[Cybertel-Ann] 10.26.6 :: ADA & Websites :: America's Digital Decline :: Botnets and Zombies for Halloween :: Hack the Vote ::

Thu Oct 26 18:47:15 PDT 2006

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[W]hen the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will
close with it and no more be heard of. 
- Erasmus Wilson (1878) Professor at Oxford University

National Federation of the Blind files Target lawsuit,
USA Today, 10/26/2006 
Suit alleges that the giant retailer discriminates
against the visually impaired by violating state and
federal laws that protect ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-25-blind_x.htm?csp=34
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ada/ada.htm

The Truth Behind America's Digital Decline, GovTech,
10/26/2006 
With every passing month, the United States falls
further behind the global leaders in broadband
Internet access thanks to a combination of market and
policy failures. Our markets lack the competition to
bring lower prices, higher speeds, and universal
access.
http://www.govtech.net/digitalcommunities/story.php?id=101887
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Cable courting telecommuters, Telephony, 10/26/2006 
The cable industry is quietly courting the growing
number of telecommuters, offering much higher speeds
and a business-class service, according to industry
consultants at New Paradigm Resources Group.
http://telephonyonline.com/home/news/cable_telecommuters_102606/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/cable.htm

Mergers Fail to Deliver Consumer Promises, Broadband
Reports, 10/26/2006 
And AT&T/BellSouth will be no exception, says
professors
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/79122
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/merger.htm

Reporters Without Borders plans censorship
cyberdemonstration, CNET, 10/26/2006 
Paris-based human rights group Reporters Without
Borders is organizing a 24-hour online demonstration
to protest Internet censorship....
http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6129950.html?part=rss&tag=6129950&subj=news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Comcast phone subs up 381,000, Telephony, 10/26/2006 
Cable TV giant Comcast Corp reported net telephone
service subscriber additions of about 381,000 during
the third quarter, the company officials said on their
quarterly earnings call Thursday
http://telephonyonline.com/access/marketing/comcast_phone_subs_102606/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/voip.htm

U.S. control of Internet remains touchy, MSNBC,
10/26/2006 
An international dispute over U.S. control of the
Internet appears unlikely to be resolved even as state
envoys, regulators and technology experts convene next
week to discuss the network's future.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15430428/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ntia.htm

Europe Leads in Mobile Internet Access, emarketer,
10/26/2006 
Mobile Americans call on the Internet less.
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004233
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/

Amnesty calls for action on internet freedom,
Register, 10/26/2006 
Amnesty International is calling on the bloggers of
the world to unite to defend the freedoms of their
brother bloggers in countries such as China, Iran, and
Tunisia.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/26/amnesty_internet_campaign/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/

Netherlands parliament to order cable companies to
open networks, Muniwireless, 10/26/2006 
Please read this later article on the Dutch
parliament’s resolutions to separate network ownership
from services. The Netherlands is expected to order
cable companies to open up their networks to
competitors (just as the incumbent telecoms operators
in Europe are required to do): “If you open cable up
to competition, then the prices will fall and [...]
http://muniwireless.com/applications/1430
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/

Denmark Tells ISP It Must Block Allofmp3.com,
Techdirt, 10/26/2006 
The latest is that the IFPI has successfully convinced
a Danish court that Allofmp3 is a bad, bad thing and
needs to be banned. In order to ban it, the court has
ruled that ISP Tele2 must block access to the site --
which is easier said than done in an age of
encryption, VPNs and proxy servers.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20061026/161240.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

OECD Foresight Forum on Next Generation Networks,
OECD, 10/26/2006 
The OECD's Information, Computer and Communications
Policy Committee (ICCP) held a one-day international
Forum on "Next Generation Networks: Evolution and
Policy Considerations", which took place on Tuesday, 3
October 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. Forum agenda and
presentations are available on this page.
http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,2340,en_2649_34223_37392780_1_1_1_1,00.html?rssChId=34223
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/ngn.htm

Botnet Herder Charged With 2004 DoS Attack, Internet
Week, 10/26/2006 
Authorities have charged a Florida man with a 2004
denial-of-service assault that took offline several
major Web sites, including Apple, Google, Microsoft,
and Yahoo.
http://internetweek.cmp.com/193402238?cid=rssfeed_pl_inw
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm

Zombies Control Half of Windows PCs, Internet News,
10/26/2006 
Report 'throws antivirus people under the bus.'
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3640216
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/worms.htm

Why So Little Attention to Botnets?, Freedom to
Tinker, 10/26/2006 
Our collective battle against botnets is going badly,
according to Ryan Naraine’s recent article in eWeek.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1079
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/worms.htm

Third annual AstriCon brings corporate adoption of
Asterisk to light, Network World, 10/26/2006 
Some 700 users and enthusiasts of the Asterisk IP
telephony system gathered in Dallas this week for the
third-annual AstriCon conference, focusing on the
open-source IP PBX and messaging software package.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/102606-astricon-asterisk.html?fsrc=netflash-rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

NIST to Certify Voting Machine Security, Standards,
eweek, 10/26/2006 
The EAC and NIST are working together to create the
standards against which voting products are judged.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2041377,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/

Diebold Hid Faulty Machines From Elections Board,
Techdirt, 10/26/2006 
The Washington Post has now discovered that Diebold
had to quietly replace defective parts on a bunch of
their machines last year.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20061026/110545.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/

Lawmakers Pushing for Paper Trail As Backup, Wash
Post, 10/26/2006 
A computer glitch that alters the names of some
candidates on electronic ballots in three Virginia
cities helps prove the need to create a paper record
of each vote cast, two state lawmakers said yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501918.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/

Profit at BellSouth Jumped by a Third in Latest
Period, NYT, 10/26/2006 
A surge in wireless and broadband business helped
offset BellSouth&#146;s loss of more than 300,000
access lines in the quarter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/technology/25bell.html?ex=1319428800&en=53564f579e4c9a79&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/

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