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SEC CHARGES TWO ENRON EXECUTIVES WITH FRAUD RELATING TO ENRON'S BROADBAND
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Former CFO Kevin A. Howard, Former Senior Director of Accounting Michael W.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A pioneering strategy to stem online child pornography is threatening Internet stability because it blocks Web surfers visiting innocent sites located in the same virtual neighborhoods as those peddling illegal porn, a prominent civil liberties group says.



You can read about it here..

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Civil liberties groups are using a long shot approach in an effort to get the Supreme Court to limit the government's power to spy, filing an appeal Tuesday on behalf of people who don't even know they're being monitored.


You can read about it here.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Leading experts on Internet security are skeptical that the FBI and other investigators will be able to track down the person responsible for last weekend's attack on the Internet.

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According to letters SBC sent out last week, the company believes that any Web site that has a menu that remains on the screen while a user clicks through the site may owe it royalties. In a recent NY Times article, AMY HARMON tells us about what SBC is trying to do. (NY Times article requires free registration)

»www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/busin···FT.html

A new “Broadband Expensing Act of 2003” has been introduced in the U.S. Senate aimed at providing an economic incentive for the rollout of last mile networks. Initial backers of the bill include Senators Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Orin Hatch (R-Utah), Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), Jim Bunning (R-Kent.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.)

»www.convergedigest.com/regulator···?ID=6121

Russian software developer, ElcomSoft, was forced into court by Adobe for developing software that only offered the potential for performing illegal acts. Read the story here: »zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-978176.html

»www.cnn.com/2002/US/Northeast/12···dex.html

»www.forbes.com/2002/11/27/cz_ms_···way.html

A recent NY Times article highlights one of the most severe crackdowns on file sharing yet. In cooperation with RIAA, the United States Naval Academy has confiscated 100 computers "from students who are suspected of having downloaded unauthorized copies of music files over the Internet." The confiscation comes shortly after RIAA distributed warnings to academic institutions nation-wide.

»www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/techn···USI.html

Microsoft's contender may not be far away from what the DOJ failed to achieve - competition. Bob Cringley talks about his views from the Pulpit.

»www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulp···107.html

»biz.yahoo.com/rc/020927/telecoms_fcc_1.html, opinions, comments, solutions?
I feel the access fees/leases/UNE-P and other items to help bring the competition need to be re-evaluated. The cost of leasing is much lower than investing in equipment/facilities, that is exactly what is happening and the ILEC's are forced to provide access as less than it cost them. And they still have to maintain their "last mile". The cost of leasing lines should be brought more in line with the real costs to the provider of those lines.

According to a White House news release, the President intends to designate F. Duane Ackerman, chairman and CEO of BellSouth Corp., to be Vice Chairman of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/20020809-1.html