Please try the URL privacy information feature enabled by clicking the flashlight icon above. This will reveal two icons after each link the body of the digest. The shield takes you to a breakdown of Terms of Service for the site - however only a small number of sites are covered at the moment. The flashlight take you to an analysis of the various trackers etc. that the linked site delivers. Please let the website maintainer know if you find this useful or not. As a RISKS reader, you will probably not be surprised by what is revealed…
SIGH. Don't we get enough of these in the newsgroups? This is yet another variation of the good-old Good Times hoax virus. Checkout http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html. The 'P' section contains an entry on this annoyance. As a general warning to everyone out there - Please do NOT pass along virus/trojan/etc warnings to ANYONE until you have discussed the matter with your sysadmin. Your sysadmin will likely know if it's real or not, and will be able to help you take proper preventive measures, and distribute the warning properly. I know you are trying to help by distributing this warning, but really, all you are doing is WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME! Thank you. [Similar rapid responses on the hoax also contributed by Michael Naunton <mmn@onyx.interactive.net> and Al Stangenberger <forags@nature.berkeley.edu>, who pointed to http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html Too bad we were not approaching 1 April instead of 1 Jan. PGN]
The newspaper called *China Consumers Daily* says that China plans to increase its controls over the Internet, which already include the requirement that all Internet users register with the police. In its war against pornography and "cultural rubbish," Chinese police detained more than 47,000 people and seized 320,000 pornographic products in the first ten months of 1996. Chinese authorities use the term "cultural rubbish" to include anything they consider unhealthy or politically suspect. (*Atlanta Journal-Constitution*, 27 Dec 1996, D3)
In RISKS-18.71, Jon Handler warns of the spread of personal information on the net, and gives the URLs of several suppliers of such information. A longer list is available from "The Stalker's Home Page" <http://pages.ripco.com:8080/~glr/stalk.html> It's a rather scary resource for finding people or information about them. --David Wittenberg dkw@cs.brandeis.edu
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