EDUPAGE> Edupage, February 10, 2003
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TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2003
European Commission Plans Cybersecurity Agency
Advisory Groups to Oversee TIA Program
Publishers Settle on Web Pop-up Ads
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Elsevier Science Revisits Deletion Policy
Sun Debuts New Business Products
RIAA Opposes Verizon's Stay
Electrical Outlets Offer Potential for Internet Access
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLANS CYBERSECURITY AGENCY
The European Commission proposed creating the European Network and
Information Security Agency to provide advice for the 15 EU members on
cybersecurity issues. The agency is scheduled to begin operating in
January 2004, at a site to be chosen by the governments of the 15
member states. The commission has set aside $26 million to fund the
agency over the next five years, with additional funds planned to
support the 10 new member states expected to join in 2004. The agency
will assist EU members' own cybercrime authorities, specifically
computer emergency response teams. The increased coordination among
member states is expected to benefit the EU as a whole in achieving a
high level of security for Internet use.
ITWorld, 10 February 2003
http://www.itworld.com/Sec/2199/030210eucybersecurity/
ADVISORY GROUPS TO OVERSEE TIA PROGRAM
The Pentagon formed an internal and an external committee to address
privacy concerns arising from the Total Information Awareness (TIA)
program in a move to prevent Congress from monitoring the program too
closely. Headed by John Poindexter, TIA aims to identify terrorists by
monitoring Internet usage and commercial and financial databases in the
U.S. and abroad. A Senate amendment last month banned deployment of the
program and curbed research for it. The Pentagon formed the advisory
panels to minimize the scope of the provision, now before a
House-Senate conference committee, by convincing Congress that the
committees will adequately address balancing security and privacy
concerns. Senator Ron Wyden, who sponsored the provision, noted that
the panels ?did not get an election certificate? and that ?Congress on
a bipartisan basis is going to continue to demand accountability,
oversight, and legally established safeguards.?
New York Times, 8 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/national/08PRIV.html
PUBLISHERS SETTLE ON WEB POP-UP ADS
Major newspaper publishers, including the New York Times Company,
Gannett, Dow Jones, and others have settled a lawsuit filed in June
with Gator Corporation over pop-up ads placed on their Web sites
without permission. Gator's software, eWallet, collects user password
and shipping information when customers visit different Web sites and
simultaneously displays pop-up ads on top of those sites. Plaintiffs
argued that this practice obscured their Web sites, while Gator
defended it as similar to instant messaging. The terms of the
settlement have not been disclosed.
Associated Press, 8 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/business/08GATO.html
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ELSEVIER SCIENCE REVISITS DELETION POLICY
Elsevier Science has adopted new procedures for managing journal
articles in its databases that it considers tainted by plagiarism,
fraud, or other scholarly misconduct. Critics had charged that the
publisher's earlier approach of removing articles from its databases
with little explanation could damage scholarly endeavors. The new plan
specifies rules by which Elsevier will delete or replace articles in
its ScienceDirect database or flag them as having problems. A
retraction notice explaining why an article has been retracted will
link to the original article. Articles that pose a legal threat will be
removed completely, leaving only the title and author's name with a
note to that effect. The publisher did not explain whether the new
policy will be applied to articles already removed from ScienceDirect.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 February 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003021002t.htm
SUN DEBUTS NEW BUSINESS PRODUCTS
Sun Microsystems announced its first major hardware and software
products in support of its N1 strategy. The products include Sun Fire
Blade Servers, which run Sun's Solaris operating system and Linux; N1
Provisioning Server 3.0 Blades Edition, which permits building and
configuring server farms; Sun StorEdge 3310 NAS, a storage system for
blade servers; Sun Fire V1280, a rack server; Sun StorEdge 3510 FC
Array; Sun Fire V880z visualization system; and new 1.2 GHz UltraSparc
III Cu processors for the Sun Fire family of products. Sun also
announced price cuts for its midrange and high-end Sun Fire Servers.
IDG, 10 February 2003
http://www.idg.net/ic_1148736_9705_1-5065.html
RIAA OPPOSES VERIZON'S STAY
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) objected to
Verizon's motion for a stay of the court order that demanded the
company provide the name of a subscriber who allegedly downloaded in
excess of 600 copyrighted music files. Verizon filed the stay to avoid
providing the user's name until its appeal of the court order is
resolved. A hearing on the stay request will be held later this week.
Internet News, 10 February 2003
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1581771
ELECTRICAL OUTLETS OFFER POTENTIAL FOR INTERNET ACCESS
St. Louis-based Meren Corp. and other utilities are testing a
technology that would provide high-speed Web access through power
lines, potentially making every electrical outlet a connection to the
Internet. Federal regulators support the concept as a means of
bolstering broadband access, among other benefits, and tout the
advantage of employing an existing infrastructure of power lines.
Broadband providers, meanwhile, point out that the idea has been around
for years without concrete results. Network interference, transformers,
and surge arrestors have hindered broadband delivery, although improved
technology over the past few years has reduced many of these problems.
Tests to date have been small, and none of them has demonstrated the
concept's technical and financial viability.
Nando Times, 9 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/757525p-5471954c.html
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