Cyber Criminology: Exploring Internet Crimes and Criminal behavior.

* Internet Crimes Against Children

As a part of a nationwide initiative funded by the Office of Justice Program ’ s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention ( OJJDP ), The United States Department of Justice had announced a grant from the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce Program to the Dallas Police Department on 10 January 1998.

In a December 2004 article in the New York Sun, Bradley Russ, the training director for the federal Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce ( which has trained about 200 law enforcement agents nationwide ) said that the tactics of Perverted-Justice sometimes run counter to the task force's standards.

These include the processing of Hawaii State Identification Cards and administering the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, running the Missing Child Center, Child Support Enforcement Agency, Hawaii Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Hawaii Internet and Technology Crimes Unit, Office of Child Support Hearings, Tobacco Enforcement Unit, among others.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children funded a study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center in 2006 of youth Internet users over a five year period.

* Internet Crimes Against Children ( ICAC ) Task Force Program Official Website

In April 2007, Rep. Barney Frank ( D-MA ) introduced HR 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, which would modify UIGEA by providing a provision for licensing of Internet gambling facilities by the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

On May 10, 2012, Denver NBC affiliate 9News reported that Andersen's home was the target of an investigation of a suspected internet case by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.

* Crimes of Passion No. 253 Internet albums

* Report: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites Berkman Center for Internet and Society Report on DDOS

*" Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images " at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy.

Now named World Day Against Cyber Censorship, this annual event rallies support for a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all.

In conjunction with its World Day Against Cyber Censorship, RWB updates its Enemies of the Internet list which highlights what it considers the countries that are the worst violators of freedom of expression on the Internet.

He chairs the Anti-Spam Research Group ( ASRG ) of the Internet Research Task Force ( IRTF ), is president of CAUCE ( the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email ), was a member of the ICANN ( Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers ) At-Large Advisory Committee, and runs Taughannock Networks.

He has a large Internet presence with work published in scores of online publications, ranging from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Poets Against War.

In its report Protection of Children Against Abuse Through New Technologies, the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention Committee addressed the emerging issues of violence against children through the use of new technologies ( the issue of child pornography on the Internet is already covered by Article 9 Convention ) with particular reference to grooming both through the internet and by mobile telephones.

Robert Alan Soloway is the founder of the so-called " Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam ," or SPAMIS, but is said to be one of the Internet's biggest spammers through his company, Newport Internet Marketing ( NIM ).

The report entitled " State Of The World's Children 2007 " stated Barbados had rate of Internet usage which was 55 users for every 100 people.

** Response-America Remembers: One Year Later, Remembering the Victims, Pondering the Lessons Also in the Issue: International Community & the Mideast ; Tragedy of Palestinian Children ; The Real Obstacles to Peace ; Global Terror Update ; Internet Used by Terrorists, Racists ; Museum of Tolerance

* Melanie G. Snyders: CyberEthics and Internet Downloads: An Age by Age Guide to Teaching Children what they need to know ( 2005 )

He sponsored the Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ), and the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act ( PCIP ).

; Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers ( PCIP ) Act

On May 25, 2011, Smith introduced the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which sought to change sentencing rules and mandated that ISPs keep logs of customer data ( such as name, IPs, credit card numbers, and bank account numbers ) for at least a year.

In February 2012, as Minister, Toews introduced the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act ( also known as Bill C-30 ).

* Children of the Sun-Misguided Games ( Official site ), archived by the Internet Archive January 27, 2007 ( last update )

Children and adolescents are very susceptible to misusing the Internet and ultimately risking their privacy.

In 1998, the Federal Trade Commission took into account the lack of privacy of children on the Internet, which resulted in the creation of the Children Online Privacy Protection Act ( COPPA ).

In 2000, CIPA ( Children ’ s Internet Protection Act ) was developed to implement safe Internet policies such rules, and filter software.

Children can be restricted in what applications they used to access the Internet.

* Vic Toews Canadian Public Safety Minister said on February 13, 2012: ".. either stand with us or with the child pornographers " in response to questions from Quebec MP Francis Scarpaleggia ( Lac-Saint-Louis ) regarding extensive Privacy Commission concerns about ' warrant-less access ' to all Canadian Internet and Cell phone accounts under the proposed legislation contained in bill C-30 " Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act " introduced the following day ( February 14, 2012 ) in the House of Commons of Canada.

* Children and the Internet: A Zen Guide for Parents and Educators, Brendan Kehoe and Victoria Mixon, 1996, ISBN 0-13-244674-X.

* FCC Order 03-188 dated July 23, 2003, adopting measures to ensure that the FCC's implementation of the Children ’ s Internet Protection Act ( CIPA ) complies with the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court.

* Children of the dead end at Internet Archive

The purpose of the ICAC was to investigate and prosecute Internet crimes against children.

The aims of ICAC task forces are to catch distributors of child pornography on the Internet, whether delivered on-line or solicited on-line and distributed through other channels and to catch sexual predators who solicit victims on the Internet through chat rooms, forums and other methods.

The Internet is an essential tool of amateur astronomers.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

The digital data collected by the telescope is then transmitted and displayed to the user by means of the Internet.

An example of a digital remote telescope operation for public use via the Internet is the The Bareket Observatory.

A relatively recent role for amateur astronomers is searching for overlooked phenomena ( e. g., Kreutz Sungrazers ) in the vast libraries of digital images and other data captured by Earth and space based observatories, much of which is available over the Internet.

Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.

* ram – a text file that contains a link to the Internet address where the RealAudio file is stored.

The vast array of material on spiritual movements, anarchism, libertarian socialism and the Green Movement that is now available on the Internet has been perhaps more influential than any printed book.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers ( ARIN ) is the Regional Internet Registry ( RIR ) for Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States.

ARIN is one of five Regional Internet Registries ( RIRs ) in the world.

Membership is not required to participate in ARIN ’ s policy development process or to apply for Internet number resources.

Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet.

The President of the ACM for 2012 – 2014 is Vint Cerf, an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet ".

Today, Internet forums occupy much of the same social and technological space as BBSes did, and the term BBS is often used to refer to any online forum or message board.

The " Belarusian Internet " is widely called ByNet ( Байнет ) ( as an analogue of Runet ).

Internet access in Belarus is predominantly urban, with 60 percent of users living in the capital Minsk.

The profile of the average Internet user is male, university educated, living in the capital, and working in a state enterprise.

Russian is the most widely used language by Belarusians on the Internet, followed by Belarusian, English, and Polish.

Internet access is limited and expensive though telephone service is good.