Jack Goldsmith in the New York Times: Defend America, One Laptop at a Time
“…the private sector owns and controls most of the networks the government must protect. …the firms that build and run computer and communications networks focus on increasing profits, not protecting national security. They invest in levels of safety that satisfy their own purposes, and tend not to worry when they contribute to insecure networks that jeopardize national security. This is a classic market failure that only government leadership can correct. The tricky task is for the government to fix the problem in ways that do not stifle innovation or unduly hamper civil liberties.”
CommentsExact Target: The Tipping Point Between Inbox and Spambox
“Many in our industry don’t help the matter at all because they prefer to create fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) around email delivery because they feel that obfuscation will serve them well and buy them customers. The outcome is confusion and distrust.”
Not sure why Chip didn’t also mention that most email marketing blogs (and twits) just repeat what other people in the industry said the day before.
CommentsSpam Wars: More on the URL Shorteners
“What a great way for a company to build an online brand presence—by hiding behind a URL shortener. WTF?”
CommentsComputerWorld: Registrars under fire in domain disputes
“Are domain registrars making money from cybersquatters at the expense of legitimate brands? If so, why isn’t ICANN stopping it?”
Perhaps because the fees trickle upwards, and thus ICANN is making money from this abusive behavior too?
CommentsWired Threat Level: This Just In: Fake News Sites Are Great!
“There’s something icky about the fake news ads showing up on genuine news sites like Salon, Slate and Huffington Post. … It turns out there’s a whole fake-media empire pushing the story of the massive profits to be made by gaming Google from home…. Consumers who have signed up for the $2 trial have reported being hit with surprise charges on their credit cards ranging from $70 to $80.”
CommentsHoward Rheingold on SFGate: Crap Detection 101
‘“Crap detection,” as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: “spamming.” Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon, I fear for the future of the Internet….’
CommentsNew York Times: U.S. and Russia Differ on a Treaty for Cyberspace
“United States officials say the disagreement over approach has hindered international law enforcement cooperation, particularly given that a significant proportion of the attacks against American government targets are coming from China and Russia.”
CommentsBBC NEWS: Habitat sorry for Iran Tweeting
“Furniture store Habitat has apologised for causing offence after accusations it exploited unrest in Iran to drive online Twitter users to its products.
…When asked whether an outside firm had been responsible for the strategy their spokesman declined to give details.”
By refusing to out the marketing firm that made this mistake, Habitat is basically guaranteeing that another company will get caught up in the same mess again in the future.
CommentsPhiladelphia Daily News: Can we stop those annoying political 'robocalls'? Should we?
“Are the calls effective? It’s hard to say. But nearly two-thirds of the respondents to a Pew survey reported that they hang up on robocalls without listening. Better than one of every 10 voters said that the calls made them angry.”
CommentsNetcraft: Faster Actions Needed Against Phishing Domains
“Criminals often register their own domain name to perform phishing attacks. Unlike the other common phishing site scenarios (including hacked servers, open redirects, and abuse of free webhosting), phishing sites that have their own domain name can be harder to remove, because the website owner and domain owner is the fraudster. Only the hosting and DNS providers and the domain registrar are able to take the site down and also likely to cooperate.”
(via fergdawg)
CommentsAl Iverson's Spam Resource: SORBS Information Roundup
SORBS is shutting down. Al has compiled some info.
CommentsDarkReading: Relaunched Google Search Service Fingers Malware-Spreading Advertisers
“Google is going after malware-spreading advertisers more aggressively with the quiet launch of a free service that lets Website owners run background checks on potential online advertisers.”
CommentsInternetNews: DoJ scores largest ever CAN-SPAM prosecution
Another early “spam king” may finally get what he deserves.
‘[Alan] Ralsky, 64, was charged with masterminding a systematic campaign to pepper unsuspecting consumers with messages containing “materially false and misleading information or omissions” promoting junk stocks for “U.S. companies owned and controlled by individuals in Hong Kong and China.”’
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