Internet War

In the age of information almost everything in the world changes very fast in compare to the past, for instance people's behavior, wearing cloth, relationship and friendship and even traveling .Most of the time, I really try to be optimistic and see every thing good and bright. Changing people cloths in the world can not be so bad if we think about how convenience and comfort they are . I am not worried also about how people around the world change their languages as far as I think an international language can increase better and easier understanding of people . But how much can we be optimistic? Do you agree with me it is crazy that many old civilizations forget all about fathers customs? Do you think Internet is the most guilty one to spread western culture and causes many young generations of old countries attract to the west ? If you are still optimistic as much as I was ,please look at online advertising of US and Europe products more rigorous than before. How about online games? Can you see any thing unethical and abnormal which is just acceptable in western culture? Soon, you will find that they try to dominate their culture in other countries slowly and subtly without any barrier or defence.In my opinion ,as I mentioned at the first line every thing changes in this age and one of them is how countries war. Obviously not too many soldiers need for battling and not too many weapons require. Computer programmers are their soldiers and online ads or games and many other tools replace with guns and swords. The most painful thing is there is not any horn to alert that the war start and enemies do not wear armor in which can recognize friends among enemies or enemies among friends.

Football, Internet and Racism

300 million people are estimated to access Internet in the world. Among them you can see racist , violent and extremist who try to learn about this new medium and use it for their purpose. Internet is a very strong tool for individuals, organizations and groups who want to reach new audiences and recruiting especially among young generation.In 1995 just one site on the Internet has racism activity ,then in 1997 the statistics increased to 600 and today unfortunately it goes up to more than 2500 sites.

Sports world also are used as a tool for racism. For instance some groups that link to the neo-Nazis and right wing extremist use Internet to spread racism behaviour inside and outside football stadiums.Football supporter sites are the most active party in racism and xenophobia . Furthermore, some players, managers and clubs also work in this part but their activities are invisible to all.

Cyberterrorism

Cyber terrorism means that terrorist's use the Internet and other telecommunication tools in order to supporting organizational activities and for gaining expertise to achieve operational goals.Is cyber terrorism a synonym word for cyber crime?

Although some criticism state that the phrase cyber terrorism is not a proper term as in cyber space they only can produce annoyances not terror, others believe the effect of computer attack is more important than tools that is used by terrorists like bombs. They also declare economic disruption, fear and civilian deaths can be considered as terrorism attack too.

But do not forget even terrorists use computer and Internet for the strategy of spreading their massages quickly and to repeat them until they have saturated cyber space.

Reference :

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=432

No More Bothering Comments

The lecturer of cyberlaw - Dr. Sonny Zulhuda- guided the class how to protect our self from defamation issues especially in our blogs.He pointed at two options that we have when one particular comment try to defame one person in our blogs.The first one is replying to that comment in order to reject it and showing the disagreement to that comment and making our self away from defamation others. The second item which he explained it as a easier way, is simply delete the comment. I think even though this kind of recommendation seems very simple but on the other hand can prevent many fundamental issues in the future. To proving how subtle ways they are, I have to show you this case which happened earlier in Dubai.

A UAE online magazine has to shut down for one month and ordered to pay Dh10,000 in damages for defamation.The case is about an article published by the magazine under the title "Abu Dhabi TV: Emirate TV only in name", But the case was not related to an article by the editor or the journalist, and was only about comments posted by readers. The judge said comments should were replied or the website manager should deleted them.The web manager said the huge number of comments on the article demonstrated the interest of visitors in the subject, and also demonstrated that it was hard for them to carefully read all the comments.

So after reading this case do you agree with me we should be more careful listeners especially to the lecturer?!

Reference of news:

http://gulfnews.com/

A Defamation Case

Today, in cyberlaw class we learnt about defamation( damaging one person's reputation by publishing false communication). For being sure to understand all aspects of defamation, I searched about latest case related to this issue. Here is the interesting case that I found.

One of the ex-employee of Rite Aid Company sued the company and online employee screening (ChoicePoint) because of defamation.

The story started when he fired because the company discovered the loss of more than $7,000 worth of cash and merchandise and was suspected to him.Then the company sent all information to the ChoicePoint.

The employee who claimed himself innocent ,could not find any other jobs because of now-spotty background.But the firm said every thing about him was truth so it can not be liable.

Now, I can remember the four elements of the defamation which the lecturer explained them in the class. He also emphasized all of these elements are necessary in order to establish a case in defamation for the plaintiff:
1. it must be false;
2. the statements must be defamatory in the sense that it lowers the plaintiff’s reputation;
3. it must refer to the plaintiff; and
4. it must be published.

Reference of news:

http://www.hrtechnews.com/

Frauds do not discriminate me and you , my dear classmates

Online attacks include phishing, pharming and Trojans is one of the most organized crime in recent decades. High education institutes, universities and colleges also are targeted by cyber criminals.But what is wealthy in colleges website?

Attackers mostly focus on accessing the log in credentials which be used by students to enter in their personal university page. This credentials compass of students user names and passwords. After accessing to students' information two possibility may occur.

Each student's personal profile consist of many important data such as students loans and banking account, credit card (mostly used for paying tuition fees) and also personal information such as date of birth and mail address.So the first possibility is stealing these data.

The second possibility is frauds use these information to spreed more spams because an email which send by university usually do not identify as a spam also it may be enclosed by students.

So I suggest to all students specially my dear classmates to be careful more than before. Frauds do not discriminate me and you.

Online Governance

Who knows me and you in cyberspace?and how? Have you ever thought about it? Is there anything like a Yellow Book in the internet that records all numbers and addresses?If you want to find any one from the Internet your task is typing his address or name into your computer. Of course, the address is unique (has to be) therefore, the computer guides you to the exact person that you target.But the question is , is there any one or any organization that is responsible for this case? If any conflict happens who can solve it and base on which regulation?Following are some information that I found in order to answering to these questions.

In 1998, the U.S Department of Commerce managed to creation a nonprofit regulatory body with responsibility of administration of the Internet name and address. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers established in response. According to the ICCAN website ,ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet.ICCAN also claimed in its website that it helped design and implement a low-cost system for resolving disputes over domain name ownership.

For more information please look at the ICCAN website :http://www.icann.org/