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Greetings,

Cherry Picked Headlines and Resources for this week.

happy reading,

<Karen>


1)
Nigeria: New Wire Tapping, Cyber Crimes Bill in Nigeria
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610190334.html
There is an important executive Bill before the Nigerian National
Assembly called the "Computer Security & Critical Information
Infrastructure Protection Bill" ("the Bill"). Because of the importance
of this Bill, we would consider in this paper, the highlights of the
provisions of the Bill, share the highlights of other similar
legislations in the United Kingdom, the United States of America,
Australia, South Africa, Canada and Switzerland in the greater
expectation that the laws in these other jurisdictions would further
assist the Nigerian National Assembly and the Nigerian people in having
a better Law on wire tapping, computer and cyber crimes, and
anti-terrorism.
Wire Tapping, Cyber Crimes & Anti-Terrorism Bill
The introductory part of the Bill describes its objectives to include "
secure computer systems and networks and protect critical information
infrastructure in Nigeria by prohibiting certain undesirable
computer-based activities ..". This Bill seeks to create legal liability
and responsibility for modern global crimes carried on over a computer
or computer systems, i.e. the internet.
Some of these crimes, which carry penalties of fines ranging from the
average sum of N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) to terms of
imprisonment ranging on the average from six months imprisonment,
include: -Hacking and unlawful access to a computer or a computer
network.Spamming - this is unsolicited mails - fraudulent electronic
mails, etc.Computer fraud, computer forgery, system
interference.Identity theft and impersonation on the
internet.Cyber-terrorism, cybersquarting, misuse of computer for
unlawful sexual purposes, etc.

2)
Security rivals shut out of Microsoft meeting
<http://news.com.com/Security+rivals+shut+out+of+Microsoft+meeting/2100-1009_3-6127559.html>
Update: An online Microsoft meeting to discuss Windows Vista changes
crashed shortly after it started Thursday, and Symantec and McAfee were
unable to reconnect.
Microsoft had scheduled the meeting with security companies to discuss
part of the changes it has promised to make to Windows Vista in response
to competitive concerns. But the conference, which used Microsoft's Live
Meeting technology, crashed about 15 minutes after it started, and both
Symantec and McAfee were unable to log back in.
"Microsoft hosted an online meeting this morning, but it never really
got started," said Siobhan MacDermott, a McAfee spokeswoman. "Despite
numerous attempts to reconnect, we were never able to get back into the
meeting. However, we were notified that the meeting had ended."

3)
New Insurance Coverage in Place for Managed Services
http://tinyurl.com/yxcvnt
The MSP Alliance and AIG announced a partnership Oct. 19 to provide
insurance for managed service providers that would extend to user
coverage for mishaps such as stolen laptops, data breaches and hackers.
The package provides comprehensive coverage for specific liabilities
that can't be mitigated through standard contracting procedures, such as
a data breach not due to malpractice, a lost lap top and an intrusion by
a hacker, said MSP Alliance officials and members.
The package would be similar to the bond and insurance possessed by home
contractors, obtained and maintained by the service provider, but
extended to the client as part of the contract, said Robert Scott, an
attorney and partner in the Dallas law firm of Scott & Scott.

4)
Trying to keep U.S. in dark
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/535091.html
Defence scientists plan to spend up to $4 million keeping secrets from
Uncle Sam.
The proposed three-year project, dubbed Secure Access Management for
Secret Operational Networks, is aimed at changing existing military
computer networks shared with the United States so some information can
only be accessed by Canadians.
"Contemporary and future Canadian Forces operations are conducted, and
will likely continue to be conducted, within a coalition," say
government documents released Tuesday.
"However, the Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence
currently do not have a capability to handle national information
effectively on their operational networks. This hampers their ability to
plan Canadian participation in coalitions, and their ability to
participate in those coalitions when decisions involving national
sovereignty must be made. The worlds major military powers view the
ability to protect national information as an important strategic
capability. Canada has chosen to collaborate with the U.S. on its
overall information protection needs but still requires the capability
to protect Canadian-eyes-only information."

5)
BEST EVIDENCE ENCYCLOPEDIA:
RESEARCH REVIEW WEBSITE LAUNCHED
Which educational programs have been successfully evaluated in valid
scientific research? The Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education at
Johns Hopkins University, funded by the U.S. Department of Education,
has created a free website called the Best Evidence Encyclopedia (The
BEE). The BEE contains educator-friendly summaries of research on
educational programs as well as links to the full-text scientific
reviews. The reviews, written by many qualified individuals and
organizations, focus on the programs educators should consider to
improve their students' achievement: math and reading programs,
comprehensive school reforms, technology applications, and more. At
this website you will find reliable, unbiased summaries and detailed
reports on high-quality evaluations of educational programs.
http://www.bestevidence.org/

6)
The Road to Literacy
Best resources for both reading games,
traditional Language Arts and interactive
Childrens Books Online that integrate
technology into the classroom.
100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/literature.asp
Literacy and National Reading Statistics
http://tinyurl.com/hhd2u

7)
TEXAS INFLATES GRADUATION RATES
THE DIMENSIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS
OF PHILADELPHIA'S DROPOUT CRISIS
Learn about the financial incentive to avoid the costs
associated with the exit exam test which is what
promotes pushing children out of school
and what is at the bottom of why they really drop out.
DROP OUTS or PUSHED OUT
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/newretention.html

8)
Newspaper In Education Insert
The National Historic Preservation Act 40th Anniversary
insert serves as a primer of information regarding the NHPA
and the national preservation structure it created, explaining
how and why so much of America's heritage resources have
been saved and put to productive contemporary use.
http://www.achp.gov/NIE/

8)
Chicago Voter Database Hacked
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2601085
Oct. 23, 2006 - As if there weren't enough concerns about the integrity
of the vote, a non-partisan civic organization today claimed it had
hacked into the voter database for the 1.35 million voters in the city
of Chicago.

Vote Smart - Voter Education
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/vote.html

9)
Honda is adding this social feature to its next-generation
GPS in-car navigation system, along with real-time weather reports
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4557&ref=y
The SNS [social-networking service] will allow drivers to enter
comments about a particular location or point of interest (POI).
The information will then be relayed to other club members,
and they can see your comments while approaching the
destination.

10)
Social-networking sites focused on India
http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/9515/
yaari.com, minglebox.com, reddiffconxions.com,
zhoom.com, humsubka.com, Fropper.com, Saffronart.com,
techtribes.com, Memsaab.com,  siliconindia.com.

11)
"Stop the Patent Process Madness":
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55831,00.html
A patent has recently issued which appears to
cover any and all forms of caching in a client/server system --
including the World Wide Web.The principal claim is for
"1. A method, including steps of: receiving a set of network objects
in response to a first request to a server from a client; and
maintaining said network objects in a cache memory in a cache engine,
said cache engine connected via a network to the server and the
client, said cache memory including mass storage; wherein said step
of maintaining includes steps of recording said network objects in
said cache memory and retrieving said network objects from said cache
memory, so as to substantially minimizes a time required for
retrieving said network objects from said mass storage".
In short, the patent is broad enough to cover virtually any form of
caching in a client/server situation.
http://tinyurl.com/ym7xq8

12)
'Click fraud' threatens foundation of Web ads
Google faces another lawsuit by businesses claiming overcharges
fraud vs. undetected fraud
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15366867/
Google  can sell pay for performance while really, internally, caring
about CPM.  They can say, "You can run pay for performance, but if
it doesn't perform, you not only don't get sales, we refuse your ad
in favour of some other ads that do better."


13)
New Merit Badge, Brought to you by the letters R, I, A and A
http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=394405
A Boy Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, etc., etc. He is also
respectful of copyrights.
Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit
patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and
music.
The patch shows a film reel, a music CD and the international
copyright symbol, a "C" enclosed in a circle.
The movie industry has developed the curriculum.
"Working with the Boy Scouts of Los Angeles, we have a real
opportunity to educate a new generation about how movies are made,
why they are valuable, and hopefully change attitudes about
intellectual property theft," Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion
Picture Association of America, said Friday.

This article doesn't seem to mention anything about teaching fair
use and/or the limits on the rights of the copyright holder.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/copyrightleft2.html

What need is met by the creation of this merit badge?
Why is there not a merit badge focused on, for example,
the skills of musicianship and how to survive and prosper
in the music business?  The latter would be far more relevant and constructive.
Music Deals Made that shift the business paradigm.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclawdeals.html
and
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/drm2.html

14)
European Journal of Open and Distance Learning: EURODL
http://www.eurodl.org/index.html
EURODL presents scholarly work and solid information about open,
distance and e-learning, education through telematics,
multimedia, on-line learning and co-operation.

15)
Flickr geotagged photos
http://flickr.com/map
Now you can explore photos by place.

16)
Nightline
http://www.nightline.ac.uk/
Nightline is a student welfare,
telephone helpline scheme run by students,
who care about their peers.



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