Rattled by cyber attacks, govt to tighten grip on Net
August 16, 2011 by admin
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Private messages of millions on social networking sites, such as Facebook, could be monitored and stored on a big-brother database, according to new plans being mulled by India to bolster its cyber defences.
Indians moved up two slots this year to become the world’s third-largest
Facebook community, according to insidefacebook.com.
According Milind Deora, the minister of state for information technology, the department of telecommunications has now been asked by the home ministry to ensure “effective monitoring of social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter”.
With 10,315 hacking attempts in 2010, India is seeking to deploy a raft of stringent and — possibly unpopular — measures to monitor the web. All new government websites will be audited for cyber security prior to hosting and the process would cover existing sites too. 
Citing recent trends, official say they anticipate increasing assaults on cyber security by foreign hackers, particularly from Pakistan and China.
According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, such incidents have jumped 303% between 2008 and 2010.
An Achilles’ heel is the use of popular e-mail services, like Hotmail, by the government’s 3.1 million employees to send and receive often sensitive data. “This exposes official information to foreign servers,” cyber law expert Pawan Duggal said.
The move to monitor social networking sites could be tricky. Google — in a confidential memo to the government in May — quietly protested a set of draft rules as “too prescriptive”. The rules required websites to remove “objectionable content”, including third-party content.
The news has outraged free-web advocates. “We can’t have a leash like this without involving Internet companies,” said a media executive representing a popular website, requesting anonymity.
An official cited the European Union’s Data Retention Directive, which proposes that service providers in member states store data from social sites for one year.
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Ceglia contract didn’t name Facebook -court filing
August 16, 2011 by admin
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* Paul Ceglia sued Facebook, claiming ownership stake
* Contract cited by Ceglia didn’t involve Facebook -filing
SAN FRANCISCO, August 15 (Reuters) – A contract at the
heart of a lawsuit seeking half ownership of Facebook does not
mention the social networking giant and has nothing to do with
it, Facebook said in a court filing.
Paul Ceglia sued Facebook in July 2010, alleging that a
contract he struck with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in
2003 entitled him to half the company.
Facebook, the world’s No. 1 Internet social network with
more than 500 million users, has previously said the contract
Ceglia attached to his lawsuit was a fabrication and has
characterized him as an “inveterate scam artist.”
In a court filing on Monday, attorneys for Facebook said an
authentic contract was found embedded in electronic data on
Ceglia’s computer but that document mentions only another
company, StreetFax.
If the case is still allowed to continue despite the
discovery, attorneys for Facebook said they will formally ask a
federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit.
An attorney for Ceglia did not immediately return a call
for comment.
According to Ceglia’s lawsuit, Zuckerberg told him if he
hired Zuckerberg to work on Ceglia’s StreetFax.com project and
helped fund the development of another project that became
Facebook, Zuckerberg would give Ceglia a one-half interest in
the project that became Facebook.
The case is Ceglia v. Zuckerberg et al, U.S. District Court,
Western District of New York, No. 10-00569.
(Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by Gary Hill)
((dan.levine@thomsonreuters.com; +1 415 348-4726))
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