[ECP] Educational CyberPlayground NetHappenings Headlines and Resouces

Greetings Everyone,

happy reading for today!

best,
<Karen>

1)
Misogyny grows wild on the Web
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/31/sierra/
In the Nick Denton/Chris Locke vs. Kathy Sierra/Robert Scoble smackdown, I am firmly on the side of Sierra and Scoble. As a woman writer friend e-mailed me after reading Denton's fierce defense of Locke on Valleywag: "There is nothing like hysterical masculine self-pity posing as righteous indignation." I couldn't put it any better than that. Man up, fellas! 

2)
Changing attitudes: "Don't worry your pretty little head over it."
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/cwomen.html

3)
New Program Urges Students to Resist the RIAA
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/copyrightleft2.html
"The Digital Freedom Campaign believes that the best way to reach college students about the appropriat e uses of technology is to engage them, not to prosecute them,"."While illegal music downloads continue to be a serious challenge on college campuses, students are the catalysts of the digital age and are far more likely to respect the rights of artists if their digital freedoms are respected as well." 

4)
Rate My Professors
http://www.digitalfreedom.org/PressRelease.action?id=38
Find the college then the prof -> see the rating.

5)
Inspector Lists Computers With Atomic Secrets as Missing
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/washington/01missing.html
WASHINGTON, March 30 - The office in charge of protecting American
technical secrets about nuclear weapons from foreign spies is missing 20
desktop computers, at least 14 of which have been used for classified
information, the Energy Department inspector general reported on Friday.
This is the 13th time in a little over four years that an audit has
found that the department, whose national laboratories and factories do
most of the work in designing and building nuclear warheads, has lost
control over computers used in working on the bombs.

6)
Tarpits deter impatient spammers
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/040207-mit-spam-tarpits.html
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Researchers have learned that spammers are impatient
people, and theyre figuring out ways to exploit that characteristic to
block unwanted e-mail.
Two presenters at the MIT Spam Conference 2007 held here last Friday are
examining ways to significantly cut back on the amount of spam received
by tricking spammers into believing theyve been caught in an SMTP tarpit
and forcing them to disconnect before the unwanted messages have been
sent.

7)
Department of Homeland and Security wants master key for DNS
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/87655
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was created after
the attacks on September 11, 2001 as a kind of overriding department,
wants to have the key to sign the DNS root zone solidly in the hands of
the US government. This ultimate master key would then allow authorities
to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the
servers that represent the name system's root zone on the Internet. The
"key-signing key" signs the zone key, which is held by VeriSign. At the
meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) in Lisbon, Bernard Turcotte, president of the Canadian Internet
Registration Authority (CIRA) drew everyone's attention to this proposal
as a representative of the national top-level domain registries
(ccTLDs).

8)
Anyone can teach/run a class online for free
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/tools.html
with no advertisements using a non-profit organization
of Internet professionals who give their time to provide
services to the Internet community.

9)
Jargon: The language of GWOT
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/jargon.html
Embrace the Suck?: A Pocket Guide to Milspeak.

10)
TJX spokeswoman Sherry Lang declined to elaborate on the document,
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/03/31/tjx_breach_shows_that_encryption_can_be_foiled/
but outside security consultants say the language hints that a
company employee or contractor, or someone known by an employee or
contractor, was able to gain access to TJX's computers and obtain the
formula needed to unscramble data.

11)
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin wants
http://www.askcalea.net/redirect/?id=Newsletter:070402_03
wireless Internet access to be included in efforts to ensure universal
communications for all U.S. residents.

12)
FCC adopts new phone privacy rules
http://www.theolympian.com/131/story/75518.html
The rules were created to safeguard against pretexting, the practice of
impersonating a phone customer to gain access to his phone records.

13)
Senator Clinton Introduces Rural Broadband Bill
http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=271662

14)
SonyBMG deletes demo CDs, logs onto blogs
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL3026604320070330?feedType=RSS
Thinking of sending your band's demo CD to a music label in
the hope of landing a deal? Don't try SonyBMG, who want to
sample your music online instead. SonyBMG, the world's
second-biggest music company, said that from Monday it
would no longer accept hard copy formats.
Instead, budding musicians will be asked to sign up to a record label
Web site such as www.columbiademos.co.uk or www.rcademos.co.uk
to blog their music, photos and videos.

SonyBMG is a Cracker
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/drm.html
Boycott SONY & settles Root Kit Scandal  case.

Why File Sharing Is Not Theft
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclaw4.html

Music labels are bringing bloggers
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0330/p11s03-almp.html
who have a reputation for posting legal and illegal MP3 tracks
into the fold by purposefully leaking albums ahead of the release.
The system that has developed strongly resembles the current
rapport between radio stations and record labels ? the blogs,
like radio stations, receive early access to promotional singles

15)
My friend Joel Bernstein <Karen>
involved with Neil Young Live At Massey Hall 1971
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Ringleaders/joel.html

16)
Apple's iPhone will be released on June 11
http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-6171953.html?tag=nefd.top

17)
TSA missed 90% of bombs at Denver airport
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/30/tsa_missed_90_of_bom.html
Undercover agents were able to slip bombs and IEDs past the Transport
Security Agency checkpoint at Denver airport 90 percent of the time.
Last time I was in Denver, the eagle-eyed agent was able to spot and
confiscate my toothpaste, and of course, my suitcase arrived damaged,
contents filthy, having been pawed at by a TSA goon and then
improperly closed. These eagle-eyed guardians of freedom are so
obsessed with making sure that we're all sharing our foot-funguses
with each other on while our shoes go through the X-ray machine that
they can't actually find actual bombs.

18)
Librarians Tackle Information Illiteracy
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/02/libraries
But while the problems of ?information literacy? and the
limitations of otherwise tech-savvy students? abilities to
differentiate between legitimate and unacceptable sources
are well known, there is yet to be a unified, coherent
approach to combating them.

Should a parent ask a librarian do the research for the kid?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/searcheffective.html

19)
Children in India cheaper than buffaloes
http://tinyurl.com/2u5vzu
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Traffickers are selling children in India for
amounts that are often lower than the cost of animals and most
of them end up working as laborers or commercial sex workers.
Bhuvan Ribhu of Bachpan Bachao Andolan
Save the Childhood Movement),
http://www.scf.org.in/aboutus.php3
"While buffaloes may cost up to 15,000 rupees ($350),
children are sold at prices between 500 and 2,000 rupees ($12 and $45),"
For instance, two brothers in Bihar were recently given away
for 250 rupees ($6) each by their parents and trafficked out of the
state in connivance with police, Ribhu said. The group estimates that
children account for 40 to 50 percent of all victims of human trafficking.
They are sold to work as domestic laborers, or in the carpet industry,
on farms or as commercial sex workers.

20)
The case of the Cherokee freedmen
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414763
Identity politics in Indian country
Who is a Cherokee Indian and who is not.

21)
I'm no terrorist, says UK hacker
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6523549.stm
A Briton has denied being a "cyber terrorist" as he faces extradition to
the US, accused of what was called the "biggest military computer hack
ever". Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon, of north London, is accused of gaining
access to 97 US military and Nasa computers.

22)
ABN pays out over hacked accounts
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/04/03/222857/abn-pays-out-over-hacked-accounts.htm
ABN Amro has compensated four customers who lost cash when hackers stole
money from their accounts using a malware phishing technique.
The hackers overcame the banks two-factor authentication system by first
sending the victims an e-mail containing an attachment.
The banks customers opened the attachment which installed malware on
their machines. This malware changed the customers browser settings, so
when they tried to visit the ABN Amro site they were instead directed to
a spoof copy of the site.

23)
Blogger posts Vista SP1 fixes
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/03/HNsp1fix_1.html
The owner of a blog dedicated to software patches has posted online more
than 100 fixes he said are expected to be included in Windows Vista
Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft Corp.'s first major update to its latest
Windows client OS.
Ethan Allen, owner of the The Hotfix blog and Web site, has posted a
preview and information center for SP1, a site that includes many of the
software patches Microsoft will include in the package, he said.

24)
RadioShack Admits To Dumping Customer Records
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198702184
The Texas attorney general has charged RadioShack with violating
identity protection laws by dumping thousands of customer records in a
garbage bin behind a Texas store.

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