[Cybertel-Ann] 4.9.8 :: P2P Mousetraps :: SAMs $500 OBO :: Pumping Heat :: Ridiculous Spectacle :: The Sky is Falling (Again) :: You Mean My Violent Prose on Facebook Wasnt Private?? ::

Thu Apr 10 17:59:57 PDT 2008

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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that
wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful
tomorrows. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Public Knowledge Commends International Consumer Net
Neutrality Resolution, PK
The Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), earlier
this week approved, and presented to representatives
of the U.S. government, a resolution in favor of
policies that will promote a non-discriminatory
Internet. The TACD is a group of 60 consumer and
public-interest organizations from the European Union
and the U.S. More background on the organization is
found at www.tacd.org.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/267223803/1513
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Pando's Building a Better P2P Mousetrap - P4P Research
highlights new, more efficient approach, dslreports
ISPs continue their efforts to play nice with P2P
protocols under the banner of the P4P Research Group
(pdf). The group is working on making a more efficient
P2P protocol that saves transit time by only serving
file parts from local peers to reduce hops.
Participant Pando Networks networks this morning
released more details of their coordinated tests with
Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and many other ISPs.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Pandos-Building-a-Better-P2P-Mousetrap-93441
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Comcast /BitTorrent Update: Important Filings by
Topolski, Peha, and Ou (and some analysis by yr 
,
Tales from the Sausage Factory
Most folks do not monitor the day-to-day filings in
the Broadband Practices Notice of Inquiry, Docket No.
07-52, the proceeding which has become the open docket
part of the regulatory discussion on Comcast's
treatment of p2p uploads. Lucky them. ...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1143
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Politicians fret over military gear resold on eBay,
Craigslist, CNET
Government investigators say it's easy to purchase
night-vision goggles, F-14 antennas, Army uniforms and
the like online. Now Congress is considering new laws
aimed at stopping that.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9916239-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/

GAO-08-644T, Internet Sales: Undercover Purchases on
eBay and Craigslist Reveal a Market for Sensitive and
Stolen U.S. Military Items, April 10, 2008, GAO
Unauthorized individuals, companies, terrorist
organizations, and other countries continue their
attempts to obtain sensitive items related to the
defense of the United States. The Internet is one
place that defense-related items can be purchased,
raising the possibility that some sensitive items are
available to those who can afford them. In addition to
the risk that sensitive defense-related items could be
used to directly harm U.S. service ...
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08644t.pdf?source=ra
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/

Swimming pool heated by data center's excess heat, CW
Because the data center generates so much heat, the
Zurich-based owner negotiated with local government
officials to pump heat to an indoor facility with
several swimming pools.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/267765799/article.do
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/environment/

Internet Giants Huddle Around Yahoo! in Ridiculous
Spectacle, IP Democracy
Let's see...Microsoft, an aging though powerful tech
and would-be Internet giant, offered to buy Yahoo, an
aging and increasingly weak former Internet giant, in
a $44.6 billion buyout bid. Yahoo refused to bite and
now the offer has turned hostile.
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2008/04/09/#002939
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/yahoo.htm

Saudi Arabia - Authorities asked to say why they have
been holding blogger for past four months - 9.04.2008,
Reporters Without Boarders
No description
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=26524
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm

Hulu sells out ad inventory, more on the way, CNET
Hulu, which shows full-length TV shows, has more ads
coming and continues to try to convince CBS, Viacom,
and Disney to sign on as content providers.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9914907-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

The Sky Is Not Falling, It's the Limit, IIA
Yesterday's NYT story on INSEAD's assessment of global
broadband deployment attempts to offer some balance to
the too-often hysterical debate over American
broadband promise and prowess.  By looking at 68
variables, INSEAD purports to help policy makers and
community leaders understand the picture more
completely than other, allegedly narrower assessments.
 We expect the usual suspects to praise INSEAD's work,
and the usual suspects to condemn it.  We do neither.
http://blog.internetinnovation.org/2008/04/the-sky-is-not-falling-its-the/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/intenret.htm

The Internet's 'Black Holes' - University of
Washington studies the Internet's dark corners....,
dslreports
"At any given moment, a portion of Internet traffic
ends up being routed into information "black holes,"
says research from the University of Washington.
"These are situations where advertised paths exist to
the destination, but messages - a request to visit a
Web site, an outgoing e-mail - get lost along the
way." Since September 17, 2007, the Hubble Project has
operated continuously to find persistent Internet
black holes as they occur. Since the project started,
they've found 883,139 black holes and reachability
problems.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Internets-Black-Holes-93452
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/internet.htm

Overloading the Internet? Recent Media Reports Based
on Dangerous Misinformation, CircleID
The London Times article (and a similar one in the
Guardian) are based on dangerous misinformation. The
net isn't slowing down, and nearly no technical
experts believe major "overload" problems likely on
the backhaul, core, or decent local loop... Net
traffic per user, as documented by Odlyzko and Cisco,
has been growing at about 35-40% the last five years,
and that growth rate is flat and possibly down the
last two years. The net has been able to handle the
increase without price increases, much less overload,
because the primary and rate limiting equipment
(switches, routers, WDM, etc.) have simultaneously
been going down at a similar 35-40%. Moore's Law is
bringing costs down and capacity up at a remarkable
rate.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/84103_overloading_the_internet/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/internet.htm

Oh they have the Internet on Computers now! – Homer
Simpson, CT
Somethings you get around to only when you get a
"roundtoit." I finally got a "roundtoit" for this one.
Subscribers to Cybertelecom News know that I am quote
junky and love to decorate newsletters with pithy
pontifications. Someone asked about them recently,
which led me to wasting an entire evening uploading
the quotes to the Cybertelecom website. Hope you enjoy
and here is a sample:
http://cybertelecom.blogspot.com/2008/04/oh-they-have-internet-on-computers-now.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/quotes.htm

Group calls for teen privacy protections on Facebook,
MySpace, CNET
Child advocates plan to ask the FTC for rules that
would protect teens from data collection and targeted
marketing on sites like MySpace and Facebook.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9915769-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

In an Instant, Message Has a Lasting Impact, Wash Post
Former Robinson High All-Met running back Lucas
Caparelli turned his talent and desire into a
scholarship to Wake Forest University. But after
posting violent prose on his Facebook page, Caparelli
was kicked out of school and faces an uncertain
future.
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/267702765/AR2008040803211.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

Cyber risk 'equals 9/11 impact', BBC
The US homeland security chief calls on Silicon Valley
to help secure the cyber highway from attacks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7335930.stm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

Email Attack Circulating, US Cert
No description
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#email_attack_circulating
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

What Limits For Warrantless Wiretapping?, Internet
News
RSA panel mulls the balance between security needs and
personal privacy.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/267462076/3739856
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm

An Imperfect (Cyber) Storm, Internet News
Second exercise put communications between public and
private sector to the test.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/267462077/3739851
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm

DHS offers first take on Cyber Storm exercise, CW
An RSA panel on Wednesday offered insight into the
recent Cyber Storm II, as well as a moment of
oversharing.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/267586393/article.do
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm

Chertoff on Cybersecurity: 'Reverse Manhattan Project'
Needed, Ecommerce Times
After working for years to prevent cyberterrorist
attacks on the U.S., the Department of Homeland
Security has approached the private sector for help.
At a talk given to information security professionals
at the RSA Security Conference, Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff warned that a
cyberterrorist attack would hurt the U.S. as much as
the attacks on the World Trade Center buildings on
Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/62517.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm

Stolen Data So Plentiful, The Market For It Has
Collapsed, Techdirt
There are so many data leaks these days that it's
hardly even newsworthy every time some company reveals
your social security number and credit card. However,
would you believe that it's also impacting the
economics for fraudsters? Matt Bennett alerts us to
the news that the price of fraudulently obtained data
is falling through the floor thanks to the glut of it
on the market. There are so many collections of credit
cards or bank account numbers that the crooks who are
buying them are buying them in bigger batches at
greatly deflated prices. By the way, the falling
dollar has
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080409/160717802.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/idtheft.com

Seminar Explores Voice Over Internet Protocol
Technologies and Implementation, MERIT
The Merit NOC has come home to Merit's new staff
headquarters. Merit has run a Network Operations
Center since 1987, including through the very active
years of the NSFNet project. But as startup funding
for the Internet ended in the mid-1990s, most of
Merit's NSFNet staff were spun off to continue
building the Internet through a series of private
companies. Read rest of story.
http://www.merit.edu/news/newsarchive/article.php?article=20080409_voip
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

P2P VoIP Outfit Ooma Struggling? - Blog darling sees
rash of executive departures
, dslreports
Remember Ooma? The $400 broadband voice gizmo that was
being praised by legions of startup-promoting,
star-struck blogs as the second coming of voice? The
one backed by actor Ashton Kutcher (who directed this
viral ad for the company)? You may be shocked to learn
that Valleywag is reporting that the company is
struggling. According to the report, the company has
lost three high-level executives (including their CFO)
and no longer employs its outsourced PR firm.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/P2P-VoIP-Outfit-Ooma-Struggling-93475
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

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