February 2009
31 posts
UPI: Computer crashed by earthworm →
“A British man said the worm that caused his computer to crash turned out not to be a form of computer virus but an actual 5-inch earthworm.”
Joanne Bamberger: There's More to Influence on... →
“Apparently someone hasn’t clued in these high profile tweeters into what social media is about. It isn’t like traditional news or political outreach…more is needed than making one way noise.”
MetaFilter: DDoS on SoCal Time Warner →
Image by Hussain Isa via Flickr
If you truly beleive that everyone and everything is intent on stopping you from sending mail, maybe you shouldn’t be sending that mail in the first place.
Advertising Age: Obama to Name Jon Leibowitz FTC... →
‘“Industry needs to do a better job of meaningful, rigorous self-regulation or it will certainly invite legislation by Congress and a more regulatory approach by our commission,” he wrote in a concurring statement to an FTC behavioral-privacy report. “Put simply, this could be the last clear chance to show that self-regulation can –- and will — effectively protect...
The Onion: Spam Crackdown Threatens Koy4Goff's... →
(video)
Derek Powazek: Don’t Work for Assholes →
Word to the Wise: Palpable ennui →
“Senders are not passive victims of the evil ISPs. In 99% of cases, delivery problems are fully under the control of the sender.”
Seth's Blog: Is marketing evil? →
“…marketing works for society when the marketer and consumer are both aware of what’s happening and are both satisfied with the ultimate outcome. I don’t think it’s evil to make someone happy by selling them cosmetics, because beauty isn’t the goal, it’s the process that brings joy. On the other hand, swindling someone out of their house in order to make a...
New York Times: Nigerian Accused in Scheme to... →
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Swindles in which someone overseas seeks access to a person’s bank account are so well known that most potential victims can spot them in seconds.
But one man found success by tweaking the formula, prosecutors say: Rather than trying to dupe an account holder into giving up information, he duped the bank. And instead of swindling a person, he tried to rob a country — of $27...
Daily Kos: More On Monday's Internet Meltdown →
“Everyone is acquainted with the misbehaviors at the individual level found within the internet’s open, distributed architecture: mailboxes full of spam, phishing attacks aimed at your financial information, and spyware are ubiquitous. Less well known are the vulnerabilities to the systems that transport traffic. This is on the minds of everyone involved in the operation of the...
pc.com: When is a free credit report not a free... →
When it’s from fine print scammers freecreditreport.com, apparently.
(via boingboing)
VOVNEWS.VN: New decree to help stamp out spam →
New anti-spam law in Vietnam, and a new local site for spam information.
“…the number of spam mails and messages have already begun to decrease since the Decree on Spam took effect on February 9.”
Washington Post Security Fix: Verizon to Implement... →
“Most other large ISPs long ago stopped allowing customers to send mail on Port 25 because spammers typically set up junk e-mail relays on this port after infecting a computer with malware designed to convert the host system into a spam zombie.”
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OnlyOnce: Less is More →
“Marketers are turning to email more and more in this down economy. …My great fear is that just means they’re sending more and more and more emails out without being smart about their programs. That will have positive short term effects and drive revenues, but long term it will have a negative long term impact on inboxes everywhere.”
The Technology Liberation Front: I Hate “Cloud... →
I agree. There is no cloud; there are only networks.
CircleID: Should We Make the Possession of Malware... →
‘The Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime, which the United States ratified a few years ago, has a provision concerning the possession of malware. Article 6(1)(b) of the Convention requires parties to the treaty to criminalize the possession of malware “with intent that it be used for the purpose of committing” a crime involving damage to a computer or data. Article...
“Spam behaviour on the Internet is not “wrong” simply because the...”
– David W. Hankins, on an IETF mailing list
Marketing magazine: Twitter to begin charging... →
some very interesting comments
“The Net isn’t just something we connect to, but something we help build...”
– Wendy Seltzer, on twitter
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“Broadcast email is not social. It’s shouting.”
– Stephanie Miller, on twitter
SC Magazine: Busting bots: Defending against... →
‘…the problem of botnets has become “phenomenally serious” during the past two years, and it is crucial that the ISPs step up.’
AllFacebook: 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook... →
“Everyday I receive an email from somebody about how their account was hacked, how a friend tagged them in the photo and they want a way to avoid it, as well as a number of other complications related to their privacy on Facebook.”
CleanTechnica: 99% of All Recycled Cell Phones... →
including “…sensitive data like banking information and confidential emails.”
(via consumerist)
SANS Diary: Malware infection that began with... →
Lenny Zeltser examines “malware whose initial infection vector was a car windshield flier with a website address.”
Word to the Wise: Personal Contacts at ISPs: Part... →
“When someone at an ISP helps you, don’t go publishing their information on a blog somewhere. …It hurts the person who helped you, who now has to deal with a major increase in volume and work load, and they’re never going to help you again.”
The Scrappy Email Marketer: Stop sending email……. →
“Effective immediately…….please stop sending email if any of the following conditions exist…”
Washington Post Security Fix: Most Spam Sites Tied... →
Is anyone surprised?
NPR On The Media: Moshi Moshi →
“…of all the electronic devices Japanese love, the cell phone seems to hold a special place in their hearts.”
“When you say email to today’s young people [in Japan], they would never think of emails you do on the computer. To them, cell phone emails are emails. There are even some users who would say, oh, I didn’t know you could do email on a computer, too.”
ComputerworldUK: Is This the Solution to Spam? →
Glyn Moody wants government agencies to send more spam to everyone, and then educate the few fools who respond.
Glyn, your idea advocates a legislative approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won’t work. Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected, and users of email will not put up with it. Specifically, your plan fails to account for the...