国内大事记编辑本段回目录
China’s state media announces that a man has been sentenced to thirteen years in prison and fines of 100,000 yuan (15,000 dollars) for operating a porn website as part of an ongoing campaign to crack down on online sexual content.
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
A Chicago Task Force raids the business of alleged computer hacker Richard Andrews. The U.S. Secret Service arrest computer hackers known as Leftist, Prophet, Terminus, and Urvile. Read more in Bruce Sterling’s “Hacker Crackdown”, available online and as a free download.
The website of Boimag is hacked by “CoF”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of Computer Beratung Direkt is hacked by “th3 4m1sh n1nj4s”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of Presage Internet is hacked by “CoF”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
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Google removes the website of the German car company BMW from its index. The company’s homepage, BMW.de, has a pagerank of 0, and the website doesn’t appear in search results for any terms. The ban is evidently precipitated by BMW’s use of a deceptive search engine optimization (SEO) tool known as “doorway pages,” though the reason is never officially announced by Google. Doorway pages are webpages that hold nothing but linked keywords and are visible only to search engine bots. They are designed to boost a site’s search engine ranking. BMW is one of the largest corporate entities to be penalized by the search engine for so-called blackhat seo techniques to date. Visit the official BMW website.
Internet peer-to-peer lending institution Prosper.com goes live. The company lendsmoney to borrowers using a Dutch auction system to determine the terms of the loan, which are funded by others consumers. Visit the official Prosper.com website.