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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2004
Opposition to Electronic Surveillance
FTC Requires Labels for Porn Spam
Maryland Passes Tough Antispam Law
Hackers Compromise Academic Computing Systems
OPPOSITION TO ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
EDUCAUSE and 12 other higher education and library associations have
filed comments calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
to reject expanding electronic surveillance requirements to include
Internet service providers. The Drug Enforcement Administration, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Justice Department have asked
the FCC to specify that the Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act (CALEA) applies to the Internet. CALEA requires public
telecommunications providers to build systems that allow federal
investigators to wiretap phone conversations. The comments filed by the
13 associations argue that extending CALEA requirements to the Internet
would require costly reengineering of their systems, inhibit
innovation, and raise serious privacy concerns.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 April 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/04/2004041402n.htm
FTC REQUIRES LABELS FOR PORN SPAM
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said this week that starting May 19,
adult-oriented spam must include the words "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" in the
subject line and that the messages themselves must not include graphic
content. The new rule is part of a federal antispam law that requires
the FTC to investigate ways to identify spam e-mail that is not
appropriate for children to see. The new rule should make filtering
such messages simple, allowing parents to prevent children from seeing
adult content. Pornographic e-mail can include links to graphic Web
sites, but the e-mails themselves must not contain graphic images. An
FTC study found that nearly 20 percent of pornographic spam includes
such graphic images. The new federal rule will override several state
laws that require "ADV: ADULT" in the subject line of pornographic
spam.
Reuters, 14 April 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=4826838
MARYLAND PASSES TOUGH ANTISPAM LAW
The Maryland legislature has passed an antispam bill that targets
high-volume spammers and imposes fines and prison sentences on those
found guilty. The recently enacted federal CAN-SPAM Act overrides most
state laws that address spam, but, according to Maryland State Delegate
Neil Quinter, the federal law leaves room for states to enact specific
legislation regarding "falsity or deception in spam e-mails." The
Maryland law was carefully written to fit that space left in the
federal law. Under the provisions of the bill, which has been sent to
the governor's office for his signature, convicted spammers could face
prison terms of three to 10 years, fines as high as $25,000, and
forfeiture of property. Maryland's law empowers city or county
officials to pursue prosecutions against spammers; the CAN-SPAM Act
only allows attorneys general to do so.
Internet News, 13 April 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3339971
HACKERS COMPROMISE ACADEMIC COMPUTING SYSTEMS
The Information Technology Systems and Services (ITSS) group at
Stanford University released an advisory indicating that hackers gained
access to computers at Stanford and "a large number of research
institutions and high-performance computing centers." The attacks have
been on Linux and Solaris machines. According to the advisory, "the
attacker appears to be deliberately targeting machines in academic and
high-performance computing environments, rather than attacking systems
indiscriminately." The advisory mentions one attack on April 3 but does
not indicate otherwise when the breaches took place. The ITSS stated
that the hackers used password-cracking tools to gain access and then
exploited security flaws in the software.
CNET, 13 April 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5191024.html
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