella said probation officials had been planning to recommend six months of home detention.

Considering that most hackers usually get off with a slap on the wrist... it is amazing that a hacker would simply end his life by jumping in front of a bus. I have to assume he had a few other 'problems or issues' that he could not cope with... [Security News Portal]
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NO - Child porn definition controversial

The organization Save the Children is angered by the lack of an age limit in the definition of child pornography in Norway. The Justice Department interprets the law to mean that sexual maturity defines child pornography. [Quick Links Computercrime Cybercrime]
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UK - Soham Case Officers Held Over Porn Offences

Two officers working on the inquiry into the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have been arrested on suspicion of pornography offences. They were arrested in connection with a worldwide FBI operation against internet pornography. The arrests are part of Operation Ore in which UK police have been targeting users of pay-per-view websites based in the United States and is part of the FBI's Operation Candyman. see also Chapmans' Liaison Officer Accused In Child Porn Inquiry (Ananova). A liaison officer who has been at the side of the family of murdered schoolgirl Jessica Chapman throughout their ordeal is one of two Cambridgeshire officers arrested over allegations involving indecent pictures of children. Family liaison officer Detective Constable Brian Stevens was arrested as part of an investigation into child pornography on the Internet. Last month the officer read a poem, written by a friend of the Chapmans, at the memorial service for Holly and Jessica in Ely Cathedral. [Quick Links Computercrime Cybercrime]
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UK - Four arrested in child porn raids

Detectives are questioning three men and a 16-year-old arrested over the making and distribution of indecent images of children via the internet. The four have been taken into custody as part of Operation Duke. Five arrested in internet child porn raids at dawn. (Croydon Guardian) [Quick Links Computercrime Cybercrime]
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Haftstrafen wegen Verbreitung von Kinderpornografie

Wegen der Verbreitung von Kinderpornografie im Internet hat das Landgericht Stuttgart zwei Männer zu Haftstrafen von drei und zweieinhalb Jahren verurteilt. Die beiden 49 und 51 Jahre alten Männer hatten sich nach Überzeugung des Gerichts kinderpornografisches Material aus dem Internet beschafft und selbst Bilder in einschlägigen Clubs verbreitet. Der Richter sagte in der Urteilsbegründung, Kindesmissbrauch zähle zum schlimmsten zwischenmenschlichen Verhalten. [Quick Links Computercrime Cybercrime]
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UK - Teenager arrested over child porn

A 16-year-old boy is one of five people who have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into child pornography downloaded and distributed from the Internet. Metropolitan Police officers seized a number of computers and made the arrests in London and the Home Counties under the Protection of Children Act 1978. [Quick Links Computercrime Cybercrime]
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Despite flaws, schools install Internet filters to receive federal money

Dale Alexander, the information technology director for Albuquerque, N.M., public schools, was not exactly a fan of filtering software for blocking pornography and other Web sites deemed inappropriate for children. But when Congress required it of schools that receive certain technology grants, Alexander had no trouble deciding whether to install the software -- up to $14.7 million was at stake.

"There was a lot of money on the table," Alexander said. And it outweighed any arguments that good adult supervision -- not a filtering product -- is the best solution for dealing with unsavory online content. [Moreover - moreover...]
20:19 # G!

Terror warning over laptops

Simple modifications to the circuitry in everyday electronic gadgets could bring down an airliner. An American security expert says passengers should be barred from carrying any electronic gadgets inside aircraft, such as laptops or CD players, until planes are able to detect a modified piece of equipment. [EurekAlert - Technology & Engineering]
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Apache/mod_ssl Worm

The CERT/CC has received reports of self-propagating malicious code which exploits a vulnerability (VU#102795) in OpenSSL. This malicious code has been referred to as Apache/mod_ssl worm, linux.slapper.worm and bugtraq.c worm. [CERT/CC]

A new worm that attacks Linux Web servers has compromised more than 3,500 machines, creating a rogue peer-to-peer network that has been used to attack other computers with a flood of data, security experts said Saturday. [...] "(Slapper) also includes a number of peer-to-peer capabilities, which allow it to communicate with other clients, and participate in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) network," stated the advisory. [news.com]
8:29 # G!

Etzioni: Reply to Spammers

Etzioni: Reply to Spammers. Oren Etzioni has an op-ed in today's New York Times about spam. His proposal:
Though spammers hope to lure us with their dubious propositions ("URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL"), they rely on those of us who don't want to participate to delete their messages quietly and go about our daily business. What would happen if recipients instead replied en masse to each message?
... Faced with hundreds of thousands of responses, the spammer would have to use substantial resources to store the responses, sift through them and identify those registering genuine interest.
Freedom To Tinker]

Edward Felten thinks this is a bad Idea. He is right. It's hard to get in contanct with spammers. And I don't have the time to do so for the roudabout 100 spam messages I get per day.
8:17 # G!

State wins case against deceptive spammer

Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Washington, the first state to take a legal stand against sending misleading, unwanted e-mail, won its first case yesterday, against a prolific spammer who flooded the state's computers with advertising several years ago.

A King County Superior Court judge declared a summary judgment against Jason Heckel, a Salem, Ore., businessman, finding that he violated the state's anti-spam law. The judge ruled that a civil trial, which was weeks away, wouldn't be needed because the state had proved its case.

The law, which does not ban all unsolicited commercial e-mail, makes it illegal to send an e-mail to people in Washington that contains deceptive subject lines, uses a bogus return address or uses a third party's domain name without permission.

[Privacy Digest]
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Hacking Trackback into Radio IIa

You might wonder, why there is still no code: Pythons regex engine is cordumping on some of the pages with the moderate complex regular expressions I use. Working on this.
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Operation Candyman: Caught in the Kid Porn Crusade

The United States of America v. Adam Vaughn He was a stand-up Marine, a beloved cop, and a local hero ÷ until the government branded him part of the largest kid porn ring in history. Inside Operation Candyman, the FBI's crusade to sweep the Net clean of child abuse. [Wired]
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Häuser Schauen

Gestern haben wir ein Haus in Darbinghausen Besichtigt. Von aussen hatten wir es schonmal gesehen und super gefunden. Von innen war es sehr dem Geschmack des Eigent[florin]mers angepa§t - der war schlecht. Und ung[florin]nstig aufgeteilt war es auch noch. Schade.
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