Educational CyberPlayGround's NetHappenings Headlines and Resources 4/27/06

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Hi Everyone,

Here is today's list of just in time, need to know info
that I've culled from the tons of email I get, doing the
work so you don't have to.

Please invite your friends to subscribe if you think this
would be useful for them.

enjoy the readings & your weekend

be safe out there,

<Karen>

1)
Computer Wonder Women Kathleen Mauchly Antonelli (ne. McNulty),
died Thursday, April 20th 2006.
Kathleen was one of the 6 women programmers of the ENIAC.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/womenspecialedition.html
I was very sad to hear about this. ~ KE

As a resident of the Philadelphia area and a graduate of our college,
Kathleen came back to CHC several times to speak to our students about
her experiences. She was an inspiration to many. Please remember her
family and friends during this time. Obituary that was posted on philly.com:
http://www.legacy.com/philly/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=17529691


2)
Birth of the Borg
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14416616.htm
Gamers may soon control the action with their thoughts

3)
WILL GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, YAHOO AND THE
OTHERS REALLY FIGHT FOR NET  NEUTRALITY?
<http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=29>
[Comentary] Word from sources in Congress say that the major
companies arguing for network neutrality have failed so far to
demonstrate they are seriously committed to seeing legislation
passed. While the CEO?s from the Bell companies, we were told,
glad- handed members of Congress, leading online companies have been
largely MIA.  Imagine if on its home pages Google, Yahoo!, and
Microsoft?s MSN urged users to take action and asked them to save the
Internet. Congress would be overwhelmed with angry emails and
letters. The Bell/cable industry ?grass-tops? faux campaign would be
seen as a very minor, paid-for, outcry. But we wonder whether Google,
Microsoft and Yahoo! really want to see network neutrality
legislation? They must have serious misgivings, since they have done
such an incompetent and half-hearted lobbying effort so far.
Certainly they are thinking about the downsides of legislation. For
today?s call for network neutrality could (and should) lead to other
legislative safeguards, such as protecting privacy online. Microsoft,
Google, and Yahoo! fear that such privacy safeguards would threaten
their interactive advertising/data collection digital golden gooses.
Congress is selling out the Internet


A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality
http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html
Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These
activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives
giant corporations more control over the Internet.
Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to
gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net Neutrality
prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you
based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn't have to outbid
Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.
Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Many of
them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on the
verge of selling out to people like AT&T's CEO, who openly says, "The
internet can't be free."
The free and open Internet is under seige--can you sign this petition
letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network
Neutrality? Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet


3)
Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill
(Congress readies new bill to expand DMCA, not shrink it)
<http://news.com.com/Congress+readies+broad+new+digital+copyright+bill/2100-1028_3-6064016.html>
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies,
academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade
Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite. A proposed
copyright law seen by CNET News.com would expand the DMCA's
restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant
federal police more wiretapping and enforcement powers.
The draft legislation, created by the Bush administration and backed
by Rep. Lamar Smith, already enjoys the support of large copyright
holders such as the Recording Industry Association of America. Smith,
a Texas Republican, is the chairman of the U.S. House of
Representatives subcommittee that oversees intellectual property law.
The original text of the draft bill works fine on a Mac with Preview, but not Adobe
Acrobat):
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/house.dmca.copyright.bill.042406.pdf

a redlined version:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/house.dmca.copyright.redline.042506.pdf

A new JPEG version:
http://politechbot.com/docs/house-dmca-copyright-apr06/

Copy of the DOJ's mandatory web labeling bill
http://www.cdt.org/speech/20060420doj-proposal.pdf


4)
Government-Funded Startup Blasts Rootkits
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1951941,00.asp
A startup funded by the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency is ready to emerge from stealth mode with hardware-
and software-based technologies to fight the rapid spread of malicious
rootkits.

Digital Rights Management and Root Kits
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/drm.html

5)
Pioneering Wi-Fi City Sees Startup Woes
http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=57868307
More than a month after St. Cloud, Florica launched
what analysts say is the country's first free citywide Wi-Fi network,
folks in this 28,000-person Orlando suburb are still paying to use
their own Internet service providers as dead spots and weak signals
keep some residents offline and force engineers to retool the free
system.
St. Cloud officials are spending more than $2 million on a network
they see as a pioneering model for freeing local families, schools
and businesses from monthly Internet bills. It also promises to help
the city reduce cell-phone bills and let paramedics in an ambulance
talk by voice and video to hospital doctors. <snip>
[[... One resident complained that he could not gain
access but of course, he did not buy the recommended equipment to get
the signal in the house (?Lusardi didn?t shell out the money for a
signal-boosting device St. Cloud recommends for those having trouble
connecting - City Hall sells them for $170.?).]]

WIFI Hot Spot Finder
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Web_Sites.html
How to Save money Get your school District wified
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Crystal_Radio_kits_online!.html

6)
2006 Drusilla Dunjee Houston Award
Drusilla Dunjee Houston Memorial Scholarship Award is a $300
cash award, sponsored by the Black Classic Press and administered
by the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH).
It is open to black women graduate students of history.
Requirements for Applicants Include: Black women graduate students
currently pursuing an M.A. degree or Ph.D.  degree in history;
Short writing sample using primary sources; Resume;
Two letters of recommendation (at least one from the applicant's
major professor or advisor);   Copy of applicant's transcript.
Applicants are responsible for compiling the above documents and
submitting them in one complete packet. Applications must be
postmarked by:  August 1, 2006. Send applications to:
Sonya Ramsey, sonyaramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Ph.D. Assistant Professor, History Department,
Box 19529, 202 University Hall
University of Texas at Arlington,
Arlington, Texas 76019-0529

7)
RFP checklist: Security information management
http://www.gcn.com/print/25_8/40435-1.html
Looking to deploy a security information management solution? Before
sending out an RFP or RFI, experts say you should consider the
following:

8)
University of Texas Computer Breach Exposes 200,000 Records
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186700537
Nearly 200,000 records of alumni, faculty, staff, and current and
prospective students of the business school at the University of Texas
at Austin have been exposed in a data breach, school officials said
Sunday. It was the second at the university in three years.

Report Internet Fraud What To Do Right Now
Learn how to fix things in 30 days
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/REPORT_INTERNET_FRAUD.html

Quote from Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy: "Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word 'safe'
that I wasn't previously aware of."

FYI: A typical college keeps the following
information  stored in a centralized database on each of its students.
Names and Social Security,grades, disciplinary records,
course listings, high-school records,application information,
 letters of recommendation, Financial-aid information, including parents'
salaries and tax information, medical information from the institution's
health-care facility,  students' class schedule, use of wireless
Internet-access points and security swipe cards, which they
need every time they enter a dorm room or eat a meal, what kind of
car a student drives, license-plate number for parking passes.
They keep it past student graduation. Information
on alumni's locations and salaries are often kept for fund-raising purposes.
Hackers see colleges as a gold mine of private information. ~ KE


9)
Proposed AZ data-theft bill has critics
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/business/126149
If a hacker steals your bank card number in Arizona, there's no state
requirement that your bank or a merchant involved notify you.
That could change if Gov. Janet Napolitano signs a bill passed by the
Legislature last week.
Consumers Union, the non-profit group that publishes Consumer Reports
magazine, has criticized the proposed law as ineffective.
Arizona's law would allow companies to decide whether a
computer-security breach is serious enough to deserve a consumer
warning, said Gail Hillebrand, who heads Consumers Union's financial
privacy campaign.

They should be contacting security people!
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securitypeoplehtml.html

LexisNexis finds disclosure meant less pain in data theft
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/25/77752_HNinfosecdatatheft_1.html
After a high-profile security breach exposed personal data about
thousands of customers, LexisNexis found that being forthright was the
best approach, according to a company executive.
By being forthcoming with the public and victims the company survived
with minimal impact, said Leo Cronin, LexisNexis senior director for
information security, Tuesday at the Infosec Europe 2006 conference in
London. The security breach hit LexisNexis, which is owned by Reed
Elsevier PLC, early last year.

Reed Elsevier the world's biggest multinational medical publisher
owns databases organizes some of the world's largest arms exhibition.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search3.html



10)
Stolen laptops hand hackers keys to the kingdom
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/25/stolen_laptop_peril/
During a presentation at Infosec on Tuesday, penetration testing firm
SecureTest explained how DIY hardware devices or software available
for purchase from eBay might be used to reset or circumvent passwords
set in a laptop's BIOS. "If that fails you can always take the drive
out and fit it with a USB connector," explained SecureTest's Rob Pope.
A Linux tool called Backtrack, which can run from a CD loaded onto a
Windows PC, might then be used to get system keys and password hashes.
Windows stores the hashes of passwords derived from the LM algorithm
instead of directly storing passwords. But LM encryption is weak and
susceptible to brute force attack using Rainbow Crack or other tools.

11)
Microsoft Rocked by New IE Zero-Day Flaw Warning
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1953833,00.asp

12)
Holocaust Rememberence: Mountain Ridge Middle Schools Computer Class
http://www.kidsnetsoft.com/holocaust/holocaust_final.ppt

LEARN AND TEACH ABOUT THE CULTURE OF HATE,
IT'S HISTORY AND SOLUTIONS
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/hate.html

TEACH CHARACTER EDUCATION
What does it mean to be an educated person?
What to do about the Prom?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/character.html

Being Brave - what it means to have guts
Gene turn-off makes meek mice fearless
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8337
Deactivating a specific gene transforms meek mice
into daredevils, researchers have found. The team
believe the research might one day enable people
suffering from fear in the form of phobias or
anxiety disorders, for example ­ to be clinically treated.

Researchers Discover Gene That Controls Ability To Learn Fear
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021213062425.htm
Researchers have discovered the first genetic
component of a biochemical pathway in the brain
that governs the indelible imprinting of
fear-related experiences in memory.  The gene
identified by researchers at the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute at Columbia University encodes
a protein that inhibits the action of the
fear-learning circuitry in the brain.



13)
Student charged for death threat
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2006/04/14/news/community/fri02.txt
The senior says he sees the teacher as a friend, post was just
'something to do'
Sheriff's deputies arrested a 17-year-old Alsea high school student this
week after he posted a message on the Internet saying he planned to kill
his math teacher, the Benton County Sheriff's Office said.
The student, a senior at Alsea High School, posted an animated counter
on the social networking site MySpace.com

What Parents need to Know to keep kids safe
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/INTERNET_SAFTY_TIPS_FOR_CH.html>

Learn about Myspace and other social networking sites.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/socialnetwork.html


14)
Microsoft  launched free tool Windows Live Academic Search
http://academic.live.com/
which will index peer-reviewed subscription content from different publishers.
Experts generally welcomed the new product, which rivals Google Scholar,
but suggested it could pose problems for librarians and commercial vendors.

15)
India, China closing digital gap
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/04/26/digital.divide.reut/index.html
Within China and India, regions such as Shanghai and Bangalore
have almost the same level of Internet and mobile phone connections
as developed nations, said Peter Korsten, European director at
IBM's Institute for Business Value.

Digital Divide - we've still got one in the U.S.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/digitaldivide.html
RESOURCES DONATING COMPUTERS, OUTREACH, DIVERSITY, CAMPUS CRIME
ARTICLES - Who Owns a Telephone? and the Wireless alternatives
PEOPLE AND BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
URBAN EDUCATION
TOOLS FOR DEMOCRACY EDUCATION, CIVIL RIGHTS, CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
GENDER EQUITY SPECIAL EDITION
DIGITAL EQUITY RESOURCES, TOOLS, SITES, ISSUES


15)
The University of California at Berkeley is making audio and
video recordings of many course lectures available free to
anyone -- on campus or off -- through Apple Computer's popular
iTunes music store.

Podcasts - you can make them too.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/podcast.html

16)
Bugs put widely used DNS software at risk
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,110897,00.html
A number of flaws in the software that is used to administer the
Internet's Domain Name System have been discovered by researchers at
Finland's University of Oulu.
The vulnerabilities could be exploited to "cause a variety of
outcomes," including crashing the DNS server or possibly providing
attackers with a way to run unauthorized software, according to an
advisory, posted today by the U.K.'s National Infrastructure Security
Co-ordination Centre.

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