In a supplemental appendix, the USSS cited the increasing diversity of the criminal underground, with bad actors clustering around Internet Relay Channels (IRC), Internet-based chat rooms, or Web-based forums.

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Ninety-nine percent of Google's revenues come from ads, either the ones it puts next to free Internet-based services like search and e-mail, or through syndication on third-party Web pages.

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The treaty follows the lead of leaders from Asia-Pacific nations, who pledged at a summit in Brunei earlier this month to triple the number of people with Internet access in their region by 2005, and provide all people in the region with individual or community-based Web access by 2010.

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