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		<title>CircleID:</title>
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		<description>Latest  related postings on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:rights>Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
		<dc:date>2008-07-04T14:41:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Google Reacts to Pressure from Privacy Groups, Includes Link to Privacy Policy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last month, privacy organizations wrote to Google CEO Eric Schmidt asking the company to link to its privacy policy from its home page. Organizations say including the privacy link on the Google's home page is good practice and mandated by California law. On late Thursday, Google quietly changed its stance by adding a privacy link to its home page and with explanations posted on its <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-comes-next-in-this-series-13-33-53.html">main corporate blog</a> and its <a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/07/privacy-link-on-googlecom.html">public policy blog</a>. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_privacy_ink_added/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-04T14:41:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Google, Viacom, Privacy and Copyright Meet the Social Web</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/87390_google_viacom_privacy_copyright/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In all the recent uproar (New York Times, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/technology/04youtube.html">Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube</a>," Michael Helft, 4 July 2008) about the fact that Google has been forced to turn over a large pile of personally-identifiable information to Viacom as part of a copyright dispute (<a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/viacom_youtube.PDF">Opinion</a>), there is a really interesting angle pointed out by Dan Brickley (co-creator of FOAF and general Semantic Web troublemaker)... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/87390_google_viacom_privacy_copyright/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-03T21:51:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>law</category><category>privacy</category><category>web</category>
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			<title>VeriSign CEO Resigns, Company Founder In Charge For Now</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[VeriSign's CEO, William Roper, has resigned from the company and its board. Roper has been president and CEO of VeriSign for a bit more than a year -- he was named in May 2007 after VeriSign's previous CEO, Stratton Sclavos, stepped down for undisclosed reasons. VeriSign announced today that its board elected the company's founder and first chief executive, Jim Bidzos, as interim chief executive and president and named him executive chairman. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/verisign_ceo_resigns/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-03T14:55:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>dns</category>
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			<title>Google Ordered To Release YouTube User Data to Viacom</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday night, a federal judge ruled that Google must turn over YouTube user activity which includes videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames, to the media giant, Viacom as part of a long-running copyright infringement case. Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says: "The Court's erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights, and will allow Viacom to see what you are watching on YouTube. We urge Viacom to back off this overbroad request and Google to take all steps necessary to challenge this order and protect the rights of its users." However, according to CNET News, there is a heavy protective order in place that will keep individuals' personal information protected in this ruling. Update: PDF download of court order <a href="http://beckermanlegal.com/Documents/viacom_youtube_080702DecisionDiscoveryRulings.pdf">here</a>. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/youtube_user_data_to_viacom/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-03T10:48:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Lithuanian Government and Corporate Websites Attacked</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/lithuanian_government_website_attack/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of Lithuanian government and corporate Web sites were hacked and plastered with Soviet-era symbols and other digital graffiti this week in what appears to be a coordinated cyber attack launched by Russian hacker groups, reports Brian Krebs of the Washington Post. According to reports, Lithuanian officials did not directly accuse Russian hackers of initiating the attacks which are said to have come from foreign computers. However, iDefense, a security intelligence firm, based in Reston, VA, as linked the attacks to nationalistic Russian hacker groups protesting a new Lithuanian law banning the display of Soviet emblems, including honors won during World War II. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/lithuanian_government_website_attack/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-03T10:22:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>cyberattack</category><category>security</category>
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			<title>Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail CAPTCHA In Need of Urgent Fix</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/8738_spam_captcha_urgent_fix/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It's one thing to start efficiently registering thousands of email accounts at reputable email providers by automatically breaking their CAPTCHA authentication, and entirely another to build a business model on the top of it next to the opportunity to abuse if for your own malicious purposes. Which is exactly what we have here, an underground service that's selling registered accounts at Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and the most popular Russian email providers in the thousands. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/8738_spam_captcha_urgent_fix/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-03T09:46:01-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>security</category><category>spam</category>
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			<title>Post IPv6 Mandate Resulted in No Significant Increase in IPv6 Traffic</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A three-year-old mandate for IPv6 usage, put into place by the White House's Office of Management and Budget, went into effect June 30 -- an order requiring all U.S. government agencies to have the ability to transmit IPv6. But passing of the deadline doesn't mean that U.S. government agencies have actually begun using IPv6 for transit, reports Sean Michael Kerner of InternetNews. In fact, even with experts predicting that the current IPv4 Internet addressing scheme will be exhausted by 2010, the vast majority of all traffic in the U.S. remains IPv4. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/post_ipv6_mandate_no_significant_increase/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-02T20:54:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>ipv6</category><category>policy_regulation</category>
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			<title>Broadband Internet Adoption Stalls in United States, Says Report</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Broadband growth in the United States has effectively stalled over the past five months, a possible victim of the economic slowdown, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Some 55 percent of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection, or a broadband connection, in their home, according to the report, "Home Broadband Adoption 2008." That number compares with 47 percent of adult Americans with broadband in early 2007, and 54 percent in December 2007. Hence broadband growth over the previous 12 or 13 months has dramatically tapered off. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/broadband_adoption_united_states_stall/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-02T18:02:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>broadband</category>
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			<title>ICANN&apos;s New gTLD Process: Hype and Reality</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At its 32d International <del>Junket</del> Meeting last week, <a href="http://www.icann.org/">ICANN</a>'s Board <a href="https://par.icann.org/files/paris/ParisBoardMeeting_26June08.txt">approved</a> the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm">GNSO Council's recommendations</a> for the eventual addition to the root of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This means that eventually, when the staff drafts, community comments upon, and Board approves implementation processes, those with deep pockets will have the opportunity to bid for new TLD strings... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_new_tld_hype/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-02T17:35:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>dns</category><category>domain_names</category><category>internet_governance</category><category>top_level_domains</category>
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			<title>Give Web Browsers Expiry Dates, Say Security Researchers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Computer security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM have suggested that computer software would be more secure if it were labeled with an expiration date -- similar to perishable food product. Firefox 2 is considered to be the most secure browser since 83.3% of its users worldwide are running the current version. The issue of browser security matters more these days because more and more malware is targeting Web browser vulnerabilities. Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities have been on the rise since 2000 and accounted for 89.4% of vulnerabilities reported in 2007, according to the study, which claims that a "growing percentage of these remotely exploitable vulnerabilities are associated with Web browsers." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/web_browsers_expiry_dates/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-02T08:43:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>security</category><category>web</category>
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			<title>Premium Geographic Domain Names Available at Moniker Live Auction at GeoDomain Expo</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Moniker.com today announced an initial list of premium contenders for a live and online domain name auction at the GeoDomain Expo, the world's largest geo domain conference and auction, July 10-12 in Chicago. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/87112_geographic_domain_names_auction/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-01T12:34:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>domain_names</category><category>top_level_domains</category><category>web</category>
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			<title>Cloud Computing Services Increasingly Used by Spammers to Host Their Junk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The spam attacks which occurred this weekend and claimed to have come from Microsoft, are reported to have used Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers. Brian Krebs of Washington Post's Security Fix has investigated this issue -- from the report: "...to spammers and scammers accustomed to paying for all kinds of Web services with stolen credit cards, Amazon's service is another place to host their junk, said Suresh Ramasubramanian, head of anti-spam operations at Outblaze, a Hong Kong-based outfit that has listed all of Amazon's EC2 Internet space on its spam blacklists..." Also reported: "Anti-spam group Spamhaus also has flagged a large swath of Amazon's EC2 Internet address space on its "policy blocklist," which subscribers use to block e-mail from dynamic Internet addresses..." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/cloud_computing_services_spammers/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-01T10:52:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>security</category><category>spam</category><category>web_hosting</category>
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			<title>U.S. Military Wants to Patrol the Internet</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web. "If someone wants to blow us up, we want to know about it," Robert Hembrook, the deputy intelligence chief of the U.S. Army's Fifth Signal Command in Mannheim, Germany, told United Press International. "The purpose of the services will be to identify and assess stated and implied threat, antipathy, unrest and other contextual data relating to selected Internet domains," says the solicitation. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/us_military_patrol_internet/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-06-30T14:50:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>cyberattack</category><category>security</category>
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			<title>IPv6 and MEID&apos;s&#8230; Stop Choking on 32 Bits</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Both the Internet and North American cellphones are choking under a 32 bit limitation and reactions from protagonists involved in both cases offer striking similarities. 1983 saw the debut of IPv4 and North American mobile telephony started in earnest with Bell's analog AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service). Responding to the need to uniquely identify the growing number of mobile devices in order to bill their owner, the FCC ordered that handsets be equipped with a unique identification number embedded on a chip. This became the 32 bit ESN... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/86302_ipv6_meids_stop_choking_32_bits/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-06-30T14:03:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>ipv6</category><category>mobile</category><category>wireless</category>
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			<title>Wi&#45;Fi Alliance Now Certifying Devices for Voice Over Wi&#45;Fi Applications</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The <a href="http://www.wi-fi.org">Wi-Fi Alliance</a> has announced today its plans to make voice a part of Wi-Fi networks, and has <a href="http://www.wi-fi.org/pressroom_overview.php?newsid=695">introduced</a> a program to certify products. According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Voice-Personal stamp of approval means a product is capable of making or handling good-quality voice calls in the home or a small office environment. Access points, wireless routers, handsets and laptops can all be tested and certified. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/wi_fi_alliance_certifying_voice_over/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-06-30T09:08:01-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>voip</category><category>wireless</category>
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