Jessica Alba, riding a police hover drone.
Among tech journalists, BlackBerry is considered to be “old-fashioned, lame, commoditized technology,” as Mike Butcher, the blogger and digital adviser in London puts it. But BBM is private, decentralized, blindingly fast, and—most important—ubiquitous. My colleague Robert Capps has called this phenomenon the Good Enough Revolution (issue 17.09), though I doubt he [continued...]
Bill Wasik, Wired magazine, December 2011, #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You
LinklogIs the DMA about to start endorsing a DNSDB approach to filtering email? From a recent NMA article: Head of the Direct Marketing Association’s interactive media division, Robert Dirskovski, said its Email Marketing Council had been discussing the possibility of introducing a white list solution. This would list those who are entitled to send email, and would be regulated by ISPs and/or a government agency. [...]
Route View has announced a new DNSDB service to resolve AS and AS path views. So to give an example news.bbc.co.uk: $ dig +short a news.bbc.co.uk. newswww.bbc.net.uk. 212.58.226.30 $ dig +short txt 30.226.58.212.aspath.routeviews.org. “6895 4589 2818 9156″ “212.58.224.0″ “19″ “2905 6453 9156 2818″ “212.58.224.0″ “20″ If you have no idea what any of that means, relax, don’t worry about it. Carry on [...]
The reactions to the DTI’s anti-spam regulations have been somewhat less than positive. For a start, they don’t prohibit mail going to addresses used for business (other than opt-out-per-campaign, which will have little effect). One of the practical objections to this being: how can a spammer differentiate between a business and personal address? You can’t usually tell just by looking at an [...]
Yes, on some fundamental level I believe Verisign’s abuse of wildcard DNS for their Site Finder service is wrong. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s all bad. Analysis of the F Root Server has shown a huge number of unnecessary queries. Much of the resolver infrastructure out there is broken, but rather than fixing it we expect the root and gtld servers [...]
If you read my words about fixing SMTP last month you might want to take a look at an draft RFC document I came across regarding technical issues in dealing with spam. As well as being a useful summation of the issues involved, it’s also framed (as you might expect of an RFC) in fairly uncontroversial language, which is unusual for a [...]
If you’ve ever needed to hunt for NTP details when setting up a computer you might want to use pool.ntp.org which, for each query, will give you a random public ntp server using round-robin DNS. Especially useful for roaming laptops.
Along with an exponential rise in spam in the last few years, I’ve noticed a corresponding rise in the number of commentators who have concluded that the only solution is to dump SMTP. Occasionally it’s a government representative who’d like the ability to tax email. Often it’s a pundit. A recent ZD piece being a perfect example: “SMTP is outdated, [...]
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