http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=2008122708285811
Zambia’s leading ISP hacked
Saturday, December 27 2008 @ 08:28 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Zambia’s leading Internet Service Provider, http://www.zamnet.zm has been Hacked. The site was hacked Saturday afternoon and at the time of writing the site had not been fixed. The Hackers who are calling themselves 3RqU (Turkish) have changed ZAMNETs landing page. 3RqU Turkish are a known notorious group of hackers.
The hackers have gained unauthorised access to ZAMNET servers. According to the new landing page that has been put on ZAMNET, the hackers claim to have root access..... Most of the websites hosted by ZAMNET have been affected by this security breach and these include sites like Times of Zambia, Daily mail, ZNBC.
Source - Luska Times
[From the article:
According to some experts the old Apache server ZAMNET uses might not necessarily be the cause of the breach but it points to the lax in ZAMNETs policy on applying security updates to the software on their servers.
Oh the horror of riding your own petard!
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F27%2F1628212&from=rss
RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet
Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 27, @01:30PM from the court-documents-likening-the-riaa-to-vampires dept. The Courts Media Music
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes
"In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Boston case in which the defendant is represented by Prof. Charles Nesson and his CyberLaw class at Harvard Law School, the defendant has requested that audio-visual coverage of the court proceedings be made available to the public via the internet. Taking the RIAA at its word — that the reason for its litigation program is to 'educate the public' — the defendant's motion (PDF) queries why the RIAA would oppose public access: 'Net access to this litigation will allow an interested and growingly sophisticated public to understand the RIAA's education campaign. Surely education is the purpose of the Digital Deterrence Act of 1999, the constitutionality of which we are challenging. How can RIAA object? Y et they do, fear of sunlight shone upon them.'"
Probably a useful guide for kids. I noticed that they often choose TV movies based on the ratings. Anything not rated “R” was probably boring.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F27%2F1252255&from=rss
UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship
Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 27, @09:37AM from the since-the-aussies-seem-so-excited-about-it dept. Censorship Government
kaufmanmoore writes
"UK culture secretary Andy Burnham calls for a website rating system similar to the one used for movies in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. He also calls for censorship of the internet, saying, 'There is content that should just not be available to be viewed.' Other proposals he mentions in his wide-ranging calls for internet regulation are 'family-friendly' services from ISPs, and requiring takedown notices to be enforced within a specific time for sites that host content. Mr. Burnham wants to extend his proposals across the pond and seeks meetings with the Obama administration."
Seems there are several “economics of the Internet” articles today. Can you charge “by the drink” when others provide the same things for free?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F27%2F2010244&from=rss
Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids
Posted by timothy on Saturday December 27, @04:04PM from the defining-the-edge-of-invention dept. Patents Microsoft The Almighty Buck Windows
theodp writes
"Microsoft's vision of your computing future is on display in its just-published patent application for the Metered Pay-As-You-Go Computing Experience. The plan, as Microsoft explains it, involves charging students $1.15 an hour to do their homework, making an Office bundle available for $1/hour, and billing gamers $1.25 for each hour of fun. In addition to your PC, Microsoft also discloses plans to bring the chargeback scheme to your cellphone and automobile — GPS, satellite radio, backseat video entertainment system. 'Both users and suppliers benefit from this new business model,' concludes Microsoft, while conceding that 'the supplier can develop a revenue stream business that may actually have higher value than the one-time purchase model currently practiced.' But don't worry kids, that's only if you do more than 52 hours of homework a year!"
Keep in mind that much of this is protected by monopoly/regulation. When the natural gas and pipeline industries were deregulated, they found they had no control over their costs – fortunately they were monopolies...
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F28%2F079254&from=rss
What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting
Posted by timothy on Sunday December 28, @08:21AM from the what-the-market-will-bear dept. Cellphones Communications
An anonymous reader writes
"Randall Stross has just published a sobering article in The New York Times about how the four major US wireless carriers don't want anyone to know the actual cost structure of text message services to avoid public outrage over the doubling of a-la-carte per-message fees over the last three years. The truth is that text messages are 'stowaways' inside the control channel — bandwidth that is there whether it is used for texting or not — and 160 bytes per message is a tiny amount of data to store-and-forward over tower-to-tower landlines. In essence it costs carriers practically nothing to transmit even trillions of text messages. When text usage goes up, the carriers don't even have to install new infrastructure as long as it is proportional to voice usage. This makes me dream of the day when there is real competition in the wireless industry, not this gang-of-four oligopoly."
[From the article:
The carriers will have other opportunities to tell us more about their pricing decisions: 20 class-action lawsuits have been filed around the country against AT&T and the other carriers, alleging price-fixing for text messaging services.
... T-Mobile called Mr. Kohl’s attention to the fact that its “average revenue per text message, which takes into account the revenue for all text messages, has declined by more than 50 percent since 2005.”
This statement seems like good news for customers. But consider what is left out: In the past three years, the volume of text messaging in the United States has grown tenfold, according to CTIA — the Wireless Association, a trade group based in Washington.
Are some businesses recession proof? Or are some just doomed?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10129061-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
The Internet ate my business
Posted by Matt Asay December 27, 2008 7:07 AM PST
Amazon.com has produced yet another record holiday season. But it's Paul Kedrosky who discerns the significance:
The right way to think about these figures is in Schumpeterian terms: With retail sales down across the board, whose businesses are being destroyed here, and what is the future of physical retail? Amazon is merely goosing this process along, of course, and may not even end up being a survivor.
Every now and then, I see a business model that I think has no basis in reality. This is one of those. But I've been spectacularly wrong before...
http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/beta-zumbox-com-the-alternative-postal-service
Beta.Zumbox.com - The Alternative Postal Service
This new solution is described by the team behind it as “The alternative postal service.” This is a quite accurate way of putting the concept across once you learn about the basic premise: what used to be sent as paper mail can be sent without the paper. That is, the company has come up with a paperless postal service that takes into account every street address in the United States.
This is achieved by having a private and secure web page for each and every postal service address. In order to access it, all you have to do is type the street address on the home page, and your mails will be displayed as envelopes for you to click about.
On the other hand, mailing somebody through Zumbox is also a supple task. All you have to do is upload a Word document or a PDF and specify the street address of the recipient. The mail will then be sent electronically. [Why would anyone sign onto this service? Bob]
From the previous paragraph, you can see where the main difference with e-mail lies. To send someone an e-mail, you must know his e-mail address. When it comes to Zumbox, a street address will suffice. If we bear in mind that businesses always have the street addresses of their customers, but not necessarily their e-mail addresses, the uses of this new solution become evident.
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