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Israel's Ministry of Communications will hold Naked DSL hearing soon

Naked DSL (also known as Stand-Alone, Unbundled Stream Service Dry Loop, DSL, etc.) is a general term for the provision of broadband services, based on DSL technology, without the need to purchase telephony services (PSTN) for the same copper line. In Israel, this would mean without purchasing PSTN services from BEZEQ, the former state run monopoly and ...

University leaked excutives e-mail addreses

Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management's Executive Education School (LAHAV) inadvertently leaked hundred's of e-mail addresses of leading executives in Israel's private and public sectors. The addresses were leaked in an e-mail message of the 20th of June that included an invitation to an event organized at LAHAV. Apparently the message was addressed CC rather than BCC, thus ...

Army officer accused of accessing his commander's email

The prosecution of Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) will indict a junior officer for illegally accessing his commander's computer files and e-mail correspondence. Allegedly, the junior officer accessed his commander's computer files and for several months read and deleted some of his e-mails, read his personal journal and other classified information "that could aid the enemy to locate targets and make ...

A bill approved in government: ISPs obliged to offer content filtering

Israeli ISPs will be obligated to offer their customers content filtering services in order to block access to websites that provide gambling, violent or pornographic content. Such content is deemed inappropriate for minors as long as it does not have any artistic, educational, scientific or other redeeming merit. This is stated in a bill approved today by the Israeli's government ...

Deceitful Chain Letter: Tnuva Recycles Expired Milk

A chain email letter that has been circulating in Israel in the past few days claims that Tnuva, the country's leading dairy producer, "has invented a new method to recycle milk", and that it "pasteurizes milk which passed its expiration date" and returns it to the retailers. Inter alia, the message claims that "if the milk has been pasteurized ...
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