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Inside China’s Spam Crisis

While China is working to crack down on information that may be considered harmful content to residents within its country, what is missing from their approach is cracking down on the users of the .cn ccTLD and providers of hosting services that initiate spam from China.

Almost 70% of the spam produced in 2009 comes from a domain name that falls within the .cn ccTLD.

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Trans-Atlantic Internet Cables May Be Filled by 2014

Citing an expected boom in Internet usage back in the early 2000s when companies other than traditional carriers laid undersea cables, a prediction which did not happen, a glut of bandwidth was placed on the market. Due to the glut prices fell drastically and some companies went out of business. By 2014 the amount of available bandwidth across the Atlantic is expected to be surpassed by the demand. Current pricing is below what it cost to lay another cable. Prices will most likely go up.

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How the Internet Freedom Initiative Could Help Iran

Originally developed by Chinese dissidents to defeat Chinese Internet censorship, the Global Internet Freedom Consortium developed software that allows users to have free access to the Internet, surpassing state-imposed censorship while still maintaining the user’s anonymity. The “Internet Freedom Initiative”, a bill before Congress, will, if passed, include $50 million for censorship-evasion technologies.

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Resilience of public eCommunication Networks

ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) has launched a project to evaluate and improve the resilience of public e-Communications within Europe.

The program looks into technical as well as market and policy related aspects.

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