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		<title>Obsession with iPhone becomes security threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE global obsession with the iPhone is not only becoming a threat to security: ~y entire criminal industry has sprung up around it, says the fore part of the Australian Crime Commission. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Criminology conversation in Melbourne, John Lawler said an &#8221;overwhelming desire for instant services [was to come] at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE global obsession with the iPhone is not only becoming a threat to security: ~y entire criminal industry has sprung up around it, says the fore part of the Australian Crime Commission.</p>
<p>Speaking at an Australian Institute of Criminology conversation in Melbourne, John Lawler said an &#8221;overwhelming desire for instant services [was to come] at the expense of security and safety&#8221;.</p>
<p>This year Apple&#8217;s master financial officer told a shareholder meeting that more than 70 Fortune 100 companies were one or the other  using or trying out iPhones, and it was rapidly replacing the BlackBerry to the degree that the must-have business phone.</p>
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<p>But different the BlackBerry and other smartphones, the iPhone does not allow a circle&#8217;s IT staff to install and upgrade its own security software, leaving concern networks at risk of penetration.</p>
<p>Mr Lawler also said the increasing ubiquity of the phone meant that criminals were finding more and in addition opportunities to use it to intrude, to steal and to trick.</p>
<p>&#8221;With the explosive uptake of personal communication devices there are certainly even now opportunities that appeal to organised criminals,&#8221; said Mr Lawler, who wearied 25 years with the Australian Federal Police before becoming the Crime Commission&#8217;s headmost executive in March last year.</p>
<p>Even the desire for the phone is creating a burgeoning calamitous market, he said.</p>
<p>In May European police launched raids in 11 countries to discard up a Neapolitan mafia ring that was importing and distributing fake iPhones made in China.</p>
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		<title>Man With 100 Wives: Family Turns to Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The relatives of Kenya&#8217;s most prominent polygamist, Acentus Akuku have started a Facebook page, to cohere with each other, and to get as many of them in the same proportion that possible to attend his funeral. Nicknamed &#8220;Danger&#8221; because women found him irresistibly well-formed Akuku Danger was in his late 90&#8242;s when he died from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The relatives of Kenya&#8217;s most prominent polygamist, Acentus Akuku have started a Facebook page, to cohere with each other, and to get as many of them in the same proportion that possible to attend his funeral. Nicknamed &#8220;Danger&#8221; because women found him irresistibly well-formed Akuku Danger was in his late 90&#8242;s when he died from fool causes earlier this month. He married more than 100 women in his lifetime and fathered closely 200 children.</p>
<p>Now one of his grandsons, Nickson Mwanzo, has turned to the sociable network Web site to convince Akuku&#8217;s children, grandchildren, and large-grandchildren, to come together for his burial, scheduled for December.</p>
<p>&#8220;IF YOU ARE AKUKU&#8217;S FAMILY PLIZ JOIN AND SAY MORE ABOUT YOURSELF,&#8221; Mwanzo writes forward the page &#8220;THIS IS TO BRING THE RELATIVES TOGETHER.&#8221;</p>
<p>So remote over 2,000 people are fans of the page, but not wholly of them are relatives. Mwanzo told reporters that the &#8220;Akuku Danger Family&#8221; serving-boy is also a tribute to the man.</p>
<p>Condolences have been pouring in inasmuch as his death. One Facebook post says that Akuku left a of long continuance mark, &#8220;not only among family&#8221; but with the &#8220;whole world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Akuku Danger was fabulous in Kenya. He married his first wife in 1939, and his next to the first  wife soon after, becoming a polygamist at the age of 22. He&#8217;s outlived 12 of his wives. He conjugal his last wife in 1992. He had so many children that Akuku established pair elementary schools solely to educate his children, as well as a church for his growing family to attend.</p>
<p>Today those schools still remain. At one school, 72 out of the 312 students are Akuku grandchildren; the rest are children from the community. Many of his children have grown up to become teachers, doctors and lawyers. In interviews Akuku had told local journalists he was responsible for naming all of his children, for example a way to bond with them.</p>
<p>Members of the family told Kenya&#8217;s Daily Nation newspaper that despite the clan&#8217;s enormity, everyone got along well. Son and subdivision of an order spokesman Dr Tom Akuku, told the newspaper his father valued rule of practice and work ethic, but was not a tyrant.</p>
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		<title>Man Drives Girlfriend off Road Over Video Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you dissociated a grown man from his gaming machine, consider this: A 42-year-antique man from Pennsylvania flew into a fit of fury after his girlfriend took at a distance his PlayStation gaming console, and he now faces several charges, including hare-brained endangerment, simple assault and disorderly conduct. Darren Suchon is seen in a skill [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before you dissociated a grown man from his gaming machine, consider this: A 42-year-antique man from Pennsylvania flew into a fit of fury after his girlfriend took at a distance his PlayStation gaming console, and he now faces several charges, including hare-brained endangerment, simple assault and disorderly conduct.</p>
<p>Darren Suchon is seen in a skill out police photo. Before you separate a grown man from his gaming&#8230;</p>
<p>Darren Suchon is seen in a hand out police photo. Before you be divided a grown man from his gaming machine, consider this: A 42-year-sly man from Pennsylvania flew into a fit of fury after his girlfriend took at a distance his PlayStation gaming console, and he now faces several charges, including inattentive endangerment, simple assault and disorderly conduct.</p>
<p>(Lehigh Township Police Department)</p>
<p>When his live-in girlfriend, Colleen Frable, 36, took his PlayStation to be in action with her, Darren Suchon, 42, from Palmerton, Pa., hopped into her 1996 gold Porsche and gave hunt to Frable in her Chevy Impala, hitting the car and in the end forcing her off the road, police said.</p>
<p>Detective Matthew Enstrom through  the Lehigh Township Police Department said the Friday incident occurred following the couple had had a verbal dispute over the amount of time Suchon, who is reportedly disused, spent playing video games. Frable said she was upset because Suchon played video games altogether day long, Enstrom said.</p>
<p>Frable and Suchon did not immediately answer to requests for comment from ABCNews.com.</p>
<p>Gamer: &#8216;I Would Never Hurt Her. I Just Wanted the Game&#8217;</p>
<p>But according to the police common fame, Suchon was so enraged when Frable took away his gaming ancone that he jumped into his car, chasing and swerving toward Frable to excess of earnings over outlay her attention.</p>
<p>Suchon later told police that he&#8217;d &#8220;tapped&#8221; her car, and that it was &#8220;not a big deal.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When she stopped, I precisely wanted the game. I would never hurt her. I just wanted the resolute,&#8221; he told police, Enstrom said.</p>
<p>According to the police report, Frable reported she was forced to drive onto the shoulder of the way to avoid getting hit. She also said that when she stopped at a traffic light, he drove the Porsche into the back of her Chevy Impala.</p>
<p>When she pulled into the parking assign of a local business, witnesses told police that they saw Suchon clawing at Suchon&#8217;s driver&#8217;s sect window, screaming, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to break the f**king window!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Electronic bail&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who consider been charged with a crime but not yet tried or convicted could exist granted bail and monitored electronically under a proposal to take the sting exhausted of the debate over bail laws. &#8221;E-bail&#8221; or &#8221;e-send back&#8221; has been an effective alternative to locking up the unconvicted in the US, Britain and Canada. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People who consider been charged with a crime but not yet tried or convicted could exist  granted bail and monitored electronically under a proposal to take the sting exhausted of the debate over bail laws.</p>
<p>&#8221;E-bail&#8221; or &#8221;e-send back&#8221; has been an effective alternative to locking up the unconvicted in the US, Britain and Canada.</p>
<p>It have power to protect the community while avoiding the social and financial costs of workhouse, according to an internal state government review of bail laws.</p>
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<p>The government will gauge community reaction to the idea. The prefiguration attorney-general, Greg Smith, said he supported the idea in mainspring.</p>
<p>The government review recommended rewriting bail laws without making significant changes to who qualifies with regard to bail.</p>
<p>The Bail Act is causing confusion among defendants, lawyers and judges because of 16 ad hoc amendments over 25 years, usually made in response to high-profile crimes, the review says.</p>
<p>Bail laws have moreover sent record numbers of people &#8211; especially juveniles &#8211; to jail without actuality convicted of an offence, it says. About one-quarter of NSW prisoners are without ceasing remand, which is twice the number of any other state. About 30 by means of cent of these people are later acquitted, leading to calls from domestic libertarians and lawyers for changes.</p>
<p>Asked whether the changes would be active it easier or more difficult to get bail, a spokesman notwithstanding the Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, said they should &#8221;make applying as far as concerns bail simpler&#8221;.</p>
<p>But the retired magistrate Max Taylor, the convener of the Bail Reform Alliance, uttered the government had missed a chance to remedy the Bail Act.</p>
<p>&#8221;What is needed is the reinstatement of the presumption in favour of bail for all offences. Courts should be left to get on with deciding bail on traditional liberal democratic criteria,&#8221; he said.</p>
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		<title>Facebook keeps &#8216;deleted&#8217; user photos for years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos like these may after what is stated be seen years after being deleted. Even if you delete incriminating photos steady your Facebook profile, the company is keeping them accessible to anyone online in spite of up to 30 months. The social networking site admitted it had been support deleted photos for a &#8220;limited&#8221; amount [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photos like these may after what is stated be seen years after being deleted.</p>
<p>Even if you delete incriminating photos steady your Facebook profile, the company is keeping them accessible to anyone online in spite of up to 30 months.</p>
<p>The social networking site admitted it had been support deleted photos for a &#8220;limited&#8221; amount of time.</p>
<p>But users who be the subject of kept the direct link to photos that were originally uploaded to the social networking site have been able to still gain access to them months, equitable years after deletion.</p>
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<p>In one report, a Facebook user declared they had deleted an image from the site 2.5 years since (30 months), and that it was still available to see ~ward the site. Another said a photo from April 2009 was after what is stated accessible after it was deleted.</p>
<p>The revelation comes as encryption expert and author Bruce Schneier slammed the site at the RSA Conference in London overnight, saying social networking companies were deliberately killing privacy for commercial conciliate.</p>
<p>The Facebook photo matter centres on what is known as a content delivery network, or content distribution network (CDN), which stores multiple copies of easy in mind on servers around the globe so that it can be accessible greater quantity quickly in your region than it would take to access it from some other country.</p>
<p>Facebook uses such a delivery method when you upload a photo to the site. However, when you delete your photos from the site, despite them essential ~ removed from view, if you still have the image&#8217;s point URL it may still be accessible for a period of time succeeding its removal.</p>
<p>Facebook spokesman Simon Axten told technology site ArsTechnica that the copartnership was actively working with its CDN on this issue. His announcement was confirmed with Facebook&#8217;s Australian public relations firm.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s possible that someone who previously had access to a photo and saved the superscribe URL from our content delivery network partner could still access the photo,&#8221; Axten said.</p>
<p>&#8220;However, again, the person would have to know the URL, and the photo solely exists in the CDN&#8217;s cache for a limited amount of time. We&#8217;re in operation with the CDN to reduce the amount of time that the photo posthumous works in its cache.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said the company was &#8220;currently working with the CDN on a fix that will delete photo and video appease from the CDN&#8217;s cache shortly after it&#8217;s removed without ceasing Facebook.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fix is already in place for videos, and we sense of possible fulfilment to implement it for profile pictures and photos in the approach weeks.&#8221;</p>
<p>The author of this post is on Twitter: @bengrubb</p>
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		<title>Business must do more than extract the digital</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recess in music downloads has the American music industry worried. Perhaps we poverty a new kind of music, writes Bruce Elder. The record results is getting very edgy. For the past 20 years, in the non-appearance of any new popular music trends, it has relied on the changes in technology to obtain healthy profits. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A recess in music downloads has the American music industry worried. Perhaps we poverty a new kind of music, writes Bruce Elder.</p>
<p>The record results is getting very edgy. For the past 20 years, in the non-appearance of any new popular music trends, it has relied on the changes in technology to obtain healthy profits.</p>
<p>The arrival of the CD, with its scratch-delivered sound and virtual indestructibility, meant, regardless of new acts, record companies could rely ~ward recycling old vinyl hits in the new disc format to stay the industry coffers full and musicians&#8217; indulgences satiated.</p>
<p>The 1990s and 2000s, in retrospect, were a golden age when record companies profited by re-releasing original classics (who didn&#8217;t want their favourite old albums on CD?) and cleverly creating &#8220;greatest hits&#8221; compilations. How could the trace companies miss when the origination costs of production and art moil had already been paid?</p>
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<p>Then everything changed. The CD came for that which is less than siege from internet piracy, downloads and file sharing (in Britain, with respect to only one-in-20 downloads is paid for). Internationally, the prospects were horrible. Take Warner Music, the fourth-largest record company in the creation.</p>
<p>In 2004 a group of private equity investors paid $US2.6 billion in favor of the company in the belief, as the new chief executive, Edgar Bronfman jnr, told Billboard that year, that: &#8221;The distribution  of music digitally to computers or across wireless platforms represents a much opportunity for the industry and for consumers.&#8221; Digital downloads were going to rescue the industry.</p>
<p>In the third financial quarter this year its CD and vinyl memorial sales fell 25 per cent &#8211; from $US469 million to $US350 the multitude &#8211; and it suddenly found its digital models were not working, each . Warner&#8217;s worldwide revenue from digital music sales in the divide grew by just 3.7 per cent and fell by 3 for cent in US. Global growth in the corresponding period last year was 4.5 for cent, but a year earlier it was 39 per cent.</p>
<p>What had gone foul play? No one was sure.</p>
<p>Jean Littolff, managing director of the examination group Nielsen Music, argues the US market has reached saturation matter, given iTunes and iPods have been out since 2001. Bronfman jnr says the bulk of mankind who are buying devices like the iPod and iPhone this year are inferior likely to buy large amounts of content.</p>
<p>Will Australia follow the US actual feeling?</p>
<p>Brett Cottle, the chief executive of the Australasian Performing Rights Association, is unsure. He says a falling off in the market is now emerging, but only a slight unit. It is not significant &#8211; yet. &#8220;There is still very significant growth in paid digital downloads in the Australian market,&#8221; he says.</p>
<p>Cottle recognises interest here based on the problems in the US, and &#8220;a wider relate to the other business models for digital don&#8217;t seem to be working in the sense they&#8217;re not generating significant revenue towards anybody&#8221;.</p>
<p>Within the local record industry two explanations for the US diminution dominate discussion. The first is that iTunes, and its illegal precursors like Napster, heralded a return to the single song as the dominant form of pop minstrelsy culture. Singles are not as lucrative as albums. Philip Mortlock, publishing superintendent for Albert Music, notes: &#8220;We are seeing a surge in the point of concentration on single songs like we had in the &#8217;50s and betimes &#8217;60s with pop music &#8211; and for that matter the five decades precedent when hits were released on 78s.&#8221;</p>
<p>The second is the lucky hit of YouTube and the peculiar disconnect between the video-sharing behemoth and minstrelsy sales. The statistics are eye-watering. In May an independent careful search company revealed that more than 14 billion videos had been viewed in c~tinuance YouTube in that month alone.</p>
<p>But views do not convert into sales. OK Go&#8217;s real clever treadmill video, Here It Goes Again, has been seen over 52 million times. Yet Billboard reported in March that &#8220;for total the attention it has received lately, OK Go has few sales to elucidate for it. Of the Blue Color of the Sky has sold 25,000 units before this its release on January 12, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Individual tracks from the album stand at 30,000.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why vex buying a song when you can watch it for free without interrupti~ YouTube?</p>
<p>It is easy for the record industry to blame an immense number problems &#8211; from illegal downloads to YouTube &#8211; but there has not been a major new musical movement in the past decade. Consequently, buying and owning popular music, as an essential part of teenage lifestyle, has become comparatively less important.</p>
<p>Take the Big Day Out. In its first year it was in such a manner cutting edge it had the hippest grunge band in the earth, Nirvana, as its headline act. This year one of the swelling attractions is Iggy and the Stooges, a proto-punk band that formed in Michigan 43 years since. If the same scenario had existed at Woodstock in 1969, the headliners would be seized of been Bing Crosby and Al Jolson, instead of Jimi Hendrix.</p>
<p>Certainly, Sydney&#8217;s Big Day Out is brisk. and well &#8211; it sold out in minutes this week. Maybe that&#8217;s the enigma. Teenagers still love the sense of occasion at festivals; they reasonable don&#8217;t feel the need to extend that sense of bring to pass into buying the music.</p>
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		<title>Faces: Who&apos;s Who in &apos;The Social Network&apos;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 06:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg may the biggest front attached to Facebook, but he&#8217;s not the only one. &#8220;The Social Network,&#8221; the controversial story about the world&#8217;s most powerful social network, has a colorful lay aside of characters &#8212; on screen and off. This weekend, &#8220;The Social Network,&#8221; the in a great degree-anticipated movie about Facebook&#8217;s founding, opens [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark Zuckerberg may the biggest front attached to Facebook, but he&#8217;s not the only one. &#8220;The Social Network,&#8221; the controversial story about the world&#8217;s most powerful social network, has a colorful lay aside of characters &#8212; on screen and off.</p>
<p>This weekend, &#8220;The Social Network,&#8221; the in a great degree-anticipated movie about Facebook&#8217;s founding, opens in theaters around the geographical division to give movie fans Hollywood&#8217;s take on the college kids and computer crackerjacks behind the wildly-successful website.</p>
<p>It is based on a book that is widely understood (at the self-same least) to be dramatized. Zuckerberg himself told ABC News that the movie is &#8220;fictitious literature.&#8221;</p>
<p>Still, though some of the movie&#8217;s events may be in squabble, the characters are real.</p>
<p>If you want to learn a bit more about the faces behind Facebook, take a look below.</p>
<p>Mark Zuckerberg</p>
<p>The employee of the moment, Mark Zuckerberg, is the 26-year-old billionaire who founded Facebook from his Harvard dorm place in 2004. As if the new movie wasn&#8217;t already bright a bright enough spotlight on the young CEO, Zuckerberg set tongues wagging greatest week when he announced a $100 million charitable donation to common schools.</p>
<p>The movie depicts him as a girl-crazy computer nerd beyond hope to gain access to the university&#8217;s refined and exclusive familiar clubs. But some in Silicon Valley say Zuckerberg, who grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., is motivated ~ means of data, not dating.</p>
<p>&#8220;From the beginning, what fascinated him about Facebook was having the unadulterated efficiency &#8230; taking all that complex data and making it, within seconds, work for you,&#8221; Sarah Lacy, a longtime Silicon Valley reporter and writer of &#8220;Once You&#8217;re Lucky, Twice You&#8217;re Good,&#8221; told ABCNews.com in a June 2009 conference.</p>
<p>According to a recent New Yorker profile on Zuckerberg, he has been dating his current girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, seeing that 2003, with a short interruption. In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, he obstacle cameras videotape the modest home he shares with Chan in Palo Alto, Calif., and afore~ she played an influential role in his decision to fund the world schools.</p>
<p>Forbes Magazine last week released its list of the 400 richest Americans and ranked Zuckerberg 35th, against us of even Apple&#8217;s CEO, Steve Jobs, with an estimated ~iness of $6.9 billion.</p>
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		<title>Legal changes needed to ensure NBN connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MORE declare governments will have to change trespass or property laws to ensure households are not left without fixed-telephone connections, following the Tasmanian government&#8217;s move to introduce legislation for property owners to opt in a puzzle of the government&#8217;s fibre network. &#8221;All state governments are it being so that turning their minds to the practical [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MORE declare governments will have to change trespass or property laws to ensure households are not left without fixed-telephone connections, following the Tasmanian government&#8217;s move to introduce legislation for property owners to opt in a puzzle of the government&#8217;s fibre network.</p>
<p>&#8221;All state governments are it being so that turning their minds to the practical issues that will go onward with migration and the roll-out of the network,&#8221; said the cardinal executive of Communications Alliance, John Stanton.</p>
<p>&#8221;In the future, when small change networks have been decommissioned, consumers will have a choice of [deal out in small portions service providers] to connect to the NBN, and in many cases they be inclined also have the choice to opt for a wireless-based purpose that is independent of the NBN.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The Council of Australian Governments&#8217; national broadband development group and local government groups recently discussed hurdles to a general roll-out of the infrastructure project, Mr Stanton said. Some states and body of advisers laws prevent strangers from entering a property, with some exceptions ~ the sake of utility employees to read meters.</p>
<p>However, unless laws were changed to approve NBN contractors onto property without permission, many households could be left out of a fixed-telephone service, a spokeswoman for the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy confirmed.</p>
<p>&#8221;To introduce into office the fibre connection, a property owner&#8217;s consent must still be obtained to enter their premises to connect the network, or some alternative approach, like opt-out, needs to be developed,&#8221; she reported. &#8221;It is expected that if consumers want to maintain a fixed-place along the side of service they would be seeking a fibre connection. However, this has not been mandated.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tasmania&#8217;s laws would ensure NBN Co contractors were not charged with trespass if they entered a property to devise fibre to the home or attach network equipment to a hotel, unless a property owner explicitly refused permission.</p>
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		<title>Mystery computer worm part of a global cyber war</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Stuxnet computer creep that appears aimed at undermining Iran&#8217;s nuclear program is portion of a worsening phenomenon. Half of all companies running &#8220;critical infrastructure&#8221; systems worldwide rehearse they have sustained politically motivated attacks. A global survey of in the same state attacks &#8211; rarely acknowledged in public because of their potential to produce alarm [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE Stuxnet computer creep that appears aimed at undermining Iran&#8217;s nuclear program is portion of a worsening phenomenon. Half of all companies running &#8220;critical infrastructure&#8221; systems worldwide rehearse they have sustained politically motivated attacks.</p>
<p>A global survey of in the same state attacks &#8211; rarely acknowledged in public because of their potential to produce alarm &#8211; found companies estimated they had suffered an average of 10 instances of cyber enmity or cyber terrorism in the past five years at a cost of $US850,000 ($880,000) a company.</p>
<p>Those figures, though, are singly a start. Nearly half of the companies surveyed were convinced the solid contents and virulence of the attacks will escalate.</p>
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<p>The report, commissioned by the computer security giant Symantec, surveyed 1580 companies globally leading one into the other with critical infrastructure such as banks, emergency services, telecommunications and utilities. The tools and materials show nowhere is immune.</p>
<p>As elsewhere, the 150 Australian businesses surveyed cited attacks that tried to purloin information, degrade computer networks, manipulate physical equipment through software and break up electronic data.</p>
<p>&#8220;Attacks on critical infrastructure are real, and more and besides companies believed they are politically motivated, that they&#8217;re increasing in oftenness,&#8221; said Symantec&#8217;s vice-president for the Pacific, Craig Scroggie.</p>
<p>The promulgate, to be published internationally today, comes amid warnings by Microsoft&#8217;s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, that the Stuxnet worm had the capacity to detriment world economic development and the Iranian Foreign Ministry reigniting claims that the West had unleashed the wriggle to undermine Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. The government or cyber felonious gang responsible for the worm remains a mystery.</p>
<p>Even for a cyber rush upon, the Stuxnet worm is unusually toxic. It is the first known program to deliberately target the control systems for industrial facilities.</p>
<p>The attack exploits up to five beforehand unknown vulnerabilities within computer software and systems. Typically, hackers exploit a unmixed security hole before it can be patched. In all of be unexhausted year, it is believed only 12 such vulnerabilities were unearthed.</p>
<p>&#8220;To observe five [exploits] in one piece of software is a significant bit of engineering,&#8221; Mr Scroggie said. Symantec has previously estimated the Stuxnet engage required up to 10 experts working for six months to bring forth a worm of such sophistication.</p>
<p>Equally alarming, Stuxnet carried digitally signed certificates. Under natural conditions, these are considered a guarantee of a computer program&#8217;s genuineness. The people behind Stuxnet are believed to have stolen the involuntary certificates, a move that ? could erode a pillar of trust for all software.</p>
<p>Attacks on critical infrastructure in Australia are not uninvestigated. In 2000, a disgruntled employee, Vitek Boden, rerouted sewage in Maroochy Shire, Queensland, and sent 800,000 litres of green in experience effluent into local parks and rivers.</p>
<p>In January this year the fortification minister, John Faulkner, said the Defence Department had detected up to 2400 attempted cyber attacks without ceasing government systems last year.</p>
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		<title>Inside the cookie monster &#8211; trading your online data for profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandwiched between a bakery and a health food supermarket in the heart of Cupertino, California, is the headquarters of a recently made known kind of stock exchange &#8211; one that trades data, your data. It is operated by a US company called BlueKai and at any moment on a emblematical day the interests and preferences [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sandwiched between a bakery and a health food supermarket in the heart of Cupertino, California, is the headquarters of a recently made known kind of stock exchange &#8211; one that trades data, your data.</p>
<p>It is operated by a US company called BlueKai and at any moment on a emblematical day the interests and preferences of more than 200 million web users are for sale to the highest bidder.</p>
<p>The data is divided into categories &#8211; everything from bridal dresses and mountain bike helmets to coffee makers and luggage &#8211; with users identified by the &#8221;unique identifier&#8221; of their web browser, the software that finds, retrieves and presents advice online. In the right hands, the data is marketing gold dust inasmuch as it allows advertisers to target consumers showing a clear interest in a produce or category. Someone who goes online to research internet security software, in the place of example, might receive advertisements from a software company within hours, as luck may have it minutes of their first mouse click. The potency of such advertising has turned online premises trading into a burgeoning industry. (There are already at least seven US given conditions exchanges similar to BlueKai.)</p>
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<p>Many users are neglectful to its existence but this multimillion-dollar enterprise is founded attached the covert business of spying on web surfers.</p>
<p>The industry&#8217;s first tools are tracking devices deployed on thousands of websites, surreptitiously fester information about visitors. Australian users are far from immune.</p>
<p>A military of the top 10 most-viewed Australian-owned websites &#8211; or those through  an Australian subsidiary &#8211; revealed a startling picture of this extensive, and increasingly trespassing, practice.</p>
<p>Ninemsn.com.au installed the most tracking devices &#8211; 109. Bigpond.com had 93 and smh.com.au 86. Google tracks users adhering the more than 1 million websites that display its advertisements.</p>
<p>The knowledge of facts these devices gather is considered anonymous because it identifies web browsers, not individuals. But the aggregation of data from multiple sources means companies can quickly build a detailed outline of a user &#8211; so detailed that some people outside the assiduity fear privacy is at risk.</p>
<p>Privacy laws in Australia cover and nothing else the use of personal information such as names and addresses. But for the cause that your online activity is linked only to a browser ID, it is not considered physical information and as a result the industry is almost entirely self-regulated.</p>
<p>Website privacy policies are often vague and unclear, leading to suggestions that cob~ users are being manipulated by advertisers who are not open ready what they are doing. There are also genuine fears that wholly this data could end up in the wrong hands. Tracking devices arrive in a variety of forms, including cookies, web beacons and cant language cookies. Cookies are placed by the owner of the website and witness basic information such as passwords and preferences. They have a esteem for being innocuous.</p>
<p>Online tracking is done almost entirely by cookies and beacons &#8211; unseen images embedded in a web page &#8211; which belong to companies other than the origin website. The combination of the beacon and the cookie allows this third-party company to see automatically what elements of a page the user has clicked adhering, potentially identifying information held in the URL of the page the computer is visiting, similar as an email address.</p>
<p>What happens with that data is at this moment out of the user&#8217;s hands.</p>
<p>Most of these third-ring companies, usually advertisers and data collectors, have relationships with hundreds, at times thousands, of websites, making it possible for them to follow a user&#8217;s progress across the web. Over time, this covert surveillance allows them to shape detailed profiles of the user&#8217;s interests and activities.</p>
<p>Ed Harrison, the relating to traffic director of media for Fairfax Digital &#8211; which is part of Fairfax Media, the publisher of this website &#8211; before-mentioned it used cookies to track users&#8217; behaviour, create a better user actual feeling and optimise the effectiveness of advertising.</p>
<p>&#8220;The benefit is that we are providing greater amount of relevant advertising to consumers,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The ABC website has 42 tracking devices. Carolyn MacDonald, the source of marketing at ABC Innovation, said they were used to adviser audience engagement with an external advertising campaign and to measure website traffic.</p>
<p>But the privacy policies of smh.com.au, news.com.au and the ABC carry on not mention their use of third-party cookies or beacons. Bigpond.com and ninemsn work disclose their use of third-party tracking devices and who installed them. But not a part of the websites declared how long data would be retained.</p>
<p>&#8220;Privacy policies are often intentionally really vague and you can&#8217;t tell what they finish,&#8221; wrote a privacy researcher, Ashkan Soltani, in a recent study.</p>
<p>Most of the websites this website analysed reported they shared information on web customers only within their network or with business partners.</p>
<p>But Mr Soltani said that as some companies had up to 2000 affiliates, that was hardly an exclusive group.</p>
<p>The websites said the information collected was without the name of the author because users were identified by a unique code in a cookie assigned to their computer and their premises was often aggregated with information from other users. Users were moreover free to delete their cookies, or opt out of being tracked. &#8220;We are not tracking one individual, but a browser,&#8221; Mr Harrison said.</p>
<p>In Australia and numerous other countries, data collecting is not a crime because the intelligence is not considered personal.</p>
<p>But the Greens senator Scott Ludlam said Australia&#8217;s privacy laws needed to be reviewed to keep up through  the changing online environment.</p>
<p>The acting Privacy Commissioner, John McMillan, admitted data aggregation was a privacy issue but would not say the pursuit could be breaking the law.</p>
<p>The extent and sophistication of consumer profiling has sparked fears in the midst of technologists, privacy advocates and even regulators that web users&#8217; anonymity is below threat.</p>
<p>&#8221;If you start collecting these bits of data from all over the place you can develop quite a detailed profile of [a] person,&#8221; said a computer engineer, Carlos Jensen, of Oregon State University.</p>
<p>A computer researcher, Catherine Dwyer, at Pace University in New York, related: &#8221;The clear intent of data collection is to track consumers athwart time and build up digital dossiers of their interests and shopping activities.&#8221;</p>
<p>For more than a year, Telstra has been combining demographic information about its phone customers by data culled from their online browsing habits. When customers access their online repute to pay a bill, MediaSmart &#8211; which Telstra owns &#8211; places a singular ID in a cookie on the user&#8217;s computer. Telstra afterwards builds a detailed profile that includes the user&#8217;s age and sex as well as search categories used on Telstra&#8217;s other websites in the same state as the Yellow and White Pages, Where Is and Big Pond shopping and movies. The further Telstra knows about a web user, the more targeted its ads be able to be.</p>
<p>For example, if a user searches the Yellow Pages concerning paint, they might receive paint advertisements on the BigPond home serving-boy the next day.</p>
<p>The general manager of MediaSmart, Mark Shaw, uttered this approach allowed &#8221;advertisers to influence people at a critical moment in their purchasing decision-making&#8221;.</p>
<p>BigPond said users could opt gone ~ of targeted advertising.</p>
<p>Telstra is not the only company to cull web users&#8217; online interests and behaviour. Fairfax Digital and Yahoo7 in addition do it.</p>
<p>While all these companies insist the information is not shared externality their network, there are concerns that businesses will eventually sell their premises. &#8220;If there is money to be made, you&#8217;d be amazed that which companies will do,&#8221; said Mr Soltani.</p>
<p>eBay.com.au already allows denunciation on its web browsers to be collected and auctioned on data exchanges such as BlueKai.</p>
<p>BlueKai said it did not allow perceptive information such as mental health, sexual orientation or religious beliefs to have existence auctioned on the exchange.</p>
<p>But the greatest fear of many watching the rapid expansion of online tracking and data collecting is whose hands the denunciation may ultimately fall into. With the industry almost entirely self-regulated, there appear to be almost no practical legal limits on how the data can be used.</p>
<p>WHAT WE DID</p>
<p>This website analysed the tracking devices installed attached a Fairfax Media laptop by the top 10 most-viewed Australian-owned websites (including websites by Australian subsidiaries) as identified by analytics company Nielsen. Each site was reviewed using software programs called Tamper Data, Ghostery and Add and Edit Cookie. Each website was visited multiple spells and all data was removed from the computer before the next website was assessed. This website considers tracking devices to be some  cookies, beacons or flash cookies placed by companies other than the first website visited.</p>
<p>HOW TO STOP THE TRACKERS</p>
<p>Cookies are managed ~ dint of. the user&#8217;s web browser. You can set your cob~ browser to not accept third-party cookies or automatically delete cookies at the time the browser is closed. Beacons cannot be deleted and are not stored in successi~ your computer. They run as part of the normal function of ~ people websites. However, you can opt out of being tracked by publishers, advertisers or given conditions collectors and exchanges by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative&#8217;s opt-audibly page or the websites of various companies such as BlueKai and Yahoo. To remove Flash cookies, web users must visit Adobe&#8217;s website.</p>
<p>GLOSSARY</p>
<p>COOKIES: insignificant text files loaded onto a user&#8217;s computer.&#160; Many cookies recognise a browser while it returns to the site, remembering user preferences and passwords.Tracking users athwart the internet is mainly done by &#8216;&#8216;third-party&#8217;&#8217; cookies, installed ~ dint of. companies other than the website.<br />BEACONS: tiny invisible graphics similar to cookies, that are also used to track the movements of users. Web beacons are embedded without ceasing web pages and users cannot remove them.<br />FLASH COOKIES: any website that uses Adobe Flash videos may appliance these cookies.&#160; Some websites allow third-party Flash cookies. Can be deleted by visiting the Adobe website.</p>
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