Brian Ribbon writes “In the latest sensationalist article about pedophiles on the web, the director of a Spanish vigilante organization has claimed that the internet ‘creates pedophiles’. While conflating pedophilia with child sexual abuse, the ‘expert’ quoted in the article incorrectly says that ’studies show that some pedophiles feel attracted to children from an early age, but the majority of them develop the tendency later on’; he then claims that ‘the internet can become a catalyst for people belonging to the latter group.’”

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TechDirt is reporting that the current block put on The Pirate Bay torrent site isn’t only relatively ineffective, but actually driving more traffic to the site because of the attention. “The news from The Pirate Bay appears to confirm this suspicion. According to The Pirate Bay’s new Court Blog, Danish traffic has not dropped since the implementation of the block. ‘…the number of visits from Denmark has increased by 12% thanks to IFPI,’ the blog post reads. ‘Our site http://thejesperbay.org is growing more because of the media attention than people actually coming to learn how to bypass the filter - our guess is that a lot of the users on the site now run OpenDNS instead of the censoring DNS at Tele2.dk.’ ‘We also started tracking some stats before and after the block. There’s no noticeable difference between the number of users from Tele2.dk before and after.’”

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Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton writes with his latest which starts “If I were writing laws such that I wanted everybody to concur on how to interpret them, I would use the software development life cycle: First, have lawmakers (analogous to “developers”) write drafts of the laws. Then a second group (the “test case writers”) would try to come up with situations that would be interpreted ambiguously under the law. Then a third group, the “testers”, would read the proposed law, read the test case situations, and try to determine how the law should be applied to those cases, without communicating with the law writers, the test case writers, or each other. If there’s too much disagreement in the third group on how the law should be applied, then it’s too vague to be a proper law. The only laws which made it through this process would be ones such that when they were finally passed, most citizens (the “users”) could concur on how to interpret them, in cases sufficiently similar to the ones the test case writers could come up with.”

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narramissic writes “It sounds like a headline straight out of The Onion, but security researchers from IBM World wide web Security Systems, Juniper, nCipher and elsewhere are warning that the use of data encryption could make organizations vulnerable to new risks and threats. There is potential for ‘A new class of DoS attack,’ says Richard Moulds, nCipher’s product strategy EVP. ‘If you can go in and revoke a key and then demand a ransom, it’s a fantastic way of attacking a business.’”

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If your blog client of choice is Google’s Blogger, odds are you’ve banged your head against a wall at least a few times wondering why Blogger can’t be a bit more like WordPress or TypePad. While Blogger is incredibly easy to use, it’s a bit more difficult to customize. But with a bit of work, you can tweak your Blogger site to near-perfection.

For example, while Google doesn’t offer a “recent comments” widget, Blogger buster has created a easy widget generator that lets you build and add a current comments section to your sidebar. You can customize how comments appear by choosing how many comments to display, whether to show the date or post titles, and how many characters to include in the preview.

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narramissic writes “It sounds like a headline straight out of The Onion, but security researchers from IBM Internet Security Systems, Juniper, nCipher and elsewhere are warning that the use of data encryption could make organizations vulnerable to new risks and threats. There is potential for ‘A new class of DoS attack,’ says Richard Moulds, nCipher’s product strategy EVP. ‘If you can go in and revoke a key and then demand a ransom, it’s a fantastic way of attacking a business.’”

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Filed under: Blogging, Web services, web 2.0

If your blog client of choice is Google’s Blogger, odds are you’ve banged your head against a wall at least a few times wondering why Blogger can’t be a bit more like WordPress or TypePad. While Blogger is incredibly easy to use, it’s a bit more difficult to customize. But with a bit of work, you can tweak your Blogger site to near-perfection.

For example, while Google doesn’t offer a “recent comments” widget, Blogger buster has created a easy widget generator that lets you build and add a current comments section to your sidebar. You can customize how comments appear by choosing how many comments to display, whether to show the date or post titles, and how many characters to include in the preview.

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alphadogg writes “Some of the Internet’s most powerful companies — including Yahoo, Google, PayPal and AOL — are brandishing a new weapon in the ongoing battle against e-mail fraud. DKIM is an emerging e-mail authentication standard developed by the IETF. DKIM, which stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail, grants an organization to cryptographically sign outgoing e-mail to verify that it sent the message. DKIM addresses one of the Internet’s biggest threats: e-mail fraud. As much as 80% of e-mail that purports to be from leading brands, banks and ISPs is spoofed, according to a report released in late January by the Authentication and On the web Trust Alliance (AOTA).”

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Pasting long multipart links can be an hideous waste of space when you’re speaking on IM, text, or Twitter. There are dozens of web services that will cut a URL down to size, but when you’re dealing with a group of links, it can still take multiple copies and pastes to share everything.

LinkBunch is a service that does exactly what it sounds care about it should do: condenses multiple URLs into one short address. Just paste them all into one text box, hit a button, and your new, slimmer URL is ready to go. Your days of sending just one LOLcat picture at a time are over!

When someone clicks on your LinkBunch, they’re directed to a page that shows all the links you included. This would be handy by itself, but the LinkBunch developers took the obvious next step and added an “open entire bunch” button, which pops each link into a new tab.

The major feature we found missing from LinkBunch was a bookmarklet to automatically bunch all open tabs, which would mean even less duplicating and pasting. We’d also like to see direct links to open an entire bunch, without first going to the page and clicking. Fortunately, it looks like the developers plan to release a LinkBunch API, which means these features might not be missing for long.

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alphadogg writes “Some of the Internet’s most powerful companies — including Yahoo, Google, PayPal and AOL — are brandishing a new weapon in the ongoing battle against e-mail fraud. DKIM is an emerging e-mail authentication standard developed by the IETF. DKIM, which stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail, grants an organization to cryptographically sign outgoing e-mail to verify that it sent the message. DKIM addresses one of the Internet’s biggest threats: e-mail fraud. As much as 80% of e-mail that purports to be from leading brands, banks and ISPs is spoofed, according to a report released in late January by the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance (AOTA).”

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