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RSS chatroomsStraw launches taskforce to tackle online child porn
News In achieving this end, the taskforce will also review internet content rating systems and implementing a 'kite marking' scheme for chatrooms that are deemed safe for children's viewing. The taskforce will be chaired by Home Office minister Lord... [29 Mar 2001]
BT caves in on peer-to-peer
News An email posted in various chatrooms reads: "A number of customers have complained about restrictions of service on peer-to-peer networking. BT has backed down on its controversial decision to choke the bandwidth available to heavy users of peer-to... [12 Oct 2001]
Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour
News England The English spend more time on the internet than in any of the UK's other nations, going online for an average of 12.4 hours on the internet, and 77 per cent of their time online is used to send emails and IMs, and visit chatrooms... [22 May 2008]
3G 'child porn' claims scare operators into action
News Children under 18 will be unable to use third-generation phones with unlimited access, effectively barring them from entering adult-orientated sites, including porn or gambling sites as well as chatrooms. [13 Jan 2004]
Women over fifty take to the Net
News However, he added: "It's inevitable that fewer groups of society will be left untouched by the technology because the Net is the underlying platform on which you do other things such as send email, go shopping and enter chatrooms. [28 Aug 1998]
Civil servant receives death threats
News Speaking at a recent conference, e-envoy Andrew Pinder admitted it was difficult for the website's moderators to strike a balance between free speech and reasonable behaviour in the chatrooms. A moderator on the government's flagship web portal has... [11 Jul 2001]
Virus with SOCKS appeal targets corporate PCs
Most corporate networks are set up to block your typical Trojan access vectors such as IRC and chatrooms. A new variant of the Bagle virus incorporates a SOCKS proxy and Web services technology aimed at bypassing corporate firewalls, security... [08 Aug 2005]
Leader: Stop self-policing
Leader both shut chatrooms, citing concerns they were being used by paedophiles. One of China's leading portals, NetEase, announced today it has shut its MP3 search facility, fearing it could be blamed for the illegal music files that such a search turns... [17 Aug 2005]
Gates and Brown: Tech transforming education
News Lectures will be distributed for free over the internet, students will hold discussions at a distance in chatrooms, and testing and accreditation will happen online for people anywhere in the world, Gates explained. [31 Jan 2007]
Comet 'world's first' protects kids online
News This will tell them about pornography and deal with it, and this will tell them about the dangers of chatrooms and deal with it. UK electrical retailer Comet has announced a 'world's first' which it hopes will safeguard children online. [01 Jul 2003]
AOL laid low by hackers, again
News Chatrooms: Your route to business success (LOL? AOL has admitted its ICQ instant messaging servers have been hacked for the second time in five months. ICQ users were greeted with a taunting message to systems administrators from hackers as they... [28 Jun 2001]
5 years ago... Wire-tapping laws set to cost UK ISPs millions
News The idea that ISPs should take a more active role in controlling the use of their chatrooms, with regards to grooming and the dissemination of child pornography was popular with many, but suggestions that ISPs hand over customer information to the... [20 Aug 2004]
Leader: WorldPay security wake-up call
Leader Just last week silicon.com warned how businesses are getting unwittingly caught in the crossfire of hackers in chatrooms launching DoS attacks on each other. Online payment service WorldPay admitted today it is still struggling to fend of a... [06 Nov 2003]
Net accused over 1,500 per cent rise in child porn crimes
News He believes that whereas with 'fixed' internet, accessed typically by sitting at a PC, children's usage can be monitored by parents or teachers, with mobile internet phones children can use them anywhere and enter chatrooms without similar... [12 Jan 2004]
UK teen accused over port attack part of "elite" hacking group
News Caffrey said he put the hacking group name up just to annoy other hackers and said the files were just "resource scripts" that allowed people to change the font and type of text in chatrooms and add more visual features. [14 Oct 2003]
