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<Karen>

Facebook security lapse allows Paris Hilton pictures to be leaked
A security lapse on Facebook has allowed its users to gain access to
vast libraries of private photographs, including one of Paris Hilton
drinking beer with her friends.
A Canadian hacker exploited a recent upgrade to the networking site's
privacy settings to view pictures that were intended to be private,
including some of Paris Hilton partying with her brother, Barron
Nicholas, at the recent Emmy awards.
Facebook was told about the problem yesterday afternoon, and said it had
since fixed the bug.

Outsourced passport work poses risk
The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic
passports to overseas companies including one in Thailand that was
victimized by Chinese espionage raising concerns that cost savings are
being put ahead of national security, an investigation by The Washington
Times has found.
The Government Printing Office's decision to export the work has proved
lucrative, allowing the agency to book more than $100 million in recent
profits by charging the State Department more money for blank passports
than it actually costs to make them, according to interviews with
federal officials and documents obtained by The Times.
The profits have raised questions both inside the agency and in Congress
because the law that created GPO as the federal government's official
printer explicitly requires the agency to break even by charging only
enough to recover its costs.
Lawmakers said they were alarmed by The Times' findings and plan to
investigate why U.S. companies weren't used to produce the
state-of-the-art passports, one of the crown jewels of American border
security.

3)
The FCC has released their "high SPEED" STATUS REPORT
There are now over 100,000,000 high speed connections (as
defined by exceeding 200Kbps in one direction) in service in the
United States.
A little over 60,000,000 are connected to residential dwellings.

Of those connections only 5.6% have a greater throughput than
25Mbps.

The total number of connections that have speeds in excess of
100Mbps (in one direction) is a staggering 21,708 as opposed to
Japan which has already achieved close to 100% deployment of
100Mbps.

Over 95% of all lines are serviced by the duopoly. This would be
the same duopoly that does not exist, according to AT&T's
management.

And with a level of hubris that is beyond all concept of
reality, we find the FCC stating that 99% of all US ZIP Codes
now have, at least, one broadband provider, a statement that
Commissioner Copps called the ZIP code methodology "stunningly
meaningless." Even better, roughly 85% of all ZIP Codes
(estimated) to have four or more providers.

And in a move that I can only term, better late than never, the FCC has
decided that 200Kbps (in only on direction) is no longer a true
definition of broadband) and has voted to increase that rate to 768Kbps,
which coincidentally is the speed that many of the ILECs provide as
entry level DSL.

The FCC's report. titled, "High-Speed Services for Internet Access:
Status as of June 30, 2007" can be downloaded here:
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-280906A1.pdf>

A reasonably good review of this report can be found here:
<http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9898118-7.html

State of the Internet & Challenges ahead
"How is the Internet likely to evolve in the coming decade"
To be published in the NEC'2007 conference proceedings
Olivier H. Martin
ICTConsulting, Gingins (VD), Switzerland
http://www.ictconsulting.ch/reports/NEC2007-OHMartin.doc
Abstract
After a fairly extensive review of the state of the Commercial and Research & Education, aka Academic, Internet the problematic behind the, still hypothetic, IPv4 to IPv6 migration will be examined in detail.  A short review of the ongoing efforts to re-design the Internet in a clean-slate approach will then be made. This will include the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded programs such as FIND (Future Internet Network Design) [1] and GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) [2], European Union (EU) Framework Program 7 (FP7), but also more specific architectural proposals such as the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) paradigm and Data Oriented Network Architecture (DONA) [3].

Key words:  Internet, GÉANT2, Internet2, NLR, NSF, GENI, FIND, DONA, OECD, IETF, IAB, IGF, ICANN, RIPE , IPv6, EU, FP7, clean-slate, new paradigms.
1 Introduction
While there appears to be a wide consensus about the fact that the Internet has stalled or ossified, some would even say that it is in a rapid state of degeneracy, there is no agreement on a plan of action to rescue the Internet. There are two competing approaches, evolutionary or clean-slate. While a clean-slate approach has a lot of attractiveness it does not seem to be realistic given the time constraints arising from the fact that the IPv4 address space will be exhausted in a few years time, despite the fact that IANA  (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) is about to allow an IPv4 "trading model" to be created . Therefore, the migration to IPv6 looks "almost" unavoidable, though by no means certain , as the widespread usage of Network Address Translators (NAT) and Application Level Gateways (ALG) is both unlikely to scale indefinitely and/or to meet the ever evolving Internet users' expectations and requirements. However, new ideas arising from more radical and innovative approaches could probably be retrofitted into the existing Internet, e.g. self-certifying names, à la "DONA ". The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about the ongoing initiatives with a special emphasis on technical issues and possible remedies or solutions, it does not attempt in any way to be exhaustive as the subject of the Internet evolution including the societal, ethical and governance aspects are far too wide and complex to be addressed in a single article.
2 Main Sources
Most of the information appearing in this paper has been extracted from the following Web sites and conferences, Terena Networking Conference  2007 [4] and, in particular: "The latest development in NSF's GENI/FIND projects and their influence on the European Networking Community  [5]" by Jiri Navratil (CESNET), STARPLANE: "An Application-controlled Photonic network  [6]", by Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam), "Is Global IPv6 Deployment on Track?  [7]", by Carlos Friaças (FCCN), RIPE55  [8], NANOG41  [9], CCIRN  2007 [10], IEPG  2007 [11], "IPv6 Transition and Operational Reality [12]", by Randy Bush (IIJ ), Australian IPv6 summit  2007 [13], OECD workshops  [14], IAB workshops  [15], "Living the Future [16]" by Dirk Trossen (NOKIA), IPv4 Address Report  [17], CircleID  [18], Geoff Houston's posts  [19], Global IPv6 launch event  (2004) [20].



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