From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Fri Aug 7 08:17:58 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:17:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 8.7 :: FCC BB Workshops :: Twitter DOS :: Internet Safety :: ICANN :: News versus Bloggers :: Facebook is good for you :: Message-ID: <885498.23550.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ FCC Kicks Off Broadband Roadshow, Internet News As it sets out to craft a national broadband strategy, agency aims to showcase virtues of universal access to high-speed Internet. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/OsUL8QHOnOI/3833551 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm ALA: FCC should consider role, benefits of libraries in National Broadband Plan, ALA FCC should consider role, benefits of libraries in National Broadband Plan http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/august2009/salinger_wo.cfm?persistent=0&expy_dt= More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Genachowski Remarks at National Broadband Plan Workshop, WISPA Good morning. It?s my pleasure to welcome you to the Omnibus Broadband Initiative?s first public workshop. We currently plan to host nearly two dozen workshops in the next month, a goal some have said is impossible. To them, I say the Washington Nationals have won 4 straight. We?ve got a great program lined up [...] http://www.wispa.org/2009/08/06/genachowski-remarks-at-national-broadband-plan-workshop/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Broadband's Impact on Citizen Engagement, Pew Internet The goal of this FCC workshop is to assess, and facilitate a conversation about, the current state of data on broadband adoption and utilization, as well as the associated measurement and other challenges. Susannah Fox will discuss the Pew Internet Project's latest data on broadband adoption and the difference broadband makes to http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/25--Broadbands-Impact-on-Citizen-Engagement.aspx More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm FCC Hosts 18 Summer Blockbuster Broadband Hearings, Wired The FCC finishes off the summer with 18 hearings on its national broadband plan, each with a different focus. If you are a fan of the net and want to save money on your summer travel plans, be citizenly by staying home to watch net neutrality and digital divide hearings. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/9bcJjFE4GPg/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm ALA Washington Office full steam ahead with advising libraries on BTOP applications, ALA ALA Washington Office full steam ahead with advising libraries on BTOP applications http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/august2009/steam_wo.cfm?persistent=0&expy_dt= More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Cafes start banning laptops, shutting down Wi-Fi, Muni I came across an article in the Wall Street Journal about cafes in New York City turning of Wi-Fi access during lunch hours, covering electric sockets, and in some extreme cases, sending away people with laptops. The problem: customers who occupy tables for hours, nursing one cup of coffee, working away while other customers who actually http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/XvxH7PSUCAo/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm Aneesh Chopra on Internet safety, safekids Aneesh Chopra, the nation?s first chief technology officer came to Silicon Valley this week to speak at the Churchill Club and the Internet Education Foundation?s State of the Net West conference. During my interview with him at the State of the Net, I asked him about Internet safety. Click below to hear just that brief portion of the interview. http://www.safekids.com/2009/08/05/aneesh-chopra-on-internet-safety/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Belt & Suspenders, PFF Representatives Markey and Eshoo recently introduced a bill providing the Federal Communications Commission with extensive regulatory authority over the Internet entitled the "Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009." The bill would amend Title I of the Communications Act, among other things, to: (i) include a new "Internet Freedom" section http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/08/belt_suspenders.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Comcast adopts DNS hijacking, imposes irritating opt-out, Ars Technica DNS redirection (or DNS hijacking, depending on who you ask) is now officially "Comcastic!" after the cable company yesterday began a nationwide deployment of its "Domain Helper" service. The new product, which has been tested in trial markets since July 9, redirects nonexistent URLs like www.clinteckergoatbonedbyhisnewbicycle.com to a search http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/comcasts-dns-redirect-service-goes-nationwide.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Pew: Broadband Fuels Online Video Growth, Nextgenweb Once again, the Pew Internet & American Life Project delivers great statistics when it comes to the ways Americans are embracing the Internet. The report, appropriately entitled ?The Audience for Online Video-Sharing Sites Shoots Up,? documents the tremendous growth of online video. Among the highlights: http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/pew-broadband-fuels-online-video-growth More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/statapps.htm ITU Stealthily Proposes Takeover of ICANN, PFF In order to facilitate a "people-centered, inclusive, development-oriented and non-discriminatory Information Society," the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations recently released a report to enhance cooperation on issues related to the Internet. The most important bits are located in the annex, under the heading, "International http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/08/itu_stealthily_proposes_takeover_of_icann.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm Key Members of Congress Call for Permanent ICANN-US Tie, CircleID Philip Corwin of the Internet Commerce Associations reports: "In a stunning rebuke of ICANN's assertion that it had achieved sufficient accountability and professional stature to justify termination of its unique relationship with the U.S. government, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as the Chairman of its http://www.circleid.com/posts/key_members_of_congress_call_for_permanent_icann_us_tie/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm Comcast Posts Profit, but Loses Video Subscribers, NYT Cost controls and a tax gain helped the cable operator, but it lost basic video subscribers amid the weak economy and competition from phone and satellite operators. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=61bcd2e0edad57924356116c4d85823a More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm Verizon Again Threatens Massachusetts Investment - Despite having run out of things to threaten the state about..., dslreports In 1915, in order to spur deployment of phone service to under-served areas of the State, Massachusetts lawmakers exempted phone company poles and cables from property taxes when they passed through public property. Nearly a century later, the state is trying to change that and as you can imagine -- it doesn't sit well with Verizon. According http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Again-Threatens-Massachusetts-Investment-103812 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm Correcting A Few 'Facts' From The RIAA... For Which We Feel We Deserve Payment, Techdirt After the Jammie Thomas ruling, the RIAA kept its typical gloating to a minimum, recognizing the PR disaster that the nearly $2 million judgment presented for its already widely disliked members. A few mistakes slipped through, but for the most part, the RIAA kept pretty quiet hoping that Thomas would settle rather than appeal (that didn't work) http://techdirt.com/articles/20090806/0152595783.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm How AP's News Registry Will (and Won't) Work, Poytner The Associated Press's announcement of a news registry to "track and tag all AP content" to "assure compliance with terms of use" has stirred a lot of discussion. From techies to journalists, it's unclear how the registry will work, whether it will do what AP claims, and how it will fit in with copyright law and the culture of the Web. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=167852&sid=26 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm More Examples Of Newspapers 'Parasiting' Blogs, Techdirt I think this particular angle has been played out with a few previous examples, but I did want to post one final example of how common it appears for newspapers to copy stories from blogs without giving any credit at all. If Ian Shapira was upset that Gawker "only" gave him three links, I wonder what he feels about a long list of newspapers http://techdirt.com/articles/20090807/0219315798.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Circulation, Page Views Up at Christian Science Monitor but Solvency Not Yet in Sight, Poytner Print circulation and Web traffic have grown at The Christian Science Monitor since its recent switch to "Web-first, plus print weekly," but advertising remains sluggish and break-even a distant dream. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=168017&sid=26 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm News Corp. to charge for newspaper websites, Globe and Mail Owner of Wall Street Journal, Times of London will start collecting from readers for access, Murdoch says http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/XOwM9rC4RO0/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Social Networking: It is Good for Your Mind, Study Says, USTelecom We know social networking holds the power to reunite us with old friends or help land a job, but is it good for our minds too? A new study released by the University of Washington?s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences says so. http://www.ustelecom.org/Video_Blogs/Blog/index.php/2009/08/05/social-networking-it-is-good-for-your-mind-study-says/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm 'Massive attack' strikes websites, BBC Websites including Google and Twitter are targeted by hackers in what is described as a "single, massively co-ordinated attack". http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8189162.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Update on Today's DoS Attacks, Twitter As noted earlier on our Status Blog, Twitter is back in action. The continuing denial of service attack is being mitigated although there is still degraded service for some folks while we recover completely. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/update-on-todays-dos-attacks.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Is a Psychopath Attacking Twitter, Facebook?, Wired Twitter and Facebook are being attacked by a flood of traffic. Weeks ago, unimportant U.S. government sites got the same treatment. One security researcher has a troubling conclusion: the tools of online crime have fallen into the hands of the un-rational. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/-yYFXecdF88/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Twitter limps back to life after DDoS attack, CW After being knocked offline for about two hours today by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, Twitter's site was still slow for many users by early afternoon East Coast time. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136321/Update_Twitter_limps_back_to_life_after_DDoS_attack?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Twitter Goes Down in Attack, Internet News The denial-of-service attack comes as but the latest challenge for the popular microblogging service. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/rpZyYTlY7nA/3833501 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Denial of Service Attack, Twitter On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/denial-of-service-attack.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm IP-Enabled Services, Fed Reg This document amends the Commission's rules so that providers of interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service will be required to comply with the same discontinuance rules as domestic non dominant telecommunications carriers. These rules protect consumers of interconnected VoIP service from the abrupt discontinuance, reduction or impairment of their service by requiring http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-08-07-E9-18716 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/fcc.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom is Off-the-Record. Otherwise play nicely. 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Message-ID: <824738.17383.qm@web37902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches? - The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825) RCN Hints At DOCSIS 3.0 Arrival - 'The geeks call it channel bonding,' proclaims carrier..., dslreports RCN users write in to tell us that the latest RCN newsletter indicates that the cable overbuilder will soon be deploying DOCSIS 3.0 technology and faster speeds. In the newsletter, the cable operator suggests that new speeds up to 60Mbps are looming, but doesn't note full speed or pricing details. "The geeks call it 'channel bonding' http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/RCN-Hints-At-DOCSIS-30-Arrival-103875 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/cable.htm Broadband, Open Government, and Brainstorms, OSTP Kudos to the FCC for finding innovative ways to engage the public in an on-going dialogue about a National Broadband Plan to bring broadband to all Americans. I attended yesterday?s opening workshop ? the first of more than 20 such workshops at the FCC. If you weren?t there live, you could have watched it on the web or participated in Second Life. And if you missed it, you can join in the Open Government Broadband Brainstorm at http://fcc-opengov.ideascale.com/ where the FCC is seeking examples from you and your communities about how broadband is being used to achieve a host of national priorities. http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/08/07/broadband-open-government-and-brainstorms/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm NTIA Losing Game of Data Chicken, PK A week or so ago we posed this choice: ?At the end of the day, somebody is going to be in control of the mapping. It will either be the public, and the public interest, as represented by NTIA, or the industry.? http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/D2-e2DMCLTk/2595 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Broadband stimulus: look back to understand the promising future, Muni To properly direct the potential success of the federal broadband stimulus, we need to look back before moving forward. Looking back, the need to create greater competition in the United States telecommunications industry was recognized by both the Democratic and Republican parties. The consent decree of 1982 that broke up http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/t-Hr-cCz6DY/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Comcast WiMax To Hit Chicago, Philly - Company says 40% of 4G customers are new to Comcast..., dslreports As we noted yesterday, Comcast has informed us they've sped up their deployment of faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds, and will now deliver the technology to 80% of their customers by the end of this year. But in this week's conference call, the cable giant also noted that they'll soon be expanding the markets in which they deliver their Mobile WiMax http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-WiMax-To-Hit-Chicago-Philly-103837 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm State of U.S. Wireless Data: Q2 2009, Gigaom Our friend Chetan Sharma, who is a member of the GigaOM Pro Analyst Network, has put together a report on the state of the wireless industry for the second quarter of 2009. Here are some of the highlights that show that the demand for wireless data continues to grow despite the current economic downturn. His presentation is below the fold. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/qy_i2J9Ipy0/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm The Big Disconnect: What Teens Do Online and What Parents Believe, Ask Mariam The gap in awareness between parent and child in terms of where they go, what they do, who they talk to on the Internet is well-trodden research territory. Symantec's own Norton Online Living Report went there, with data on how much time kids spend online and what their parents think (kids are online twice as long as parents realize.) Today's http://community.norton.com/t5/Ask-Marian/The-Big-Disconnect-What-Teens-Do-Online-and-What-Parents-Believe/ba-p/129746 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Why Can?t Parental Controls have Great Filtering AND Great Monitoring?, Filtering Facts I?ve identified over 40 products marketed as parental controls. What I?ve found is that most Internet parental control products at their core are either filtering products that specialize in categorizing and blocking websites, or monitoring products that focus on creating a detailed record of Internet activity. http://filteringfacts.org/2009/08/10/why-can%e2%80%99t-parental-controls-have-great-filtering-and-great-monitoring/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Courts Continue to Confine the Roommates Decision to the Specific Facts of that Case, Ecom Law When the Ninth Circuit decided Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommates.com, 521 F.3d 1157 (9th Cir. 2008), we opined that the opinion wasn't "all that earth-shattering. It?s crafted to be narrowly applicable to the particular case decided and should not alter the Section 230 analysis in most future cases." Now, more than a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/E-commerceLaw/~3/8-cTSnxNtuc/courts-continue-to-narrowly-construe-roommatescom.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm F.C.C. Weighs Need for New Cellphone Handset Rules, NYT The federal government has always been involved in wireless networks but until now has rarely overseen the devices themselves. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b3ec1ea8636583b4a3a40d652378954d More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm Google To Wiggle Around, Over iPhone Ban - With Google Voice iPhone-tailored page..., dslreports While AT&T and Apple may have thrown a boulder in Google's path by blocking Google's new voice application from the iPhone application store, Google appears ready to navigate around the obstruction. David Pogue at the New York Times notes Google's already hard at work on a web site specifically tailored to the iPhone to mimic the http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-To-Wiggle-Around-Over-iPhone-Ban-103867 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm Close Reading: The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009, PK Earlier this week, Art called attention to the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009, a bill introduced in Congress by Representatives Ed Markey and Anna Eshoo. The bill, which you can read here (PDF link), marks the latest front in the Net Neutrality battle--the ongoing fight to ensure that the Internet remains an open, http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/uo74ar06IZI/2594 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Bandwidth caps in US very restrictive compared to Japan, Muni The New America Foundation?s Open Technology Initiative has published a report called Bandwidth Caps for Residential High Speed Internet in the US and Japan which reveals ?a large discrepancy in the usage limits ISPs place on consumers in the two countries, with U.S. providers substantially limiting the amount of bandwidth their http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/WaLysv_mrEI/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm OECD Communications Outlook 2009, OECD This new OECD Communications Outlook presents the most recent comparable data on the performance of the communication sector in OECD countries and on their policy frameworks. The 2009 edition analyses the communications sector over the years following the "dot com bubble" crisis and explores future developments. It http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,3373,en_2649_37441_1_1_1_1_37441,00.html?rssChId=37441#43471132 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm The House Committee Letter on ICANN: All politics is local, IGP On August 4 the U.S. House Committee that oversees the Commerce Department published their opinion about ICANN and the impending expiration of its Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with the Commerce Department. The gist of the letter was that the Congressional committee, headed by powerful Democrat Henry Waxman of California, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IGPBlog/~3/5L1J6pD73nY/4283282.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm Senator Mounts New Push to Legalize Net Poker, Internet News Revisiting testy online gambling fight, Robert Menendez looks to separate the legit sites from the scams in the eyes of the law. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/eCcuY9n0rII/3833731 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/gambling.htm Data From Public Consultation on Open Government, OSTP Thanks to everyone for participating in the public consultation on open government. Phase I, ?Brainstorm,? ran from May 21-28th and elicited 900+ ideas and 33,000 votes. Phase II, ?Discussion,? ran from June 3-21 and attracted more than 1,000 comments in response to 16 topics. Phase III, ?Drafting,? which lasted from June 22-July 6, resulted in 305 drafts by 375 authors, with 2,256 of you voting on those drafts. We are in the process of reviewing all these http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/08/07/data-from-public-consultation-on-open-government/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Survey: U.S. Audience for Video-Sharing Sites Nearly Doubles Since '06, Clickz User-generated video proves most popular with young adults. http://feeds.clickz.com/~r/clickzstats/~3/jiCAJhcN9XY/3634669 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Questions of Online Journalism Aren't Just About Copyright: why the law is an imperfect solution to this problem, PK Chris Ahearn of Thomson Reuters has a well-thought-out piece at the MediaFile blog reacting to some of the histrionics surrounding linking, the news, and the Internet. Instead of using blogs, search engines, and the increasing influence of the Internet as scapegoats, he notes the benefits that a news organization receives from aggregators http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/KCxEhwz5ImQ/2596 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again, Wired Most of the net's top sites use a little known capability in Flash to keep track of you, and some sites even use it to reinstall your tracking cookies after you delete them, a new report finds. The study comes as the feds contemplate expanding their use of cookies and cracking down on rogue marketers. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/jJRM7pnTgSg/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/cookies.htm Obama Web-Tracking Proposal Raises Privacy Concerns, Wash Post The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with "cookies" and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups. http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=67514979abd43702e981da42490939ba More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/feds.htm Top Cybersecurity Official Resigns, Wash Post A top operational official in charge of protecting civilian government computer networks has resigned, dealing another blow to the federal effort to enhance cybersecurity. http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=27d23c97780aa9c190724631c6d1f71e More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm Hacked blogger seeks Russia probe, BBC A Georgian blogger at the centre of an attack against Facebook and Twitter asks Russia's president to investigate. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8194395.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Cyberattacks' Aftershocks Hit the Web, Internet News Others piled on after the attacks, aiming to gain from pain -- but some say there are lessons in the rubble. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/hq3hoXP5VIU/3834001 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Security researchers zero in on Twitter hackers, CW Security experts are making progress in their efforts to identify the hackers responsible for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled Twitter for several hours yesterday. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136379/Security_researchers_zero_in_on_Twitter_hackers?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter, NYT The cyberattacks on popular Web services disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of Internet users to get to one man from the republic of Georgia. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=34cf368c601a625d46b0e458fab44c61 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! 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Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Aug 18 07:34:47 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 8.18 :: BB WSs :: Stimulus Money :: Online Safety :: RECAP PACER :: Pointless Babble :: Newspapers Fail :: Message-ID: <821382.76067.qm@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ "Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one." - Benjamin Franklin Broadband Workshops Viewable At Broadband.gov - All discussions are being recorded and archived..., dslreports Just a reminder that as the FCC moves forward with crafting our first ever national broadband plan, the Broadband.gov website is offering users free video of all of the workshops they're holding to discuss different aspects of the plan. All of the workshops are being recorded, and the website offers archived access to all http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-Workshops-Viewable-At-Broadbandgov-103930 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm 5 Signs Our Broadband Plan May Already Be In Trouble - Meet the new heavily-lobbied boss. Same as the old heavily-lobbied boss?, dslreports As the government continues to work on crafting our first national broadband plan, there's been a lot of talk about how that process is consumer-centric, transparent, and data-driven. The FCC has spent the last few months talking about how they might actually start using real data to make policy decisions (astounding). Uncle Sam has unveiled a http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/5-Signs-Our-Broadband-Plan-May-Already-Be-In-Trouble-103936 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm FCC Apparently Not Very Concerned About Consumer Views On Broadband, Techdirt We recently expressed our concerns with the state of the government's attempts to increase broadband in the US. Karl Bode, over at Broadband Reports has now hit quite a homerun with his analysis of 5 signs of why the broadband plan is in trouble. The whole thing is worth reading, but I wanted to highlight number 5 on the list, because http://techdirt.com/articles/20090814/0324115877.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Are the FCC Workshops Fair?, CircleID The FCC has run three days of workshops on the National Broadband Plan now, for the purpose of bringing a diverse set of perspectives on broadband technology and deployment issues to the attention of FCC staff. You can see the workshop agendas here. The collection of speakers is indeed very diverse. As you would expect, the http://www.circleid.com/posts/are_the_fcc_workshops_fair/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Public Knowledge Statement on FCC Broadband Workshops, PK In response to the announcement by the FCC of the panelists for the workshops on deployment and technology for the National Broadband Plan, Harold Feld, Legal Director, Public Knowledge, issued the following statement. http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/jNKWvpUWfpI/2598 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Flush With Cash and Fearing Tighter Rules, Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus, Wash Post The Obama administration made a national priority of spreading high-speed Internet access to every American home and offered stimulus money to help companies pay for it, but the biggest network operators are staying away from the program. http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=f69103729d8f632ed610ac20b21315da More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm The Stop Cyberbullying Toolkit - free for schools, Parry's Blog The volunteers at WiredSafety have worked cyberharassment cases since 1995, 18 months after the launch of the web. Hundreds of thousands of adult and young victims of online harassment and cyberbullying have turned to WiredSafety for help. It has helped educate families on hate and bigotry online and ways to use technology safely http://parryaftab.blogspot.com/2009/08/stop-cyberbullying-toolkit-free-for.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Another Tactic to Keep YouTube Safe for Kids: ZuiTube, Ask Mariam In an earlier blog post, I provided some tips for making YouTube a better, safer experience for children. Despite the fine efforts of the folks at YouTube, not only is there inappropriate content on the site but misleading comments, links and tags can take your child from videos you'd approve of to content you'd never allow. We know that YouTube is the http://community.norton.com/t5/Ask-Marian/Another-Tactic-to-Keep-YouTube-Safe-for-Kids-ZuiTube/ba-p/132691 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Two Interesting Internet Safety Surveys This Week, Filtering Facts This week saw the release of two interesting Internet surveys on online safety. http://filteringfacts.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/two-interesting-internet-safety-surveys-this-week/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Online Safety Blogosphere Roundup Aug 14, Filtering Facts Marian Merritt talks about ?Back To Cyberbullying ? I mean, Back to School? http://filteringfacts.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/online-safety-blogosphere-roundup-aug-14/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm So What's Up With That FCC Investigating Apple and AT&T Blocking Google Voice ? Oh Wait, Th..., Tales from the Sausage Factory So while I was gone, Apple and/or AT&T turned down Google's effort to get a Google Voice Application certified for the iPhone, so the FCC launched an investigation into the matter. Except they didn't. Not exactly. Which is extremely important ... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1615 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm FCC enforcing imaginary laws in P2P ruling, says Comcast, Ars Technica Almost a year ago, Comcast pledged that it would sue the Federal Communications Commission over its Order sanctioning the cable ISP for peer-to-peer throttling. Now, the company has filed its case with the http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/fcc-enforcing-imaginary-laws-in-p2p-ruling-says-comcast.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm Comcast Fighting FCC Throttling Ruling - Still claims agency lacked the authority to act..., dslreports The policy statement (pdf) that guides the FCC's hand in matters of network neutrality is not law, and is intentionally vague enough to allow providers to get away with anything short of an outright traffic blockade. So when the FCC tried to sanction Comcast last year for throttling upstream P2P traffic for all users (regardless of congestion), it http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Fighting-FCC-Throttling-Ruling-103951 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm Broadband Growth Falls Sharply in the U.S., Gigaom After years of breakneck growth, U.S. broadband is in slowdown mode. During the second quarter of 2009, U.S. service providers added less than 650,000 new accounts, down more than 50 percent from 1.6 million additions in the first quarter. (Stats below the fold.) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/uWkRfW-BQEU/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm Introducing RECAP: Turning PACER Around, Freedom to Tinker With today's technologies, government transparency means much more than the chance to read one document at a time. Citizens today expect to be able to download comprehensive government datasets that are machine-processable, open and free. Unfortunately, government is much slower than industry when it comes to adopting new http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/harlanyu/introducing-recap-turning-pacer-around More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Egypt: Limited Internet is Unlimited Backwardness, Global Voices In a previous post, Tarek Amr captured the initial reactions to TE-Data's fair usage policy (FUP) , followed by more adverse reactions hitting the Egyptian blogosphere. Then the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology changes its mind. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/08/16/egypt-limited-internet-is-unlimited-backwardness/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/africa.htm Stop the presses! 40% of tweets are 'pointless babble', CW The most surprising -- or not -- finding of a study by Pear Analytics is that 40.55% of tweets are 'pointless babble.' At least it's not a higher percentage http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136645/Stop_the_presses_40_of_tweets_are_pointless_babble_?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ The Original Sin Of Newspapers: Not Innovating, Techdirt There's this concept out there in the newspaper world, pushed by Alan Mutter more than any other, that the "original sin" of the newspaper industry was failing to charge when they put their content online. This is simply wrong. Many did try to charge, and they failed, because no one paid. However, Steve Buttry has a post making a much better http://techdirt.com/articles/20090817/0141545897.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Extra! Extra! FTC Announces Revised Schedule for Workshop: "From Town Criers to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?", FTC The Federal Trade Commission today announced December 1 and 2, 2009, as the dates on which it will begin a series of workshops titled "From Town Criers to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?" The workshops previously were scheduled to begin on September 15, 2009. http://ftc.gov/opa/2009/08/news2009.shtm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Why Newspapers Are Failing (Hint: Failure To Get Users To Pay Is NOT The Reason), Techdirt A bunch of folks have been submitting two separate stories about why the newspaper business is failing. Much of the stories cover ground that we've covered before, but they do so in such a nice, well-argued package, that I wanted to mention them here. The first, by Bill Wyman, gives five reasons why newspapers are failing. The list is http://techdirt.com/articles/20090814/0402125881.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Neighborhood blogs drive participation in city planning: The..., Lost Remote The city of Seattle has been encouraging residents to fill out a survey to provide their feedback on the growth plan for each of their neighborhoods. And surprise, when the city created this graph (above) that showed how many surveys have been completed by neighborhood, the top http://lostremote.com/post/162224821 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm AT&T Shuts Down Broadband TV Service, Gigaom AT&T is shutting down its broadband TV service on Sept. 1, leaving users with a little over two weeks to continue watching live TV streamed to their PCs. AT&T launched the service in 2006. When it comes to streamed television over the Internet, several new entrants ? Hulu and Netflix, for instance ? have offered a better http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/crA92lWbwNE/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm Major News Stories Drive June Surge in U.S. Online Video Viewing to Record 157 Million Viewers, comscore comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released June 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that more than 157 million U.S. Internet users viewed video online during the month, the largest audience recorded for a single month. The surge in video viewing is primarily attributable to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/comscore/~3/SMSa49_FakU/Major_News_Stories_Drive_June_Surge_in_U.S._Online_Video_Viewing_to_Record_157_Million_Viewers More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm Anonymization FAIL! Privacy Law FAIL!, Freedom to Tinker I have uploaded my latest draft article entitled, Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization to SSRN (look carefully for the download button, just above the title; it's a little buried). According to my abstract: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paul/anonymization-fail-privacy-law-fail More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ Georgia cyberattacks linked to Russian organized crime, CW The cyberattacks against Georgia a year ago were conducted in close connection with Russian criminal gangs, and the attackers likely were tipped off about Russia's intent to invade the country, according to a new technical analysis, much of which remains secret. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136719/Georgia_cyberattacks_linked_to_Russian_organized_crime?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Georgia, Russia: More on DDOS Attacks, Global Voices More on the recent DDOS attacks http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/08/18/georgia-russia-more-on-ddos-attacks/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Twitter withstands second DDoS attack in a week, CW Twitter withstood yesterday's distributed denial-of-service attack far better than it handled a similar attack last week. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136600/Twitter_withstands_second_DDoS_attack_in_a_week?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dos.htm Undersea Internet cables undergoing repairs after typhoon, CW Some undersea fiber-optic cables that carry Internet and communications traffic to parts of Southeast Asia and China have already been repaired while officials continue to assess damage to others, a spokesperson for Chunghwa Telecom said Friday. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136658/Undersea_Internet_cables_undergoing_repairs_after_typhoon?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/reliability.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! 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FB Shares Info w My Friends ?? :: Message-ID: <192296.22428.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. Ian Hart Keep Off the Astroturf, Save the Internet If you haven't been paying attention to the rise of Astroturf in Washington, in the media and at your local town hall meeting, now's the time to tune in. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/09/08/19/keep-astroturf More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ FCC Launches New Broadband Plan Blog - Blair Levin leads 'assault of sustained thinking...', dslreports The government continues to promise they'll make the development of our national broadband plan a transparent process, though as we noted last week there are some problems that need addressing. While it won't solve any of them, this week the FCC launched a new blog that will discuss their progress during the remaining 183 days of the http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Launches-New-Broadband-Plan-Blog-103999 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm @USA: We're Writing the National Broadband Plan!, Wired The FCC has to craft a national broadband plan by February. It's inviting the peanut gallery to watch and comment through a new blog and Twitter feed. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/0iuB2suWlXM/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm FCC Probes Demand Side of Broadband Debate, Internet News Commission hears from experts on strategies to convince digital holdouts that broadband is the way to go. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/yl0fnYhCLLo/3835301 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Broadband plan needs to address demand, advocates say, CW The U.S. Federal Communications Commission must find ways to address demand for broadband, as well as supply, when drafting a national plan, several advocates told commission staff members. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136850/Broadband_plan_needs_to_address_demand_advocates_say?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm FCC Hears From Experts on Broadband Adoption, Nextgenweb Today, the FCC hosted a panel of experts for the latest workshop in their broadband series, entitled ?Building the Fact Base: The State of Broadband Adoption and Utilization.? Each of the following panelists gave a short presentation and then answered questions both from the FCC and the public. http://www.nextgenweb.org/home/fcc-hears-from-experts-on-broadband-adoption More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Workshop Summary: Technology/Wireless, Blogband On Thursday we had a very interesting workshop on the role of wireless technology in offering fixed and mobile broadband access. The workshop was divided into two panels. The first panel discussed the status of mobile wireless and the second addressed the opportunities and challenges of serving rural users. Everyone agreed that http://blog.broadband.gov/?p=73 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm How can Broadband Services Benefit Consumers?, Digital Beat Wednesday's second National Broadband Plan workshop on adoption and use focused on ways in which broadband services can benefit consumers, particularly those in groups that historically have been less likely to adopt or utilize broadband. Brian David, the FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative Adoption and Usage Director, led http://www.benton.org/node/27244 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm From Wires to People, Benton On August 19, the Federal Communications Commission devotes a full day to people. After talking about deployment and technology and even small business, Wednesday's discussion shifts to why and how people use broadband. The FCC is in the middle of a series of discussions on creating a National Broadband Plan. So far, the http://www.benton.org/node/27234 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Building the Fact Base: Broadband Adoption and Use, Benton John Horrigan, the Consumer Research Director for the Federal Communications Commission's Omnibus Broadband Initiative, moderated the August 19 National Broadband Plan workshop on the state of broadband adoption and use. The aim, he said, was to help the FCC think about who has broadband in the US and who http://www.benton.org/node/27242 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Unwired States Ask Qwest To Reconsider Stimulus Snub - But why not let rural-focused ISPs step in?, dslreports As we noted last week, a number of the largest ISPs, including Qwest, are staying away from the first round of stimulus funding because, even with a taxpayer cash infusion, they really have little interest in serving and maintaining rural broadband customers. Montana Public Service Commission leaders are begging Qwest to http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Unwired-States-Ask-Qwest-To-Reconsider-Stimulus-Snub-104034 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Smartphone Wi-Fi Use Quadruples, Sales Up 47%, Internet News As smartphone sales and Wi-Fi use surge, a symbiotic relationship between the two is causing waves throughout the wireless industry. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/iSXpRPjgWaI/3835381 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm Sameer Hinduja on Beating Cyberbullying, Part 2, Internet Safety We continue our conversation with Sameer Hinduja, co-founder of the Cyberbullying Research Center and noted expert in the field. Today we?re going to be talking about what to do when a child seems to be involved in cyberbullying. http://blog.internetsafety.com/2009/08/19/sameer-hinduja-on-beating-cyberbullying-part-2/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm OnlineFamily.Norton| Top 50 Search Terms of the Summer, iKeepSafe I don?t believe summer is officially over until the first day of Fall (which isn?t until September 22). However, many kids are already back in school, and OnlineFamily.Norton recently released its official Kids? Top 100 Search Terms list. http://ikeepsafe.blogspot.com/2009/08/onlinefamilynorton-top-50-search-terms.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Transcript of 7/27 PFF Event on Child Safety, Privacy, and Free Speech, Filtering Facts On July 27th, The Progress & Freedom Foundation hosted a Capitol Hill panel discussion entitled ?Online Child Safety, Privacy, and Free Speech: An Overview of Challenges in Congress & the States.? The event featured remarks from: http://filteringfacts.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/transcript-of-727-pff-event-on-child-safety-privacy-and-free-speech/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Section 230: The Cornerstone of Internet Freedom, Tech Lib Front I noted Eric Goldman?s excellent outline about Section 230 back in June. As Adam has noted, Section 230 is about more than just protecting online intermediaries bottom line or even about freeing them to provide the content and services we all take for granted. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/VzLFlylzxUg/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm Legacy Regulation Killed Google Voice, Tech Lib Front Reacting to Apple?s decision to not allow Google Voice for the iPhone, Wall Street Journal guest columnist Andy Kessler complains, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/k941kxNuV_Q/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm AT&T No Longer Wants Kevin Mitnick As A Customer - Tells him to take a hike after he complains of privacy violations..., dslreports AT&T this week politely informed reformed hacker Kevin Mitnick that they could no longer serve him as a customer. Mitnick apparently hired a lawyer this week to complain to the provider that people were obtaining his personal information and posting it to public hacker forums. "They can't seem to secure my account," says Mitnick. "And then http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-No-Longer-Wants-Kevin-Mitnick-As-A-Customer-104035 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpni.htm WSJ: AT&T Is Dying - Baby bell doesn't have many friends these days..., dslreports A Wall Street Journal op-ed gives AT&T a solid one-two punch this morning, insisting that the baby bell is "dying," then proclaiming that AT&T is "dragging down the rest of us by overcharging us for voice calls and stifling innovation in a mobile data market critical to the U.S. economy." The thrust of the complaint is centered around AT&T and http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/WSJ-ATT-Is-Dying-104015 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm Internet in China Disrupted for a Third Day After Earthquake Damaged Undersea Cables, CircleID Internet service in China was disrupted for a third day on Wednesday after an earthquake damaged undersea cables used by the country's telecommunications operators. http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_in_china_disrupted_earthquake_undersea_cables/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm Bits: Washington Post Ends Hyperlocal News Experiment, NYT The newspaper's decision to terminate a Web site focused on Loudon County, Va., shows how difficult it is to create a strong, profitable hyperlocal news entity. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=cdd26cd6bedf1271f1eaed384cb4c91b More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Facebook sued for being a social-network site, Net Family News I can't always fit the bottom line of a story in the headline, but this time I could. "Five Facebook users are suing the social network for doing what made it an online superstar ? letting members share aspects of their lives on the Web," Agence France Presse reports. They allege that Facebook violates California's privacy laws, reports http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/08/facebook-sued-for-being-social-network.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm Study: U.K. Teens Gravitate to Facebook, Shun MySpace and Bebo, Clickz comScore data suggests young adults are abandoning secondary networks. http://feeds.clickz.com/~r/clickzstats/~3/9WvyC7Wg9Z4/3634721 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm USDA: Yes, Rural Broadband Still Sucks - At least we THINK it sucks, since FCC data sucks as well..., dslreports The United States Department of Agriculture has had a role to play in improving the nation's broadband fortunes for some time, overseeing the delivery of rural funds for infrastructure improvement with mixed results. With the agency poised to hand out additional $2.5 billion in grants and loans, the agency today released a report noting a continued http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/USDA-Yes-Rural-Broadband-Still-Sucks-104022 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/dd.htm Broadband Plays Catch-Up in Rural Areas, Outpaces Growth in Big Cities, comscore comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on broadband growth in rural, micropolitan and metropolitan areas in the United States. The results of the analysis indicate that while broadband penetration is much higher in the metropolitan and micropolitan areas, broadband has http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/comscore/~3/J34_NIENA_0/Broadband_Plays_Catch-Up_in_Rural_Areas_Outpaces_Growth_in_Big_Cities More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/dd.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom is Off-the-Record. Otherwise play nicely. Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Aug 25 09:23:48 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 8.25 :: BB WS :: Connected Nation :: WiMax's Future :: Internet Dangers :: AppleGoogleATT :: Twitter from a Game; Get an Invoice :: Message-ID: <681765.37972.qm@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ "Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience...Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring" -Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950 Note: Sorry about the formatting Broadband Opportunities for People With Disabilities, FCC I just joined the broadband team last week to help out on the disability access policy issues. When Cheryl King, the workshop coordinator, told me that we were going to conduct a 90-minute town hall meeting with well over 100 participants which would cover 16 sets of questions and would allow for participation via the Internet and a phone http://blog.broadband.gov/?p=105 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Broadband Opportunities for Disadvantaged Businesses, FCC On August 18, the FCC conducted its Broadband Workshop on ?Opportunities for Disadvantaged Businesses, which examined whether small and disadvantaged businesses are ready to take advantage of new and existing broadband technologies. http://blog.broadband.gov/?p=103 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Broadband Over Power Line Systems, Fed Reg This document addresses certain issues from the Commission's Report and Order on rules for broadband over power line systems and devices (BPL Order) that was remanded by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. In the BPL Order, the Commission established technical standards, operating restrictions and http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-08-24-E9-20336 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/power.htm Kentucky Cable Companies Oppose Connected Nation, PK Connected Nation is coming under increased pressure at its birthplace in Kentucky, with the cable industry and municipal utilities raising opposition to the telecom-based organization and Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear (D) asking Connect Kentucky (CK) to respond to the municipal organization?s concerns about CK. http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/SpjfDTyEiCU/2605 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Broadband Giants Stay Neutral on Network Funding, CircleID It looks as if the big boys like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast are passing on the stimulus money. The official reason is that they don't need it, that they enough cash on hand to build out their networks on their own. Fair enough. Perhaps the funding should be reserved for those more in need, those that just need a boost to fund a new business model or http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090824_broadband_giants_stay_neutral_on_network_funding/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Connected Nation and ESRIs partnership to benefit state-based broadband initiatives, Connected Nation On Monday, ESRI issued a news release about its BroadbandStat, the company?s new Web application that provides tools for mapping broadband coverage and http://connectednation.com/in_the_news/the_blog/2009/08/connected-nation-and-esris-partnership.php More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm WiMAX?s Future Is in Emerging Markets, Gigaom WiMAX, the wireless broadband technology that is vying with Long Term Evolution to become the standard for the next generation of higher-speed wireless networks, draws either delight or derision, depending on whom you ask ? its champions or detractors. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/gHO_O2eJgGw/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm Internet Dangers - A Week's Roundup, Ask Mariam Filthy, dirty websites to avoid; Cyberbullying leads to jailtime for one UK girl and legal trouble for a Missouri woman; Freedom of speech versus internet slander; Hotelier data breach, and first US center for web addictions. These are some of the topics in our headlines across a variety of Internet safety topics. Let's break it down: http://community.norton.com/t5/Ask-Marian/Internet-Dangers-A-Week-s-Roundup/ba-p/137216 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Online Retailer Isn't Liable for User Comments--Cornelius v. DeLuca, Technology & Marketing Law Cornelius v. DeLuca, 2009 WL 2568044 (E.D. Mo. Aug. 18, 2009) DeLuca runs http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/08/online_retailer_1.htm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm Critics call shenanigans after Apple, AT&T letters to FCC, Ars Technica All responses are in to the Federal Communications Commission's query asking why Apple put Google Voice for its iPhone on ice. But chances are that the answers that the FCC has received from Apple and AT&T will only provoke more questions. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/08/critics-call-shenanigans-in-wake-of-apple-att-fcc-replies.ars More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm Apple Denies It Rejected Google Application for iPhone, NYT Apple told the F.C.C. it is still studying the iPhone application, in part because of privacy concerns. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=dcc77eaa8a972a7f6f00a57bd7a5282e More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm Apple Pulled Google Voice App, Not AT&T, Gigaom Apple pulled the Google Voice iPhone application from the iPhone, according to letters the company filed in response to an inquiry by the Federal Communications Commission. Apple says that it has not outright rejected the Google Voice app, but is merely studying it. Problem is, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/39VHVcHWc2c/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm AT&T Statement on Letter to the FCC Regarding Apple App Store, AT&T On July 31, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued letters to Apple, AT&T and Google with a series of questions about the Google Voice app and Apple's App Store approval process. AT&T today responded to the questions raised in the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau letter. The following http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AttCorporateRssFeeds/~3/Yy6Tm-VC-rM/press-room More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm AT&T says it didn't block Google Voice, CW Apple is still reviewing the Google Voice iPhone application, and AT&T has not played any role in that review process, the companies told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Friday. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137002/AT_T_says_it_didn_t_block_Google_Voice?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm ISOC's Mat Ford Discusses IPv6 Deployment at IPv6ActNow.org, ISOC Mat Ford Discusses Moving to IPv6 at IPv6ActNow.org http://www.ipv6actnow.org/info/video/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm IPv6 for Community Networks -- A Proposal Whose Time Has Come!, Sascha My colleague, Josh King, and I have been working since 2005 to get IPv6 (Internet addresses) for community networks and everything may come down to the next few weeks. We're asking ARIN to create a process for allocating address space to local broadband networks and could use your support for this proposal. A brief e-mail to http://saschameinrath.com/2009/aug/22/ipv6_community_networks_proposal_whose_time_has_come More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Federal Courts Sound The Alarm Against RECAP; Worried About PACER Profits, Techdirt We've been excited to see what would happen with the RECAP Firefox extension, which is being used to help free up public domain court documents that have been locked up behind the PACER paywall. However, there were also questions about how the folks who run and/or benefit from PACER would react. We now have at least part of the http://techdirt.com/articles/20090824/0452165974.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People, NYT Founded on the concept that anyone could change its content, the online encyclopedia is requiring reviews on articles about living people after embarrassing incidents. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=a416050f8b38d6d6dd25ddf411b73d8b More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Wisconsin Sports League Sends Newspapers Invoices For Live Blogging, Techdirt The NY Times checked in with its own version of the story about sports leagues restricting what fans can do in the stands to share their experience -- a story that we've already covered. However, Romenesko points us to a little tidbit down at the bottom of the NYT article, talking about other leagues that have tried to do something similar, http://techdirt.com/articles/20090821/0311335953.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ And Another One: CNN Found 'Ripping Off' Others' Reporting, Techdirt Remember a few weeks back when a Washington Post reporter claimed that Gawker was "ripping off" his reporting, despite the fact that the Gawker piece linked back to the original article three times? Since then, we've noted how common it is for the mainstream press to do much worse to bloggers, quite often giving them no credit at http://techdirt.com/articles/20090823/1712315969.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Debate Over Journalism's Financial Future Offers Some Hope, Poytner As another week of furious debate draws to a close without any clear path to journalism's financial future, I find myself feeling strangely optimistic. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=168806&sid=26 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. 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Ludwig B?rne 1st Workshop on Internet Economics, CAIDA The 1st Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE'09) hosted by CAIDA and Georgia Tech will be held on September 23 (Wed) - September 24 (Thu), 2009 in San Diego, CA. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, commercial Internet facilities and service providers, technologists, theorists, policy makers, RIR stakeholders, and http://www.caida.org/workshops/wie/0909/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/backbone.htm FCC broadband workshop on applications and devices: 27 Aug 2009, Muni FCC is hosting a Broadband Workshop on Technology Applications and Devices on 27 August 2009 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time. Here?s a description of the workshop from the FCC site: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/rONV_BeJJ9I/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Be Safe with Broadband, Nextgenweb The FCC has held a series of broadband workshops over the past few weeks all focused on developing a national broadband strategy. It?s no surprise then that today the FCC turned its attention to public safety. Innovations enabled by broadband are paving the way to unparalleled public safety platforms. http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/be-safe-with-broadband More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Broadband Adoption: If We Build It, Will They Come?, FCC One of the challenges facing the Broadband Task Force is a question inspired by the 1989 classic film, ?Field of Dreams?: if we build it, will they come? As John mentioned in his post, the 37% of Americans who have not adopted home broadband have a unique set of concerns, needs and barriers to overcome. Our two afternoon http://blog.broadband.gov/?p=141 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Broadband Adoption Barriers, FCC The great thing about bringing people together to talk about broadband adoption data is that you always get new ideas for questions to pursue in the future. At the ?Building the Fact? base workshop last week, this dynamic played out as expected. Susannah Fox, from the Pew Internet Project, reminded listeners of the growth in http://blog.broadband.gov/?p=145 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Connected Nation Isn?t Winning Fans, But Is Winning Business, Gigaom We?ve been hard on the federal government for the disconnect between its need to get out $4 billion in broadband stimulus money to areas without broadband and its simultaneous need to map the areas where folks don?t have broadband in order to determine the best way to allocate those funds. We?ve also reported on the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/AzaUj1MpaFs/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Kentucky Cable Companies Point Out That Connected Nation Isn't All That, Techdirt It's seemed like a foregone conclusion that the US gov't was going to hand over lots and lots of cash to Connected Nation -- a group favored by the telcos -- to handle all of the "broadband mapping" needed for a better national broadband plan. There have been plenty of concerns about Connected Nation's close relationship with the telcos, as http://techdirt.com/articles/20090825/0428055992.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute, CW Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137177/New_attack_cracks_common_Wi_Fi_encryption_in_a_minute?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifisecurity.htm Overreaction to cyberbullying not good: L.A. Times, Net Family News This is interesting, in light of the recent "skank blogger" story in New York: "Overreaction to online harassment," an editorial in the Los Angeles Times. It makes a similar argument about prosecutors' "remedies" for bad behavior online that I've made for bad online behavior in school communities: that the solution is not some sort of new add-on http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/08/overreaction-to-cyberbullying-not-good.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Collier & Magid's "Online Safety 3.0": A Refreshing Approach to Internet Safety, PFF My friends Anne Collier and Larry Magid, two of America's leading experts on Internet safety matters, have just released a terrific new "Online Safety 3.0" manifesto. Anne is the editor of Net Family News, Larry pens the "Safe and Secure" blog for CNet News, and together they run ConnectSafely.org. Everything they do is must-reading for http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/08/collier_magids_online_safety_30_a_refreshing_appro.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Another Good Section 230 Ruling: Forum Owner Not Liable For Posts, Techdirt It's good to see judges getting things right -- and more often than not, they're being both quick and smart when it comes to misguided lawsuits from plaintiffs against sites that host content, but don't publish it. The latest involves the owners of a bodybuilding forum website, bodybuilding.com, who were sued by a nutritional supplement maker, http://techdirt.com/articles/20090825/0415455990.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm FCC Not Spoiling for a Fight With Apple. Yet., Internet News FCC's review of Google iPhone app rejection marked the beginning -- not the end -- of the open access debate. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/IRZs4KZe2F4/3836236 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm New FCC Boss: We'll Defend Net Neutrality - Though vague positions and vague neutrality principles remain problematic..., dslreports We've been complaining that while new FCC boss Julius Genachowski has been doing a ton of interviews, he hasn't actually been saying anything of substance -- apparently treading a vague middle ground either to avoid upsetting either consumers or huge corporate constituents, or to keep opponents to looming plans fighting blind. Of course as http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/New-FCC-Boss-Well-Defend-Net-Neutrality-104123 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Genachowski: FCC Will Enforce Net Neutrality and Watch Any Violations of Principles, CircleID US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski today reaffirmed his commitment to network neutrality and said that the FCC will go after anyone who violates its tenets. "One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is that this FCC will support net neutrality and will enforce any violation of net neutrality http://www.circleid.com/posts/genachowski_fcc_will_enforce_net_neutrality/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Good-Bye, Humpty Dumpty?, PFF In my essay, "Good-Bye, Humpty Dumpty?", I discuss how a recent decision of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cohen v. U.S., 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 17677 (No. 08-5088)(D.C. Cir. Aug. 7, 2009) reaffirms that there is an important distinction between general statements of administrative agency policy and legislative rules. http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/08/good-bye_humpty_dumpty.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm U.S. lags other nations in Internet speed, CNET The average Internet download speed in the U.S. is slower than that in 27 other countries, according to a new report by the Communications Workers of America. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10317118-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm Another Poor Showing for U.S. Broadband Rank, Internet News Largest telecom union's "Speed Matters" test finds U.S. trailing foreign rivals, highlights regional disparities. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/7t6fSi_5fRo/3836346 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm U.S.A.: Dead Last in Internet Speeds, and Not Trying Very Hard to Catch Up, Peer Flow A programmer on a project I'm working on just moved back to Finland. He's got 30 megabits per second, and he could get 100 Mbps if he wanted to pay a little more. Meanwhile, back in the U.S.A., we're lucky to get 3Mbps through DSL or 8Mbps through cable. Anywhere in Japan you can buy 100Mbps for about the same price per month http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2009/08/usa-dead-last-in-internet-speeds-and-not-trying-very-hard-to-catch-up.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm How Many Domains Are Secured by DNSSEC?, Internet News InternetNews.com looks behind the claims to find out how many domains are actually secured. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/_bB8JcHPAIM/3836231 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm US Courts Now Say RECAP Is Fine, Techdirt Earlier this week, we wrote about how some Federal Courts were sending out misleading emails warning people about RECAP, the Firefox extension that would help make public domain PACER documents freely available. The warnings from the courts were scare tactics... but Paul Alan Levy spoke with Michel Ishakian, the Deputy Chief for IT http://techdirt.com/articles/20090826/0434376003.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Seattle Times teams with neighborhood sites, Lost Remote Through a journalism grant by the J-Lab, the Seattle Times has formed an editorial partnership with several neighborhood news sites, including our own Next Door Media sites. The West Seattle Blog, Capitol Hill Seattle and Rainier Valley Post are also included in the partnership, which aims to explore ways that major newspapers can http://lostremote.com/post/172283734 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Ofcom consultation on BT's NGN, Telecom Industry This report is very interesting. In it, the UK regulator OFCOM responds to changes in BT's investment plans in its network upgrade. In the process, the consultation does a good job in laying out the technology and regulatory implications not just for consumers but also for competitors. It is a bit technical but well worth the read if you're http://telcom2935.blogspot.com/2009/08/ofcom-consultation-on-bts-ngn.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/ngn.htm ACLU sues for information on laptop searches at U.S. borders, CW The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection unit for information on its policies related to searches of laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137173/ACLU_sues_for_information_on_laptop_searches_at_U.S._borders?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm A case for cyberwarfare?, Net Effect Finally, a book review in The National Interest offers a balanced treatment of China's cyberwarfare capabilities, a rarity for American mainstream media these days http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/26/a_case_for_cyberwarfare More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm Want Fast Internet? Don?t Live In the Sticks, Gigaom Delaware, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts have some of the fastest Internet access speeds in the country, according to a new survey by the Communications Workers of America, while Hawaii, Alaska, Montana and Wyoming have the slowest. In other words, there appears to be a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/YyhsyjAGrTc/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/dd.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom is Off-the-Record. Otherwise play nicely. 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