Michigan-Based Cyberspace Ministry Helps Porn Addicts
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By James Prichard, Associated Press  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Brian McGinness had an insatiable appetite for porn.   Day after day, for more than eight years, he spent countless hours surfing the Web for it, usually on a computer that he used after business hours at his old job.
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About four in every 10 U.S. youngsters age 10 to 17 report they've seen pornography while on the Internet, two-thirds of them saying it was uninvited, according to a study published on Monday.
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LifeChurch, an evangelical network based in Edmond, Okla., set up mysecret.tv as a forum for people to confess anonymously on the Internet.
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Like any 12-year-old, a sex-tech columnist can stumble across porn when she's not looking for it. In Sex Drive Daily.
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In our attempts to protect youths from sexual exploitation online, we lose sight of the internet's potential to reduce the prevalence of sexual abuse on minors overall. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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(InfoWorld) - Dan Lohrmann, Michigan's chief information security officer, found out about the cyber sit-in from a reporter. It was Tuesday, May 15, 2007, and a group calling itself the Electronic Disturbance Theater asked Michigan residents to voice their opposition to proposed cuts in state health care programs by targeting the Michigan.gov Web site. Over the next two days, participants accessed the group's Web site and downloaded a small browser plug-in that repeatedly hit Michigan.gov. Though Electronic Disturbance Theater sees its actions as a mixture of performance art and civil disobedience, to Lohrmann, it looked very much like a DoS attack. "Had a million people joined in, it would have been interesting," says Lohrmann. "Not in a good way." To Lohrmann's relief, far fewer than 1 million people hit the Michigan.gov site on the day of the sit-in. Web counters reported a jump of several hundred thousand page views -- about a 10 percent bump in traffic. Cyber sit-ins came of age nearly a decade ago, but recently, these disruptions have been cropping up again. There was a "sit-in element" to theÂ attacks on Estonia's online infrastructure, according to Jose Nazario, senior security engineer at Arbor Networks. Though many of these attacks were conducted via networks of hacked, botnet computers, the attackers also created code that anybody could download to voluntarily turn their PC into part of the protest. Lohrmann was struck by the type of people who were drawn into the Michigan protest. "This was parents working with bad guys," he says. Unlike DoS attacks, cyber sit-ins do not really have to disrupt service to be effective, says Dorothy Denning, professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Like the sit-in protests of the 1960s, these actions are effective whenever they bring publicity to a particular cause. "That's mostly what they do," she says. Electronic Disturbance Theater may not have taken down Michigan.gov last May, but the Michigan press and this magazine covered the cyber sit-in, Denning points out. "Obviously they're getting a little publicity," she says. And that may just be enough for the activists.
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If we're going to start worrying about porn, doesn't it make sense to actually study its role in society rather than make stuff up? Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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More than a decade after employers began cracking down on those who view online pornography at work, porn is continuing to create tension in offices across the nation - in part because laptop computers, cellphones and other portable devices have made it easier for risk-takers to visit such websites undetected.
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By Randy Myers, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  May 29--In hopes of making the Internet a safer place for children, concerned parents tap into a multitude of resources.
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NEW YORK -- Consumers of Internet pornography who secretly signed up for memberships on adult-oriented Web sites in the past few months may be in for a shock -- some of their personal information, including e-mail addresses, may have been compromised by a security breach.
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Alcoholics have one, and so do drug abusers. Now people addicted to e-mail also have a 12-step programme designed to tackle their obsession.
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By Elena Olmstead, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep. 8--A 27-year-old Richland man admitted Thursday to downloading more than 200 videos and 2,200 images of child pornography to his computer.   Andrew K.
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A vast online network is being used to promote social and environmental responsibility.
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By Susan Lee  AT first I couldn't believe the figures. More than 30 children rescued from an internet porn ring? Right here in Britain?   But hang on, where were the appeals about these kids? The searches?   Then I realised they hadn't vanished at all.
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By OLYMPIA MEA; MICHAEL MARTZ  An investigation found 1,632 pornographic acts, 508 pornographic images and 44 pornographic videos had been accessed on Henrico County School Board member Jim Fiorelli's school system-issued laptop computer over six months.
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An underground movement of gay  Orthodox Jews in Israel has created a Web site to help  homosexuals cope with living in a strict, religious community  that is often hostile to their lifestyle.
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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia hopes to add salvation to the seemingly endless list of things Internet surfers can find on Google Inc.'s YouTube.