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Tuesday, November 04, 2003 |
SF Chronicle: Building a crash-test Internet. The new test network, called the Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research Network, or DETER, will contain lots of routers and switches imitating the complexity of the real Net. It won't be nearly as big as the real Internet -- the goal is to eventually hook up 1,000 PCs -- but the researchers hope it will be comparable in behavior. [Tomalak's Realm]
9:14:07 PM 
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Sterling's Back. From: die puny humans (permalink) Bruce Sterling returns to blogging. I am pleased.... [die puny humans] ...but without an RSS feed, at least as of yet. I don't know how to handle a blog without a feed - I need... [Andrew Bayer is Dreaming of China]
9:12:11 PM
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Bill sent me a pointer to
Internet Littered With Dead Web Sites, by Anick Jesdanun (AP). Here's a
quote that undercuts the hed:
But just as libraries wouldn't think of dumping musty,
out-of-print books, Web designers shouldn't rush to remove yesteryear's
castoffs, said Steve Jones, a communications professor at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.
I do hear pretty frequently not so much that there's deadwood, but that
sites go away without a
trace, Jones said.
(It is kinda weird to think of dead sites as litter. They don't get in my
way nearly as much as some of those quoted in the piece suggest they
should. Perhaps this shows the merit of
Eszter's research on how awful people are at searching the Web. See also
this earlier blinking of Dave Winer's comments on the story.)
2:09:33 PM
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Singaporean man to lose home after falling for Nigerian
Internet scam (AFP).
The man, who asked to be identified only as Eric, told the paper he had
lost almost 330,000 Singapore dollars (190,751 US dollars) he made in
payments to the Nigerian fraudster who offered him a share in a
non-existent 25-million-dollar inheritance payout. I'm almost 50. This
was my only hope of ever getting rich, the father of four told the
newspaper. I was greedy and I have to pay now for my greed. Nigeria
has become notorious around the world as the centre of a massive e-mail
fraud industry in which dupes are enticed to part with large sums of money
in return for handling large illegal money transfers from Nigeria.
Eventually, the money transfers do not take place and the dupes find they
have lost the money they paid out to facilitate the deal. In Nigeria, the
operation is known as a '419', after the part of the Nigerian criminal code
dealing with fraud. The present government has pledged repeatedly to crack
down on the criminal gangs perpetrating the scams but has yet to do so.
Eric told the Straits Times he received an e-mail from a man claiming to be
the manager of the Diamond Bank of Nigeria offering him a 30 percent share
of a 25-million-dollars inheritance payment, in return for which Eric had
to transfer first 17,000 Singapore dollars to a lawyer to handle the
transaction and then another 18,000 dollars for the attorney's travelling
expenses. He was then asked to come up with more money including a further
129,000 dollars, to facilitate the deal and flew to London where he was
shown a large amount of allegedly counterfeit money. After seeing the
money and coming so close to getting it, I was determined not to give up
halfway, said Eric. But he was duped. My wife said I use the
handphone so much that my brain is damaged. I think she's right. She said
my eyes can see only the dollar signs, Eric said. The fraud victim now
owes the bank 40,000 dollars and has borrowed 230,000 dollars from his
friends and has put up his house for sale. Eric said he was desperate after
his monthly salary was cut in half to 3,000 dollars this year. I thought
I could give my family a better life, but look what has happened now,
he said.
1:09:19 PM
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And the answer to
yesterday's wondering about Missouri's
No Spam law is that all the spam I forwarded to the address provided on
the Web site bounced as failed (550 Host unknown).
12:09:16 PM
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This day, last year, on A blog doesn't need a clever name:
- coverage of the Grichka Bogdanov and Igor Bogdanov affair, inlcuding
- links to Bogdanov papers (e.g., "Quantum fluctuations of the
signature of the metric at the Planck scale") and
- John Baez wonders: Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal
hoax?
- the Sligo Grotto of the National Speleological Society and Plato's Cave
- What rap lost when Jam Master Jay died
- Keeping Languages Alive
- and
Russell, studying David Allen's
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free
Productivity
9:08:41 AM
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Europe's new privacy rules for digital networks and services. As from October 31 EU Member States must comply with the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, which sets EU standards for the protection of privacy and personal data in electronic communications.
The Directive includes basic obligations to ensure the security and confidentiality of communications over EU electronic networks, including internet and mobile services. [Smart Mobs]
7:31:01 AM
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BNA News reports:CHINESE NET CASES RUN INTO LEGAL CHALLENGES
Several Chinese Internet cases involving the arrest and
detention of cyber-dissidents who post content online have
run into legal challenges. One case has been dismissed due
to a lack of evidence, while another case involving an
appeal of ten year sentences against four posters includes
evidence that several material witnesses have withdrawn
their original testimony.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031103/323/ecuvc.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031103/323/ecuf0.html
3:07:44 AM
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