Friday’s edition of Spyware Weekly has a boat-load of information on that ID Theft ring and the keylogger they were using. Definitely a must read for anyone concerned about spyware infections.
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It’s easy, just take any three day weeekend, like this one, and leave an “out of office” auto-reply on your account, and please, oh please, misconfigure it so that it replies to every message on a mailing list. (Including it’s own messages of course, so that you just run a continous loop!) Nice job! I…
See, sometimes Microsoft has a good idea . By limiting the number of messages you can send with a free email account, they cut off all those spammers using hotmail accounts to send spam. That would be a good thing, and the 100 messages per day should be plenty for normal users. Really, if you…
So everyone has been blogging the story of the Digital Choice and Freedom Act, a bill designed to protect consumers fair-use rights. I don’t know whether the bill will ever get anywhere, but it is nice to see someone seeing the problem at least. But I want to point your attention to the very end…
Shannon made an interesting point in the comments on that last post about IT outsourcing: “What gets me more is that you have to have patience with your co-workers as they repeat the same mistakes again and again (like trying to send an email with a 15mb attachment). When you outsource this kinda stuff, people…
This story is an interesting look at the anti-spam “challenge-response” technique, which is now being offered to all Earthlink customers. I think it raises good points, especially when it comes to mailing lists being inundated with challenges. Personally, if I’m on a mailing list and I get a challenge from one of the members of…