Direct link to report: http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov/docs/natstrategyreport.pdf
Background: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/August/10-opa-887.html
Archive for 2010/08/19
National Strategy to Combat Child Exploitation, Prevention and Interdiction (August 2010)
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Stats / reportsBarclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement“Not just once, but numerous times over more than a decade, Barclays stripped vital information out of payment messages that would have alerted U.S. financial institutions about the true origins of the funds.”
Chipping Away at Censorship Firewalls with User-Generated Content
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Filtering, Tech EvolutionThis paper offers a possible next step in the censorship arms race: rather than relying on a single system or set of proxies to circumvent censorship firewalls, we explore whether the vast deployment of sites that host user-generated content can breach these firewalls. To explore this possibility, we have developed Collage, which allows users to exchange messages through hidden channels in sites that host user-generated content.
http://www.gtnoise.net/papers/2010/burnett:usenixsec2010.pdf
using company name Gray Noodle
Police crack down on Sim card fraud
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Organized CrimeGlobal criminal conspiracy involving stolen iPhones that is thought to have cost a mobile operator millions of pounds.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c1d67bac-aaef-11df-9e6b-00144feabdc0.html
India: Govt claims to have cracked BlackBerry code
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyWikiLeaks and Pentagon Disagree About Talks
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionBehold, the illustrious history of these here internets in convenient graphic timeline form.
http://gizmodo.com/5616108/the-history-of-the-internet-visualized
Audiogalaxy Makes Streaming Music from Your Desktop Dead Simple
Posted: 2010/08/19 in New Business Models, Tech EvolutionMessageLabs Blacklists Email from UK BT Business Broadband ISP Customers
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Blocking, Filtering100 percent free gives you 100 percent of the market?
Gmail search now reaches into Google Docs
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Google, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech Evolution5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously
Posted: 2010/08/19 in File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Tech EvolutionIntel snaps up McAfee in $7.68bn deal
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Network Security, Privacy / Data ProtectionThe decline in UK music industry revenues slowed to 0.8 per cent this year
Posted: 2010/08/19 in New Business Models, Stats / reportsTelecoms and media industry earnings fell by two per cent from 2008 to 2009, the study found.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/19/downloads_broadband_growth/
Direct link to report: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/753567/CMR_2010_FINAL.pdf
‘Impermissible conflict of interest’
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/18/google_adwords_house_ads_conflict_of_interest/
Being a behemoth: how Microsoft (and 9 others) make their billions
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsWe take a look at the biggest companies in world of technology to find out how they make their money.
RIAA wants to make sure all ISPs have the right to filter “unlawful” content
Posted: 2010/08/19 in FilteringWe Are a Nation of Time-Shifters
Posted: 2010/08/19 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionLike little squirrels
