CommunityDNS News Bits, June 17, 2009.
Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community.
Germany poised to impose police-run block list
Empowering German federal police, a new measure agreed upon by Germany’s two main political parties, will allow the German police to provide ISPs with a list of sites to be blocked. The police-provided list will contain the domain names and IP addresses of websites hosting and linking to child porn.
Removed from the future legislative language is the provision requiring ISPs to log every attempt made to access such blocked sites and the notify law enforcement agencies.
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China Making Green Dam Internet Filter Optional
Reconsidering its mandate, China now says the installation of the Green Dam software for Internet filtering will no longer be mandatory. The software’s setup files must be present on all computers, or contained on the PC’s installation CD, but the installation of the software is up to the PC’s owner.
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Broadband surges despite Meltdown
Despite recent economic problems broadband growth continues. With worldwide broadband connections reaching 429.2 million the pace of growth was actually higher that the previous quarter.
With China topping the list with 88 million broadband lines, the US follows with 84 million. France comes in 5th at 18 million connections with the UK following with 17.6 million connections. South Korea, known for its high bandwidth speeds follows the UK with 15.7 million connections.
As far as global broadband connectivity, DSL has 64.6% share while cable has 20.7% market share.
IPTV has had strong growth. 11.4 million subscribers are from Western Europe with 4.4 million in North America.
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FCC Chair Nominee: Broadband Deployment a Major Priority
Appearing before a Congressional subcommittee hearing regarding the FCC nomination proceedings for nominee Julius Genachowski, expanding the nation’s broadband network to rural and other areas that lack the service will be a major priority. As mentioned before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the nation’s broadband infrastructure should be available and affordable by everyone.
$7.2 billion dollars has been set aside due to the U.S.’ recently passed stimulus plan.
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Broadband adoption and prices increase, Pew survey finds
According to a recent survey, 63% of Americans currently have broadband to their homes, which is an increase over last year’s 55% level.
Of the broadband subscribers, 34% pay for premium services (up from 29% in 2008) and 53% of subscribers pay for basic services, a percentage that has remained stable.
Of interest is the monthly rate for both basic and premium subscriptions have increased. Prices are lowest in areas where there is broadband competition.
Within the US 7% still use dialup to connect to the Internet, down from 14% the previous year.
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Cyberdefense center will lead in education
The NATO-established Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE), based in Tallinn, Estonia, is more of an academic-type organization where one of its goals is to provide education on matters dealing with cyber security. One of the avenues of achieving this goal is through the Conference on Cyber Warfare that is being held this week in Tallinn by the CCDCOE.
The following is an interview with Kenneth Geers who is stationed at the CCDCOE. Continuing with their goal of education the next conference, scheduled for September, will focus strictly on cyber law.
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