Author: The Internet Patrol
Feds Set Sights on ISP Records, Vote to Protect Libraries and Book Stores from Patriot Act
The United States House of Representatives has voted to restrict the Patriot Act so that it cannot be used to pry into the library borrowing and book purchasing of U.S. citizens. You would think that this would be a no-brainer – nobody I know wants to live in a state…
Microsoft Admits to Censoring in China
Earlier this week Aunty reported to you that Microsoft was censoring Chinese users of its new Chinese-based web and blogging portal. Today Silicon.com is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed this in an email to Silicon.com, in which Microsoft admits that it does maintain a list of forbidden words and phrases,…
Napster and Sony Ericsson Partner to Bring Downloadable Music to Your Cell Phone
Flexible Digital Music Platform Designed For All Mobile Carriers, Handsets from Multiple Manufacturers and PC Interoperability LOS ANGELES, CA, and STOCKHOLM, Sweden – (June 15, 2005) – Napster, the biggest brand in digital music, and Ericsson, the world’s leading telecommunications supplier, announced today a global partnership to offer the first…
ISP Not Responsible for Policing Zombies Says Jury of ITs Peers
A mock trial, in which ISPs were sued for damage done by a zombie network to a few fictitious companies’ business and financial interests, found that a jury of IT professionals overwhelmingly held the opinion that the ISPs were not responsible for the damage flowing from their networks via the…
Pay for Your Parking Meter with Your Cell Phone, Thanks to PayMint!
How many times have you parked at a parking meter, only to find yourself on your hands and knees under the front seat of the car, frantically searching for enough change to fill the meter? Or worse, discovering that you had no change at all? Well, if you live in…
Newest AIM Opanki Worm says “LOL Look at Him”
The newest AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) worm, discovered today, causes targetted AIM users to receive a message, ostensibly from a buddy, which says “LOL, LOOK AT HIM”, and containing a link to a file called “picture.pif”. This worm is considered to be a variation of the Opanki worm. However, that…
June’s Security Updates for Windows Include IE, Outlook and Telnet
The second Tuesday of each month heralds Microsoft’s monthly Security Updates for Windows. This month’s batch includes security updates for Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Telnet, and HTML Help, to name a few. The update for Outlook Express affects OE primarily when it is used as a newsgroup reader. In that…
Free American Flags in Honor of Flag Day from AmericanFlag.com
You can get a free American Flag, in honour of Flag Day, from online flag retailer AmericanFlag.com! Here’s their announcement: HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y., June 13 /PRNewswire/ — AmericanFlags.com will offer its website visitors free American Flags all day on Tuesday, June 14th in honor of Flag Day. The U.S. flags…
Don’t Drink and Carry Nude Pictures of Yourself on your Cell Phone
Ah, a fresh entry in our “how to get yourself into trouble with your cell phone” archives, along with videoing yourself having sex and having it turn up in porn shops, and the guy denying a crime involving an AK47 just as his cell phone displayed a photo of him… holding the AK47, and, of course, the ubiquitous upskirting and downblousing,
ISP RoadRunner Must Give Up Identity of User Claimed to Slander Public Relations Society of America’s Bolton
A New York judge has ruled that Internet service provider RoadRunner must reveal the identity of a customer who sent email to the Public Relations Society of America’s board of directors, claiming that the Public Relations Society of America’s executive director, Catherine A. Bolton, was not fit for the position….
MSN Joins Google and Yahoo in Blocking Chinese Users from Accessing, Using Forbidden Terms and Content
There’s a hue and cry being raised about Microsoft’s new MSN portal in China not allowing Chinese users to access or share certain “forbidden” sites and ideas on the Internet. In particular, Chinese users of MSN’s blogging service, MSN Spaces, are forbidden from using certain terms in their blog entries,…
Ohio Parents Plan Lawsuit if Severe Cuts to Internet-based Public eSchools Remain
Did you know that the State of Ohio had something called “eSchools”, which are computer- or Internet-based public charter schools? Aunty didn’t know, until this came across her eDesk: COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 13 /PRNewswire/ — Despite a comprehensive legislative study that says public eSchool funding is reasonable and should not…
Beware Google Archiving Your Entire Google Search History
Google sure does a lot of nifty things with their search and archive capabilities! And one of those things is that it now archives your search history. Meaning that if you are logged in to Google, and perform a Google search, it remembers it for you. And which search results…
FTC Father’s Day Web Animation: “Don’t Let the Phishers Catch You”
It must be the week for cute web animations. First Consumer Union did their cute web animation lampooning drug ads, and now the Federal Trade Commission has released a web animation for Fathers’ Day, featuring a father fish teaching his little fishies how not to fall victim to the phishers….
Cute Web Animation Takes Aim at Vioxx, Bextra, Pharmaceutical Ads and Lax Drug Safety Laws
Now here’s a novel use of the web. Consumer Union is lobbying Congress to tighten drug safety laws, following the wave of people who have been injured or worse after taking such approved drugs as Vioxx and Bextra. As part of their effort, they are lampooning the rash of drug…
