Don't forget to check out http://www.auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the archive of the last 3 months of the news. And see my website - http://GoldsteinReport.com/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** Bill Clinton and the ICANN Silicon Valley Meeting http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/bill-clinton-and-the-icann-silicon-valley-meeting/ Temporary Drafting Group Work Session on New gTLD Base Registry Agreement Issues ? To Be Held 27 January 2011 http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/temporary-drafting-group-work-session-on-new-gtld-base-registry-agreement-issues-?-to-be-held-27-january-2011/ Confirmed: Bill Clinton to Address ICANN Meeting in SF http://www.mindsandmachines.com/2011/01/confirmed-bill-clinton-to-address-icann-meeting-in-sf/ Bill Clinton (Almost) Confirmed To Speak At ICANN San Francisco http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=13407 auDA Launches New You Tube Channel http://blog.auda.org.au/2011/01/12/auda-launches-new-you-tube-channel/ Asean Internet domain by 2015? http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/1/14/nation/20110114144813&sec=nation Cyber attacks could create "perfect storm" - OECD http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70G00K20110117 uk: Leading computer expert warns of cyber attack on National Grid http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/leading-computer-expert-warns-of-cyber-attack-on-national-grid-2185155.html Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html Cybersquatting Groupon in Australia: International Trademarks are also important in Protecting Your Domain Name http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquatting_consum/2011/01/cybersquatting-groupon-in-australia-international-trademarks-are-also-important-in-protecting-your-domain-name-the-deal-of-t.html Number crunch: the struggle to upgrade the Internet from IPv4 to IPv6 http://futureoftheinternet.org/number-crunch-the-struggle-to-upgrade-the-internet-from-ipv4-to-ipv6 Happy 25th birthday, IETF http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011411-ietf.html Brisbane Floods Domain Up For Sale, Then Taken Down Following Backlash http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=13395 ********************** GOVERNANCE ********************** Call for Papers: Global Internet Governance: Research and Public Policy Challenges for the Next Decade Internet Governance is an emerging international field of scholarship, public interest advocacy, diplomacy, governmental and corporate policy-making, and philanthropic investment. The problem of how or whether we should control or regulate a communication medium that is decentralized and global is critically important to anyone who relies on the Internet to communicate, mobilize political action, run online businesses, purchase products and services or access critical information services. http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/1/14/4726798.html ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** ********************** - ICANN ********************** Bill Clinton and the ICANN Silicon Valley Meeting A few blogs and a swarm of tweets have announced that former President Bill Clinton will speak at ICANN?s Silicon Valley-San Francisco public meeting in March. Some are asking why ICANN hasn?t announced this yet. http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/bill-clinton-and-the-icann-silicon-valley-meeting/ Extension of Public Comment Period on the Draft 2011-2014 Strategic Plan In response to community request, ICANN is extending the Public Comment period on the Draft 2011-2014 Strategic Plan from 45 days to 60 days, which will now close on 25 January 2011, as community input is an important part of our Accountability and Transparency objectives. http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-13jan11-en.htm Temporary Drafting Group Work Session on New gTLD Base Registry Agreement Issues ? To Be Held 27 January 2011 The Temporary Drafting Group will hold a teleconference on 27 January 2011. The issues open for drafting/discussion during the call will include: http://blog.icann.org/2011/01/temporary-drafting-group-work-session-on-new-gtld-base-registry-agreement-issues-?-to-be-held-27-january-2011/ Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN Public Meeting 41 in Amman, Jordan ICANN is launching the 13th round of the Fellowship program applications for its 41st Public Meeting to be held Amman, Jordan on 19-24 June 2011. http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-14jan11-en.htm Confirmed: Bill Clinton to Address ICANN Meeting in SF A personal source close to Bill Clinton has confirmed to us that the former president will give the keynote speech ICANN meeting in San Francisco March 14-18. The meeting promises to produce far more electricity than sleepy NGO-lawyer-techie-academic-lobbyist ICANN attendees are used to. http://www.mindsandmachines.com/2011/01/confirmed-bill-clinton-to-address-icann-meeting-in-sf/ Bill Clinton (Almost) Confirmed To Speak At ICANN San Francisco ICANN has confirmed they are in negotiation with Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, to speak at what is now being called their Silicon Valley-San Francisco meeting in March. http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=13407 http://www.domainpulse.com/2011/01/14/bill-clinton-icann-san-francisco/ http://domainnews.com/en/bill-clinton-almost-confirmed-to-speak-at-icann-san-francisco.html ICANN Threatens to Shut Down 3 Domain Name Registrars Three domain registrars face termination if they don?t start escrowing whois information immediately. http://domainnamewire.com/2011/01/13/icann-threatens-to-shut-down-3-domain-name-registrars/ ********************** - ccTLD & gTLD NEWS ********************** auDA Launches New You Tube Channel To kick off 2011 here at auDA, we are pleased to announce the launch of our own YouTube channel, available at: www.youtube.com/audachannel. http://blog.auda.org.au/2011/01/12/auda-launches-new-you-tube-channel/ The pace of new domain registrations continues to keep up. There are already 750,000 of them Today at 3:20 a.m., the CZ.NIC association, administrator of the Czech top-level domain, recorded the 750,000th registration of the .CZ domain. The average monthly increase in the number of .CZ domains has thus remained around 10,000. The last 50,000 domains have been added since last August. According to CZ.NIC statistics, 87% of domain holders are men, and 52% are companies and legal entities. http://www.nic.cz/page/837/the-pace-of-new-domain-registrations-continues-to-keep-up.-there-are-already-750,000-of-them-/ Short and Fine - Last Nine Short Domains Finally Registered On 12 January, the last nine remaining short domains were entered in the DENIC domain register. http://www.denic.de/en/denic-in-dialogue/press-releases/press/3082.html The new law on domain names is adopted on first reading by the French National Assembly On Thursday 13 January, the French National Assembly adopted on first reading a bill to define the new legal framework for extensions corresponding to the national territory. http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/270/the-new-law-on-domain-names-is-adopted-on-first-reading-by-the-french-national-assembly Focus.it Newsletter: no paper: two million domains Italy is fi fth in Europe and ninth in the world of the Country Code Top Level Domains, in part thanks to the impact of the synchronous system http://www.nic.it/documenti/sala-stampa/NEWSLETTER18.pdf JPRS Published DNSSEC Practice Statement for the JP Zone (JP DPS) On January 14th, 2011, JPRS published "DNSSEC Practice Statement forthe JP Zone (JP DPS)". DPS (DNSSEC Practice Statement) is a document in which zone operator states ideas of security, policies, practices and procedures with regard to operational issues of DNSSEC. http://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/2011/110114.html .ORG, The Public Interest Registry Names Brian Cute as Chief Executive Officer .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) ? manager of the world?s third largest generic top-level domain ? today appointed Mr. Brian Cute as chief executive officer. With more than 12 years of experience in the Internet and communications industry, Mr. Cute will assume his leadership position on February 1, 2011. http://pir.org/news/pr/2010/briancuteceo Welcoming Brian Cute As The Next CEO of PIR Today, it?s my pleasure to announce that Mr. Brian Cute has been named CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry, effective February 1. It?s been an honor to serve as interim CEO over the past few months, and as I return to my position as Chairman of the Board, I ? as well as the rest of the PIR team ? look forward to working alongside Brian in cementing .ORG?s position as the most trusted domain http://pir.org/blog/2011/cute 2 million names in the .pl domain tu-tam.pl is the name of the domain number 2 million entered, on the night of January 4, 2011, in the national Internet domain register maintained by NASK. The number of .pl domain names has increased twofold over the past two years. Twenty years after its connection to the Internet, Poland ranks fifth in terms of the number of domains registered in Europe. http://www.nask.pl/newsID/id/701 Dot-Pro Price Reduction for Entrepreneurs - $9.99 for Dot-Pro Domain Names The recent uptick in entrepreneurship has prompted EnCirca to help new business owners in the New Year and offer Dot-Pro domain name registration for a reduced price of $9.99. http://www.encirca.com/html/press/DotPro_Price_Reduction_January_2011.pdf The beginning of the second level domains sunrise period SaudiNIC announces the beginning of the sunrise period of the second level domain names registration under (.sa) . we mean by Second level domains All Domain names composed of tow parts only, a label and the TLD (.sa) without the ( com, net, org, .. etc ) part . for example ( www.nic.sa ) http://blog.nic.net.sa/en/?p=41 ********************** - NEW TLDS ********************** Munich Conference on New Top-Level Domains ICANN recently set May 30, 2011 as the planned launch date for new top-level domain (nTLD) applications. In 2012, ICANN expects to add another 400 generic domain extensions to the current list, creating an unprecedented growth of new top-level domains. http://www.newdomains.org/node/4 Asean Internet domain by 2015? Asean could have its own Internet exchange and domain by 2015, boosting inter-Asean connectivity and lowering Internet costs. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/1/14/nation/20110114144813&sec=nation IP lawyers call for halt to new TLDs Some trademark interests are ratcheting up the rhetoric in opposition to ICANN?s new top-level domains program, with one company calling for it to be scrapped altogether. http://domainincite.com/ip-lawyers-call-for-halt-to-new-tlds/ Bulgaria to Make Another Push for '??' Cyrillic Web Domain Bulgaria will push ahead with its efforts to get a domain name in Cyrillic with a "??" suffix approved even though ICANN turned down the proposal last year. http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=124144 Network Solutions will sell .xxx domains Network Solutions has become the first big-name registrar to show that it will support the proposed .xxx top-level domain. http://domainincite.com/network-solutions-will-sell-xxx-domains/ Cute sees .org?s future in new TLDs The Public Interest Registry sees new top-level domains as an opportunity to strengthen the .org brand as well as add new TLDs to its stable, according to newly appointed CEO Brian Cute. http://domainincite.com/cute-sees-orgs-future-in-new-tlds/ ICANN's GAC Talks Are Critical For New gTLDs by Johnny Du With Bill Clinton's appearance at ICANN San Francisco now confirmed to be more than mere rumor, the March meeting will be a very big event indeed. On its home turf, and under the glare of possibly unprecedented global attention, ICANN may feel some pressure to make sure it has some noteworthy news to announce at the end of the week, after its Board of Directors meets. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110114_icann_gac_talks_are_critical_for_new_gtlds/ ********************** - DNS SECURITY ********************** Cyber attacks could create "perfect storm" - OECD Attacks on computer systems now have the potential to cause global catastrophe, but only in combination with another disaster, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report on Monday. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70G00K20110117 http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-54193520110117 uk: Leading computer expert warns of cyber attack on National Grid The national electricity grid is wide open to a devastating cyber attack that could wreak havoc on the economy and make the 2008 financial crisis seem puny by comparison, a leading computer industry guru has told The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/leading-computer-expert-warns-of-cyber-attack-on-national-grid-2185155.html 6 Critical Cybersecurity Challenges Facing the Electrical Grid As the country's electricity grid undergoes a transformation and moves toward a more intelligently networked, automated system, it faces an increasing amount cybersecurity issues. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011311-cybersecurity-challenges-electrical-grid.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/216708/.html What is Evgeny Morozov Trying to Prove? A review of "The Net Delusion" by Milton Mueller Evgeny Morozov?s new book ?The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom? deserves an extensive review here. It grapples with key questions of Internet governance in a highly original way. But it is also a frustrating book to try to make sense of. The tone of the work is urgent but the take-home message is murky, if not confused and contradictory. http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/1/13/4726219.html Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel?s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html ********************** - DOMAIN DISPUTES ********************** Cybersquatting Groupon in Australia: International Trademarks are also important in Protecting Your Domain Name The deal-of-the-day website known as Groupon files a trademark lawsuit against the two Australian brothers, Gabby and Hezi Leibovitch, who started the clone website called Scoopon in Australia. http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquatting_consum/2011/01/cybersquatting-groupon-in-australia-international-trademarks-are-also-important-in-protecting-your-domain-name-the-deal-of-t.html ********************** - IPv4/IPv6 ********************** Number crunch: the struggle to upgrade the Internet from IPv4 to IPv6 The Internet?s framers famously designed it without predicting much about how, or how much, it would be used. For example, the network?s capacity was conceived less in a count of precisely how many could participate at once ? the way traditional phone circuits worked ? and more in flexibly divisible bandwidth. As that bandwidth got saturated, it would degrade gracefully: data might move slower for everyone, but no one would get an ?all circuits are busy? message. In ways large and small, what animates Internet protocol design is a procrastination principle: if something can work well, it doesn?t have to be perfect, and not every problem or limit must be anticipated and preempted. Potential but still speculative flaws can be fixed later ? possibly somewhere other than inside the network. http://futureoftheinternet.org/number-crunch-the-struggle-to-upgrade-the-internet-from-ipv4-to-ipv6 Google, Facebook and Yahoo to test new net addresses A global trial of the net's new addressing system is being planned for 8 June. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12183098 Top websites to give IPv6 a test drive Facebook, Google and Yahoo are switching their websites to new internet addresses in a 24-hour bid to raise awareness of the critical shortage of capacity. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/13/facebook-google-yahoo-ipvs-internet-trial ********************** - MISCELLANEOUS ********************** Happy 25th birthday, IETF The Internet's leading standards body - the Internet Engineering Task Force - turns 25 on Jan. 16. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011411-ietf.html http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/216816/.html Netcraft January 2011 Web Server Survey In the January 2011 survey we received responses from 273,301,445 sites. nginx once again saw the largest increase in market share amongst the top web servers, gaining 0.88 percentage points or 3.59M hostnames. nginx now controls 7.50% of hostnames in the survey, though only 6.12% within the top 1 million sites. 2.4M of the additional nginx hostnames are hosted by Ecatel, which appears to have migrated from Apache to nginx this month. nginx's growth in active sites is more modest, adding 429k active sites, leaving nginx with a 8.23% share. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/01/12/january-2011-web-server-survey-4.html ********************** - DOMAINING & AFTERMARKET ********************** Brisbane Floods Domain Up For Sale, Then Taken Down Following Backlash Out of every disaster there are people who want to make money from domain names, some of them by nefarious means. Although it seems there was no intent to defraud, brisbanefloods.com.au was put up for auction within three days of being registered in seemingly a clear breach of the COM.AU registration policy. http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=13395 http://www.domainpulse.com/2011/01/13/brisbane-floods/ http://domainnews.com/en/brisbane-floods-domain-up-for-sale-then-taken-down-following-backlash.html Top 10 Reasons Your Domain Name Won?t Sell The vast majority of domain names currently offered for sale will not exchange hands this year. A massive amount of virtual real estate has been claimed on over 200 country code and generic top level domain extensions. The landscape is about to get much bigger with the introduction of new generic TLDs in late 2011. http://www.dotsauce.com/2011/01/10/top-10-reasons-your-domain-name-wont-sell/ ********************** REPORTS & RESEARCH PAPERS ********************** The Internet and its Opportunities for Cybercrime by Bert-Jaap Koops [Transnational Criminology Manual] Abstract: The Internet deserves special attention in criminology as well as criminal law and policy, because of several characteristics: it is global, instantaneous, intrinsically transborder, digital, and enables automated information processing. Because of these characteristics, the Internet provides special opportunities to commit cybercrimes: crimes in which computer networks are the target or a substantial tool. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1738223 ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** Wikipedia - an unplanned miracle by Clay Shirky Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. That statement is both ordinary and astonishing: it's a simple reflection of its enormous readership; and yet, by any traditional view about how the world works, Wikipedia shouldn't even exist, much less have succeeded so dramatically in the space of a single decade. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/14/wikipedia-unplanned-miracle-10-years Wikipleadia: The promise and perils of crowdsourcing content It may not stir up international outrage like its semi-namesake WikiLeaks, but Wikipedia sparks debate. The free online encyclopedia, which celebrates its tenth birthday on January 15th, is a symbol of unpaid collaboration and one of the most popular destinations on the internet, attracting some 400m visitors a month. It also faces serious charges of elitism. http://www.economist.com/node/17911276?story_id=17911276 In praise of Wikipedia: A celebration of an astonishing achievement, and a few worries The internet?s omniscience is one of its most useful and transformative features. Whether you want to look up an obscure word or phrase, get a quick briefing on an historical figure or dig into a little-known scientific or political concept, help is just a click away. In part this is because of the power and reach of Google?s search engine; but search is only as useful as the information it retrieves, and for many common queries the top match will be an entry in Wikipedia, an online, user-generated encyclopedia which celebrates its tenth birthday this week (see article). http://www.economist.com/node/17902943 Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia too complicated for many Wikipedia is too complicated for many people to modify despite billing itself as "the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit", its founder has said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12171977 107 trillion emails sent last year [AAP] A web monitoring service says internet users world-wide sent a total of 107 trillion emails last year and most of them were spam. http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/trillion-emails-sent-last-year/story-e6frfku0-1225988306258 2010 Online, by the Numbers Think your e-mail in-box is overflowing because you get dozens of e-mails a day? That?s nothing: Internet users collectively sent 107 trillion (yes, that?s with a ?t?) messages in 2010. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/2010-online-the-numbers/ 107 trillion emails sent last year [AFP] Internet users sent a total of 107 trillion emails last year, most of them spam, says a web monitoring service. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/107-trillion-emails-sent-last-year-pingdom-20110115-19rlu.html http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/107-trillion-emails-sent-last-year-pingdom-20110115-19rlu.html http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-technology/107-trillion-emails-sent-last-year-pingdom-20110115-19rlu.html Google, Microsoft Gain Market Share in Online Search as Yahoo Falls Behind Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. took a bigger share of the U.S. search-engine market last month, while Yahoo! Inc. lost ground, according to ComScore Inc. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-13/google-microsoft-added-internet-search-market-share-in-december.html ********************** SOCIAL NETWORKING ********************** us: 'Virtual rape': Man used Facebook to hack women's emails, send naked photos of them to entire address book [AP] In a cautionary tale for users of social networking sites, a California man has admitted using personal information he gleaned from Facebook to hack into women's email accounts, then send nude pictures of them to everyone in their address book. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/virtual-rape-man-used-facebook-to-hack-womens-emails-send-naked-photos-of-them-to-entire-address-book-20110117-19st4.html http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/virtual-rape-man-used-facebook-to-hack-womens-emails-send-naked-photos-of-them-to-entire-address-book-20110117-19st4.html Remove personal details from Facebook: expert A security expert is warning users of Facebook to remove their home address and mobile phone number from their profile as the website now gives third parties access to that information. http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/4549786/Remove-personal-details-from-Facebook-expert MySpace: Hot Social Networking Site Cools as Facebook Grows As Facebook was negotiating a half-billion-dollar investment from Goldman Sachs recently, MySpace, once the dominant Web site for social networking, was preparing to fire nearly half its staff. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/technology/internet/12myspace.html Facebook named as third party in post-christmas divorce rush [The Times] IT was first blamed for encouraging illicit encounters; now it is being cited as the superhighway to divorce. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/facebook-named-as-third-party-in-post-christmas-divorce-rush/story-e6frgakx-1225988238356 Facebook and the hoodie: is it time for Mark Zuckerberg to dress for respect? Should Mark Zuckerberg change his clothes? Having now seen countless pictures of the blue-eyed, hoodie-clad Facebook genius ever since Time made him the magazine?s man of the year in 2010, Goldman Sachs decided to kick off 2011 by valuing his company at $50bn and injecting it with lots of its money, and he himself announced he was getting ready for an international public offering of shares of the company in 2012, I can?t stop thinking about this. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dcd7c002-1f55-11e0-8c1c-00144feab49a.html Facebook legal battle: Why the two heads of the Winklevoss twins weren't better than one As the brothers who claim to have created Facebook return to court, John Naughton imagines what would have happened if they'd never met Mark Zuckerberg http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/16/facebook-zuckerberg-winklevoss-legal-battle ********************** NEW TECHNOLOGIES ********************** Kinect hackers take control of the action With 8 million controllers sold in its first two months, Microsoft's Kinect has proved wildly popular with gamers. But because the software that controls it is open-source, now hackers are putting the technology to ever-more inventive use http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/16/microsoft-kinect-software-hacks ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ eu: Survey highlights strengths and weaknesses of parental control programmes Results from a study released today by the European Commission show that while a healthy 84% of the software programs tested enable parents to block access to certain websites, they are less efficient at filtering so-called web 2.0 content such as social networking sites or blogs. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/32 EC Survey Finds Cracks In Online Filtering Tools The European Commission Thursday released the results of a survey it conducted that found while most software programs it tested do a good job of blocking kids from accessing certain websites, they are less effective at blocking access to social networking sites and blogs. http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2011/01/ec-survey-finds-cracks-in-onli.php Parental Control Programs Perform Poorly With Web 2.0 Sites [IDG] A survey by the European Commission has found that parental control programs aimed at keeping children safe online do not function well with Web 2.0 sites, smartphones or games consoles. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/216683/.html Parents neglecting risks of child surfing, says survey Parents in the EU are not keeping an eye on their children's online activities, according to a new survey which found that just a quarter of parents in the bloc keep track of cyber bullying and sexual grooming of their children on the Internet. http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/parents-neglecting-risks-child-surfing-survey-news-501229 uk: Protecting vulnerable children online: New online safety resources launched for young deaf people and those with special educational needs [news release] Vulnerable children are being taught how to stay safer online thanks to two new educational films and teaching resources, launched today by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre ? the UK?s national centre for child protection. http://www.ceop.police.uk/Media-Centre/Press-releases/2011/Protecting-vulnerable-children-online/ uk: Teachers' union warns of dangers of online 'abuse' More and more teachers are getting abused online - and it is parents, not just pupils doing the bullying. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12162063 uk: Facebook warnings for teachers over students 'whipping up abuse' online Social networking websites such as Facebook can ?whip up abuse? against teachers leaving a trial of ?immense harm?, head teachers have warned. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8252687/Facebook-warnings-for-teachers-over-students-whipping-up-abuse-online.html European ISPs fight network child-porn blocking Internet service providers are lobbying the European Parliament over child pornography website-blocking requirements that are due to be introduced to European law. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-management/2011/01/13/european-isps-fight-network-child-porn-blocking-40091423/ us: As child porn activity grows, efforts to trap offenders do too Just six years out of high school, Daniel James Boynton ruined his life for a perverted thrill: He downloaded pictures of children being molested. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/01/child-porn-activity-grows-efforts-trap-offenders-do-too ca: Bullies circulating nude photos takes toll on girls Picture this: A bunch of 15-year-olds are watching television in the basement, half tuned to a hockey game, half tuned to their cellphones. And then, to their surprise, the image of a nude girl, one of their classmates, appears on one of their phones. What do they do? They send it on. Thoughtless fun or malicious bullying? Legal or illegal? http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/922244--bullies-circulating-nude-photos-takes-toll-on-girls at: Data protection in social networks ? raising awareness for young people With more than 70 per cent of Austrian teenagers using social networks on a daily basis, privacy has become an issue. In order to raise awareness on how they can protect their personal data and gain privacy, the Austrian Awareness Centre has come forward with a number of related activities. http://www.saferinternet.org/web/guest/blog?p_p_id=homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet_action=detail&_homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet_articleId=138273 de: Klicksafe publishes new social networking guidance In May 2010, klicksafe published the first edition of three social network guidelines concerning safety and privacy settings on Facebook, StudiVZ and Wer-kennt-wen (who-knows-who)? Due to the lively interest in these publications, klicksafe has developed a fourth social network guideline concerning Sch?lerVZ which will be published shortly. http://www.saferinternet.org/web/guest/blog?p_p_id=homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet_action=detail&_homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet_articleId=138290 UNESCO Anticyberbullying Charter opens to other signatories The Anticyberbullying Charter is a project organised by the Junior Language School, Prague, Czech Republic and their twin school, Elena Farago School in Bucharest, Romania. http://www.saferinternet.org/web/guest/blog?p_p_id=homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet_action=detail&_homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet_articleId=138432 Download the best online safety resources from the Insafe network This second edition of Insafe's digipack contains a wide range of educational materials from across Europe. http://www.saferinternet.org/web/guest/blog?p_p_id=homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet_action=detail&_homeBlog_WAR_insafeportlet_articleId=138442 Cybermobbing: "Jugend testet Grenzen aus" Sieben Prozent der ?sterreichischen Sch?ler sind bereits Opfer von Cybermobbing-Attacken geworden. Das Problem nimmt an ?sterreichs Schulen stetig zu und reicht bis zu Morddrohungen per SMS gegen einzelne Mitsch?ler. Doch Experten warnen vor einer Panikmache. Die meisten F?lle seien "altersbedingte Grenzverletzungen", meint die Safer Internet-Trainerin Brigitta Loucky-Reisner gegen?ber der FUTUREZONE. http://www.futurezone.at/stories/1665316/ ********************** ONLINE TV & MUSIC ********************** Escaping the walled garden of connected TV One trend on display at last week's Consumer Electronics Show was the gradual expansion in online content available on connected TVs. Major set manufacturers continue to confine their sets to a walled garden of sites and apps that they have approved, but the turf is expanding and the barriers to entry are dropping. For example, manufacturers are making application development kits widely available, instead of just providing them to selected software companies. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/01/internet-tv-escaping-the-walled-garden-of-connected-tv.html Apple App Store near 10 billion downloads; $10,000 iTunes prize announced Apple's App Store has resulted in almost 10 billion downloads,some paid, some free -- and to whomever downloads the 10 billionth app will go a $10,000 iTunes gift card. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/01/apple-app-store-near-10-billion-downloads-10000-itunes-prize-announced.html ********************** MOBILE/WIRELESS ********************** The iPhone: It's chic, smart and cool, but is it about to lose its mojo? A growing number of tech experts are predicting that the iPhone is in danger of losing the "smart phone wars" to an upstart operating system from Google, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for one of the world's coolest hi-tech products. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/16/iphone-android-apple-mobile-phone Is Android Less Secure Than iPhone? Um, No. One can only hope that security software provider Trend Micro saw a nice sales boost after the proclamation of its chairman earlier this week that Android phones are more vulnerable to hacking than iPhones are. If it didn't, those blatantly self-serving statements were made for nothing. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/216733/.html Wireless, but Leashed Americans were liberated from AT&T last week. The news that Apple was ending its exclusive relationship with AT&T and would begin selling the iPhone 4 on Verizon?s network in the United States was not a surprise, but the excitement was palpable nonetheless. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/weekinreview/16brustein.html Google Android Shows Fastest Growth Among Smartphone Platforms in Germany comScore ... released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the German smartphone market during the three month average period ending November 2010. http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/1/Google_Android_Shows_Fastest_Growth_Among_Smartphone_Platforms_in_Germany Mongolia "saturated" with mobile phones Even Mongolia has got crowded for mobile phone companies. Thursday?s announcement that South Korea?s SK Telecom, has sold its 29.3 per cent stake in a Mongolian mobile carrier because of a ?saturated? market, proves the point. http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/01/13/deal-of-the-day-mongolia-saturated-with-mobile-phones/ RIM Gives India Access but Not to Secure Emails BlackBerry maker Research In Motion said it has given India the means to access its Messenger service and reiterated that no changes could be made to allow monitoring of secure corporate emails. http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-54127920110113 http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70C1OI20110113 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/01/13/technology/tech-us-blackberry-india.html ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** Cyber attacks could create "perfect storm" - OECD Attacks on computer systems now have the potential to cause global catastrophe, but only in combination with another disaster, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report on Monday. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70G00K20110117 http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-54193520110117 What is Evgeny Morozov Trying to Prove? A review of "The Net Delusion" by Milton Mueller Evgeny Morozov?s new book ?The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom? deserves an extensive review here. It grapples with key questions of Internet governance in a highly original way. But it is also a frustrating book to try to make sense of. The tone of the work is urgent but the take-home message is murky, if not confused and contradictory. http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/1/13/4726219.html Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel?s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html nl: Between 5-10 percent of all broadband users were part of a botnet Between 5 to 10 percent of all broadband subscribers in the Netherlands had their computers recruited into a botnet in 2009. For 2010, the numbers are likely to be higher. These infection rates are similar in most other Western countries, we report in a study that was released yesterday. http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/1/14/4726890.html uk: Leading computer expert warns of cyber attack on National Grid The national electricity grid is wide open to a devastating cyber attack that could wreak havoc on the economy and make the 2008 financial crisis seem puny by comparison, a leading computer industry guru has told The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/leading-computer-expert-warns-of-cyber-attack-on-national-grid-2185155.html 6 Critical Cybersecurity Challenges Facing the Electrical Grid As the country's electricity grid undergoes a transformation and moves toward a more intelligently networked, automated system, it faces an increasing amount cybersecurity issues. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011311-cybersecurity-challenges-electrical-grid.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/216708/.html Porn Worm Extorts Money From 2,500 Victims A fast-spreading Russian ransom worm that locks people out of their files has found at least 2,500 victims willing to pay up to get back control of their PCs, researchers have discovered. http://news.techworld.com/security/3256562/porn-worm-extorts-money-from-2500-victims/ http://www.pcworld.com/article/216663/.html Can Your Camera Phone Turn You Into a Pirate? My wife and I sat cross-legged on the floor of a local Barnes & Noble store recently, surrounded by several large piles of books. We were searching for interior design ideas for a new home that we are planning to buy. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/business/16ping.html nz: Scammers target online auction users with email Scammers preying on email users are now trying to solicit information from members of online auction site Trade Me. http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/4541561/Scammers-target-online-auction-users-with-email WIPO: Global Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Congress to Meet in Paris WIPO Director General Francis Gurry will be joined by his counterparts at INTERPOL, Mr. Ronald K. Noble, and the World Custom?s Organization (WCO), Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, as well as France?s Minister of Economy, Mrs. Christine Lagarde, at the opening of the Sixth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Paris on February 2, 2011 to address the question of building respect for intellectual property in a balanced and sustainable way. A number of ministers from around the world are expected to attend the Congress, in addition to other top government officials and corporate leaders. http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2011/article_0001.html ************************** PRIVACY ************************** Keeping Data Private: Why 'Web Erasers' Can't Work At the invitation of the German government, an IT professor has introduced software that allows people to set an expiration date for photos they post on Facebook or other sites. What it can't do, however, is prevent others from copying or stealing a person's personal data and posting it wherever they want on the Internet. http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,739187,00.html us: Stearns Plans to Introduce Privacy Bill Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., plans to pick up where he and former Rep.Rick Boucher, D-Va., left off in the last Congress in trying to craft an online privacy bill. http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2011/01/stearns-plans-to-introduce-pri.php ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** Tunisia riots: Tunisia, 'the enemy of the internet' The sunny, modern, welcoming country of Tunisia looks an unlikely bedfellow of North Korea, Burma and Turkmenistan. All, however, feature on Reporters without Borders' list of 12 "enemies of the internet" for their attempts to censor 21st century communication. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tunisia/8258462/Tunisia-riots-Tunisia-the-enemy-of-the-internet.html ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** Oppose ISP copyright liability in free-trade agreement - NZ professor The University of Auckland?s Professor Jane Kelsey, a noted commentator on free trade, is apprehensive that US negotiators at the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement (TPP) talks, backed by powerful entertainment-industry lobbies, will want to return to the question of internet service provider liability for customers? copyright breaches through downloading or uploading. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/oppose-isp-copyright-liability-in-free-trade-agreement-nz-professor Google to fight Spanish demands to remove 'libelous' links Google will this week challenge a Spanish demand to remove links to articles in newspapers, including El Pa?s, and official gazettes, in which the subjects of those articles have complained they are potentially defamatory. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/16/google-court-spain-privacy Google's $700 Million Purchase of ITA Software May Be Challenged by U.S. The U.S. Justice Department is preparing for a possible antitrust lawsuit to stop Google Inc.?s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software Inc., according to people familiar with the situation. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-13/google-s-purchase-of-ita-software-may-be-challenged-by-u-s-.html US may challenge Google's ITA deal - source U.S. regulators are putting together a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc's planned $700 million acquisition of airline ticketing software company ITA Software, sources knowledgeable about the deal said on Thursday. http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-54143920110113 http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70C4PS20110113 Europe Inquiry Focuses on Google Business Practice European antitrust investigators are asking advertisers whether Google suggested they increase spending with the company in return for improved visibility in its Web search results. The investigators are also examining whether Google stymied companies who had tried to move their business elsewhere. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/technology/14google.html EU?s 120 questions on Google If Googlers were in any doubt of the seriousness of the European Union?s investigation into the search engine?s business practices, the detailed questionnaire sent to advertising agencies this week should set them straight. http://blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/2011/01/eu-google/ ********************************* MISCELLANEOUS ********************************* Open-source software: Much conventional wisdom about programs written by volunteers is wrong - The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development. By Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman. MIT Press; 264 pages; $35 and ?25.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk In information technology there seems to be a revolution every other week. At least that is the impression one gets when following media coverage of the sector. Yet sometimes the hype is justified, in particular in the case of open- source software, free programs developed by loosely knit groups of developers. Within just 15 years they have completely changed the landscape of the software industry, turning it from a mostly capitalist economy into a mixed one. http://www.economist.com/node/17899970 ********************** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ********************** Big telcos brace for $50m repair bill The nation's major telecommunications companies are facing a bill in excess of $50 million and three months of build time. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/big-telcos-braced-for-50m-repair-bill/story-e6frg8zx-1225987412993 nz: Pacific Fibre attracts investment from PayPal founder [NZPA] Pacific Fibre -- the company set up to build a fibre optic cable between New Zealand, Australia and the United States -- has attracted investment from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. http://nbr.co.nz/article/pacific-fibre-attracts-investment-paypal-founder-nn-83665 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2011 --------- David Goldstein email: goldstein_david§yahoo.com.au web: http://davidgoldstein.tel/ http://goldsteinreport.com/ phone: +61 418 228 605 - mobile; +61 2 9665 5773 - office/home "Every time you use fossil fuels, you're adding to the problem. 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