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Sixty-eight young Iranians men and women have been arrested for using a website dating service. The operators of the website were also arrested. The Basij militia enforce Iran’s strict morality laws and often raid parties, but this is the first time they’ve acted against web users. Basij General Ahmad Rouzbehani says, “Some people were using an internet site to allow girls and boys to talk and arrange meetings in a place in north Tehran where they had illegal relations.” This can be a deadly activity for young Muslim women.
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An 28-year-old African studying medicine in Russia paid his tuition by running an internet dating scam in which he pretended to be a beautiful Russian woman searching for a mate. He posted a photograph from a magazine on the net, and convinced several British men to send “her” money for a visa so she could come and meet them. After the woman failed to arrive, several of the men complained to the Russian police, who arrested the student.

So watch out for that internet spam touting “Russian Beauties Who Want to Meet You.” You may be sending sweet stuff to a male medical student.

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The Chinese block news and soft-core sex internet sites, but let porno sites through. They also block desperately needed AIDS information. A team from Harvard Law School spent 8 months testing more than 200,000 Chinese websites and discovered that nearly 20,000 sites are inaccessible there. They tested Saudi sites last year and found almost all women’s sites were blocked, including those advertising bathing suits.
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While most of us were innocently surfing away on our computers Monday evening, the entire internet was almost taken down. The FBI has launched an investigation into the attempt to destroy the net by trying to cripple key servers by deluging them with many times more data than they usually receive. But since servers are spread around the world, have fast connections and ordinarily cope with many data requests, the net did not go down. “As best we can tell, no user noticed and the attack was dealt with and life goes on,” says Louis Touton, of Assigned Names and Numbers.

“What we learned yesterday is?it is hard to kill this system,” says Paul Vixie of the Internet Software Consortium. “The Internet is sort of the cockroach of the modern age. It survives.”
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