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Interesting Article (FWD)
by no1special 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

Why to Secure Your Computer Network ----------------------------------- There has been a great deal of talk about network security over the past several years. Almost all of this talk has been about the "how" aspect of network security - which is to say the practical steps required to prevent malicious individuals from damaging the structure and function of computer networks. Comparatively little has been said about the "why" aspect of computer security. There has been comparatively little discussion of what, in particular, makes our networks worth protecting and why we want to maintain the large, complex, and vulnerable network that the Internet has become. In looking into the subject of network infrastructure, security, and architecture I slowly began to understand what Cliff Stoll (author of the book Cukoo's Egg) meant when he said the following: "So long as you think of someone ripping you off as a 'penetrator', you'll never make any progress. As long as they remained impersonal and detatched, the NSA people would never realize that this wasn't just a computer being penetrated, but a community was being attacked. ...I'd never solve the problem until I got involved; until I worried about the cancer patients who might be injured by this guy; until I became angry that this hacker was directly threatening all of us." (Cliff Stoll -- Cuckoo's Egg p. 279) From my perspective as both a user and as an administrator of computer networks, The most powerful ability of computer networks is their ability to bring people together. The explosive growth in the Internet, for example can be largely attributed to the desire for people to communicate inexpensively over long distances. The "killer app" of the Internet is not, from my perspective, the World Wide Web, but rather electronic mail. Most of what is being done on the Web could just have easily been done through other means, but there is no real replacement for e-mail. Internet e-mail has become, over a very short span of years, one of the de-facto standard means of communications both in the business world and in our personal lives. Every time someone new gets an e-mail account, it is another reason to use e-mail. The more people have e-mail the more valuable the network becomes. I believe that these personal connections are what makes the Internet and the various intranets valuable. From this perspective anything that destroys or reduces our ability to communicate makes these networks less valuable. To state this more clearly, it is my belief that networks create value by making it possible to quickly and safely communicate and share information. Anything which increases the ability of network users to share information quickly, easily, and safely will increase the usefulness and value of the network. Conversely, anything which decreases the ability of users to communicate and share information decreases the network's value. If this is true, the most valuable resource on a network is each user's trust in that network's ability to support their need to communicate and share information safely. In the long run, while electronic commerce is important, it is nowhere near as important as the system of trust which holds networks together. The most important thing to preserve is the willingness of people to trust each other - the willingness of administrators, engineers developers and other network users to share information with each other. If you accept this as true, it quickly becomes clear that the the the following five problems pose the most serious threat to Internet and intranet security: 1) E-mail viruses -- viruses which propogate by electronic mail make it more difficult for users to work with attached files. These threats make it more difficult for users to share their documents and research with other people who they may not know well. Right now every systems administrator is telling their users not to open attachments that they are not completely sure about - this undermines the trust which makes collaboration possible. 2) Trojan-horse software -- software which has hidden "back doors" or breaches a computer's security in a malicious way can have a severe negative effect on the ability of systems administrators and developers ability to exchange information related to their work. This in potentially a very grave threat against the open-source community - which depends very heavily on the ability of developers to trust each other's work. 3) Malicious Applets (malware) -- Malware creates distrust between web page authors and web users. A web user should be able to judge a website by the value of its content without having to worry about wether his browser will be attacked by the author's system. Creating distrust in this arena can have devestating effects on the usefulness of the Internet. 5) UBE (spam) -- Unsolicited bulk e-mail creates an indirect threat to the trust which makes e-mail useful. As spam becomes more common, filters are constructed which block it more effeciently. Unfortunately, it is impossible to cunstruct a filter which blocks a high percentage of UBE without blocking at least some legitimate mail. This will ultimately have negative consequences on electronic mail systems. 4) Cracking attacks -- Cracking attacks, especially attacks on e-mail, web and FTP servers, make it more difficult for people to attach private networks to the Internet. Every time the barriers to entry are raised, the value of the Internet as a whole suffers. As we enter the 21st century, computer networks are becoming a vital tool for reaching both business and personal goals. 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Web sites feed boom in sex trade and slavery
by An Metet 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

Published Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2001, in the San Jose Mercury News BY KEVIN G. HALL Mercury News Rio de Janeiro Bureau RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- At Agencia Roberta, a call-girl service in this tourist haven known for sun and sin, business is booming, thanks in large part to the Internet. Italians, Germans, Americans and other foreigners can make arrangements for services in advance, even before their planes touch down. The oldest profession in the world is getting a boost from the newest technology. ``It's globalization,'' explains Vanessa, a manager of the online escort service that charges men about $150 for three hours of pleasure. ``Everybody has a Web page. All the prostitutes know about this,'' says Betty, a freelance hooker in Rio who speaks over a rattling television and the laughter of children. She advertises her Web site in the Brazilian newspaper O Globo. The Internet gained early fame as a tool to arrange consensual sex via chat rooms. But it also has a more sinister function. It has become a tool that aids the exploitation of women who are tricked or forced into prostitution around the world. Digital cameras mean these women find themselves performing sex acts for voyeurs across the globe. With a few clicks of a computer mouse, a man can log on anywhere from suburban Maryland to rural Montana and be transported instantly to a bedroom in Thailand or the Ukraine. ``People can get so selective that they can now see a particular type of woman doing a type of act, and can do that from a global connection out of sight. Over time, it will increase the demand for real sex slaves,'' warned J. Robert Flores, vice president of the National Law Center for Children and Families in Fairfax, Va., and a former high-ranking official in the Department of Justice's obscenity and child-exploitation division. Law enforcement officials have known that women are often held against their will and forced into sex at Asian brothels or those controlled by the Russian mob, even in the United States. But now there is a new twist: The act can be sold around the world, Flores said. ``The Internet has made the sex market even stronger, and has even made it possible to market women around the world,'' said Flores, who says few Web sites are actually so bold as to advertise sex slaves. In Brazil, prostitutes have become prime targets for global sex syndicates, who lure them to foreign countries and then enslave them, said Carla Dolinski, a police investigator who leads anti-trafficking efforts in Rio. An estimated 75,000 Brazilian women work in Europe as prostitutes, many against their will. Dolinski said police recently received a complaint about a widely circulated e-mail trying to recruit Brazilian prostitutes for work in Spain. And there are well-documented cases of ordinary women being tricked into traveling abroad for work, only to be forced into prostitution. One of them is 20-year-old Beatriz, an ebony-skinned woman with a cover-girl smile. She left her home on the rough outskirts of Rio de Janeiro for the tourist island of Lanzarote, near the Canary Islands. She said she thought she would be part of a Brazilian dance troupe, but she ended up enslaved in Lanzarote, forced to perform sex acts for Spaniards and other tourists -- without pay -- until she managed to escape. Another Brazilian woman, who asked to be called Ana, said she was lured to Tel Aviv, Israel, two years ago believing she'd be a high-paid waitress. After she arrived, her documents were confiscated and she was told the icy truth: She was now an unpaid prostitute at the service of the Russian mob. She was put to work the very afternoon she arrived. Like Beatriz, she escaped. Her captors murdered one of her friends for not cooperating. Beatriz and Ana did not find out about their ``jobs'' through high-tech means, but Dolinksi fears that e-mail and Internet sites will more easily entice other desperate women to travel across the globe for promises of a better life, only to suffer similar fates. ``If a foreigner has a site offering $1,000 a month, the girls will go. It is difficult to investigate when it comes from outside of Brazil,'' Dolinski said. Authorities are still trying to document the myriad ways the Internet is involved in sex trafficking, but sites that are little more than marketing tools for traffickers are proliferating. One Web site, for example, features private chat rooms for men who may or may not be aware of the misery they are supporting. They exchange tips on brothels around the world where authorities say many women are virtual slaves. ``Almost all the girls have babies, but still, they are good!!! If you like the young, but legal, baby-faced Lolitas, you cannot get it any cheaper,'' says one man's posting on the site about his trip to Brazil. Another site notes that sex with Brazilian minors is illegal. Even so, it suggests that if ``you are under 50 and white, or even better, blond and blue-eyed, try flirting with any girl from 16 years up, in the street, near high schools.'' The site notes that the Brazilian government has cracked down on child prostitution, but it appears to justify sex with minors by noting ``they will either return home and get abused or roam the street penniless eating at garbage dumps.'' The Internet appears to offer countless ways to deceive and promote illegal activities. Flores points out that many sites offer to help find a marriage partner. But, he adds: ``If you go to those sites, the vast majority of them offer nude pictures of these women. The reality is that after you have been on the site for a few minutes, what you really are talking about is buying and selling of women,'' which is against the law. A Miami-based Internet site claims to be a matchmaking service, by offering ``mail-order brides'' and charging fees to introduce men to foreign women. The site, which features photos of women along with information about them, tells cybersurfers not to let worries about their own looks or a lack of money deter them from trying to contact women on the sites. ``If you make only $800 a month you will still be making many times more than the average Cuban worker,'' the site says. A site from Rugby, N.D., called Your Destiny advertises a buyers' market since, it says, there ``is an overabundance of young single women in Russia.'' Authorities are worried about these subtler approaches. Some are legitimate matchmaking services, but experts think many are a ruse for trafficking women into the United States. The Justice Department estimates that 50,000 to 100,000 women and children have been trafficked into the United States in the past few years. Lawmakers are considering legislation to grant special visas to women tricked into slavery who are willing to testify against their captors. There are no statistics on how the Internet's mail-order bride-sites have abetted trafficking, but experts believe they have and that traffickers will become even more sophisticated in using the Internet to reap profits from their trade. At the same time, anti-trafficking activists in Brazil and around the world say they will try to fight back with the very same tool -- tapping the Internet to warn women about sex slavery. Cristina Leonardo, a human rights attorney in Brazil, is trying to set up a Web site dedicated to providing information about known traffickers. Her ``Project Against the Trafficking of Humans'' would create a national and international telephone center where people provide tips to authorities. Through her Brazilian Defense Center, Leonardo also is trying to create online training programs, so police and the courts can share information around the world to better protect women from this modern-day scourge.

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ADL lauds Yahoo for switching on French Nazi case
by Declan McCullagh 03 Jan '01

03 Jan '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:37:25 -0500 From: "Rosado, Frances" <rosaf(a)adl.org> Subject: ADL PR - Yahoo! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Myrna Shinbaum (212) 885-7747 Todd Gutnick (212) 885-7755 ADL COMMENDS YAHOO FOR ACTION BANNING NAZI MEMORABILIA AND OTHER HATEFUL ITEMS ON ITS AUCTION SITE New York, NY, January 3, 2001 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today commended Yahoo! for its decision to take steps to remove hateful materials from its Internet auctions, calling it a "creative solution to combat the flood of Nazi memorabilia and other offensive and hateful items being hawked for sale to the highest bidder in their online auctions." Glen A. Tobias, ADL National Chairman, and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: We commend Yahoo! for its decision to ensure that hateful materials do not appear in its online auctions. We believe Yahoo! has come up with a creative solution to combat the flood of Nazi memorabilia and other offensive or hateful items being hawked for sale to the highest bidder in their online auctions. While there is no law in the United States against selling these items to the public, they were clearly offensive to many individuals who frequent the auction site. Yahoo! has recognized this public concern and demonstrated corporate responsibility by establishing guidelines for users who wish to sell items online and actively monitoring auction rooms for inappropriate or offensive content. Yahoo!'s decision means that the Internet provider is taking a more proactive role in enforcing its own "Terms of Service," which forbid the posting of content that is hateful or otherwise objectionable. The Internet is a great tool for education and communication, but it continues to pose complex issues, requiring Internet companies to walk a fine line between free expression and inappropriate or hateful conduct. Internet companies need to be continually on watch for hateful content and, when appropriate, to respond with similar solutions. The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

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