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Warchalking is theft, says Nokia. Warchalking, the technique of highlighting areas where wireless networks can be accessed freely, has been blasted as theft. [Help Net Security - News]
Wireless hitchhikers branded as thieves. Nokia has condemned as thieves anyone who uses chalk to mark where there are wireless internet connections. [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY]
Wireless LANs, Security, and Intrusions. ... The problem here is that wireless nets do not respect property lines, walls, or other physical boundaries. If you're running a wireless network, it is almost certainly open to people outside your site. This is a security risk for you -- drive-by spamming is only one of the ways an outsider could exploit the availability of your network. (And even if you turn on the "secure mode" of your wireless network, you're probably not safe against a sophisitcated adversary.)
It seems reasonable to adopt the ethical principle that you should not use somebody else's wireless net without permission. (And if you do use it, you should use it only to access the greater Internet, and not to use their internal servers.) ... [freedom to tinker]
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Via NWD ,
the Scranton Times Tribune hints that an unnamed US government "entity"
is forcing some ISPs to continue hosting radical Islamic web sites.
Contrast with the July story of a porn site operator who claimed to have
hijacked an al-Qaeda web site , only to have the FBI reject
his offer of using the site to gather intelligence.
BurstNET Technologies Inc., which services thousands of Internet sites,
hosts at least two inflammatory terrorist-related Web sites, one... [zem]
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Das Haus in Rheindorf, dass wir nehmen wollten ist leider schon weg. Da gab es auch kein DSL. Naja - weitersuchen.
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According to The Australian, the Australian Federal Court has ordered that a website remove material that casts doubt on whether the Holocaust occurred. The Adelaide Institute claims the Auschwitz concentration camp had no homicidal gas chambers and states that the number of Jews killed during World War II was exaggerated. I recently visited the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition and there is no doubt in my mind that the Holocaust did in fact occur. However, does that make it right to censor people who claim things that most people know to be untrue, even if it offends someone? [kuro5hin.org]
See also [heise online news]
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The Conference
Today was more colorful than the one yesterday: 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 Chaos Computer Club 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. J¨rgen B¨ssow, President of
the district government of D¨sseldorf 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 Süme, 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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WorldCom has been ordered to block its customers from accessing child
pornography web sites under a recent Pennsylvania law that holds ISPs responsible
for content accessed over their networks. It's not clear what form the
order takes - whether specific URLs or server addresses were
blacklisted, or whether it's a blanket order on any such content. [zem]
See also [heise online news] and [intern.de] and Düsseldorf blocking orders.
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Internet child pornography is one of the biggest areas of crime being tackled by a specialised police unit in Northern Ireland. The Computer Crime Unit has dealt with 95 reports of child pornography to date this year - a rise of 25 cases on last year's figures.
Last week, officers raided more than 30 homes in the province as part of a nationwide investigation into the downloading of indecent images of children.
[BBC News | TECHNOLOGY]
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From Anonymous Reader: Ananova has
an
article (link might go out of date after a couple of days) about
a man using the internet to arrange sex with an underage girl.
The paragraph that worries me is:
He has been charged with one count of child sexual abusive
activity and one of using a computer for the purpose of committing the
offence.
This would suggest that the crime is made more serious/harmful/criminal
simply because a computer was used - a worrying precedent. [Greplaw]
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Sanyo Electric Co and Fuji Photo Film Co announced Wednesday that they have closed parts of their web sites as a result of hacking.
Sanyo said it closed a section on its site Monday after an official found obscure English sentences and what appeared to be a hacker's name there.
.The page, which showed a new site for downloading melodies on mobile phones, was invaded by a hacker Saturday, Sanyo said.
Fuji Photo's site to accept orders for repairing digital cameras became inaccessible after being hacked into Monday and Tuesday, it said.
The company said it closed the site, which usually accepts some 30 orders per day, Tuesday [Japan Today: Crime]
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A federal judge in New York has sanctioned an author $50,000 for submitting false evidence in a copyright and trademark infringement suit against the publisher of the blockbuster "Harry Potter" children's books. The judge found that Nancy Stouffer knowingly submitted fraudulent documents to the court in an attempt to bolster claims that J.K. Rowling copied ideas from Stouffer's unsuccessful children's stories. [Law.com]
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TOKYO ÷ The National Police Agency (NPA) has developed a new automated system to bust child pornography on the Internet.
The system is based on an NPA host computer which "patrols" the Internet periodically, checking web sites for child pornography materials against an NPA database which collects images of child pornography that have been confiscated by police authorities across the nation.
On finding matching pornographic images, the NPA host computer would automatically alarm the police department in the prefecture where the offending Web site is registered.
[Japan Today: Crime]
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Die US-Beh[ring]rden haben einen erfolgreichen Schlag gegen Drogendealer und den Verkauf von so genannten Vergewaltigungsdrogen im Internet gef[florin]hrt. 115 Verd...chtigte in 84 St...dten wurden landesweit und in Kanada festgenommen, teilte Justizminister John Ashcroft am Donnerstag mit. Sie sollen unter anderem [florin]ber das Web die "Vergewaltigungsdroge" GHB verkauft haben.
[heise online news]
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In an unprecedented move, the Danish police has shut down at least six servers on the eDonkey2000 network on Monday (Heise has a German summary). eDonkey-servers are similar to Napster servers -- they do not host any actual files (and unlike Napster, eDonkey indexes much more than just music). Apparently, Danish police acted under pressure from the anti-piracy group, Antipiratgruppen. One of their representatives even accompanied the police raid on one eDonkey server operator's home. The operator of that server, Siffan, has contacted an attorney and has gained access to a friend's computer. He is blogging the events as they unfold, currently in Danish, but English translations will follow soon. According to people on the #SiffansPlace IRC channel, 11 more eDonkey client users were "busted", but only 2 persons were charged. More details as they emerge. [infoAnarchy]
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Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have gone on trial in China, charged with hacking into a cable television network and broadcasting pro-Falun Gong messages. [Help Net Security - News]
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Maximillian Dornseif, 2002.
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