From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Tue 30 Aug 2005 - 09:57:42 EEST
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NSF Gives Peek at Plans to Overhaul Internet
eDonkey Benefits from BitTorrent Crackdown
Computers in Schools, but Not Always for Teaching
Two Men Nabbed in Worm Investigation
NSF GIVES PEEK AT PLANS TO OVERHAUL INTERNET
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given a glimpse of a proposed
initiative to redesign the Internet. Though short on details and
currently without funding, the project, called the Global Environment
for Networking Investigations, is intended to take a clean-slate
approach to designing a new Internet, one that addresses some of the
major shortcomings of the current Internet, including security and the
growing numbers of individual devices that connect to the network.
Increasing transfer speeds is not one of the project's goals. Leonard
Kleinrock, computer scientist at UCLA and one of the developers of
Arpanet, precursor to the current Internet, noted that early developers
of the Internet did not anticipate its current reach and had no reason
to include security as a primary concern. In addition, the network was
not designed to accommodate the vast numbers of mobile and wireless
devices, as well as remote sensors, that now vie for Internet space.
The NSF is seeking participation from other government agencies and
from other countries for the project.
New York Times, 29 August 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/technology/29internet.html
EDONKEY BENEFITS FROM BITTORRENT CRACKDOWN
A new study by research firm CacheLogic suggests that the recent
crackdown on BitTorrent P2P sites has merely shifted illegal file
trading to eDonkey, which now has as many users as BitTorrent in the
United States, China, Japan, and Britain. It is the leading P2P service
in South Korea, Italy, Spain, and Germany. CacheLogic estimates that as
much as 60 percent of global Internet traffic is attributable to P2P
file sharing, and before the crackdown, BitTorrent represented up to
one third of total Internet traffic. Andrew Parker, chief technology
officer of CacheLogic, said the recent upswing of activity on eDonkey
"is almost assuredly a result of the increased legal action toward the
once-ignored BitTorrent." Parker also noted that the recent U.S.
Supreme Court decision against Grokster has not resulted in a decline
of file sharing. Parker said, "This cat and mouse game [between P2P
services and entertainment industries] will continue."
CNN, 29 August 2005
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/29/technology/piracy_crackdown.reut/
COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS, BUT NOT ALWAYS FOR TEACHING
A new study indicates that computer usage by U.S. schoolteachers is
rising, though technology is more frequently used for administrative
purposes than for teaching. The study, conducted by Scholastic
subsidiary Quality Education Data, found that 70 percent of teachers
communicate with parents using e-mail and that a majority use computers
for tasks such as attendance, according to CDW Government. Just 54
percent said they have incorporated technology into their teaching, and
more of those who use technology in teaching are at the elementary
level than in middle or high schools. Teaching with technology appears
to be correlated with training: 85 percent of respondents said they
have received training in applications such as the Internet, word
processing, and e-mail, while 27 percent said they have had little or
no instruction in how to include computers in their teaching.
CNET, 29 August 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5844057.html
TWO MEN NABBED IN WORM INVESTIGATION
Two men have been arrested in connection with an investigation into the
Zotob worm, which surfaced in August and took advantage of a flaw in
the Microsoft operating system. The worm affected computers at
organizations including The New York Times, ABC, CNN, the Associated
Press, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. According to
Louis M. Riegel, assistant director for cyber crimes at the FBI, Farid
Essebar was arrested in Morocco, and Atilla Ekici was arrested in
Turkey. Riegel said that Ekici had paid Essebar to write the worm, and
the pair are also suspected of writing the Mytob worm, which was
released in February. Zotob is able to infect computers even if users
do not open any applications. As a result, some users are struck by the
worm without knowing about it. Still, experts believe the damage from
the worm has been relatively minor, given that the operating system
most affected, Windows 2000, is more than five years old and that most
organizations quickly patched the flaw that Zotob exploits.
San Jose Mercury News, 27 August 2005
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12488476.htm
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