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
LinklogThere looks to be a rise in UK spam advertising “prank lines”. If you’re going to complain, then as well as the usual abuse desks, you might want to send a copy to ICSTIS who have an online complaint form. The company that was spamming a “secret admirer” phone line promo last year (Flirt Love-Box) was fined and banned for [...]
Spotted an emerging bit of jargon today: snowshow spamming A spamming technique where mail is sent from a wide area of IP addresses (such as a /24) in order to avoid tripping any threshhold that would cause a single IP address to be blocked (for example: the metrics used by spamcop).
At the company I work for the policy for the email addresses of ex-staff members is to accept the mail, then bounce it – one copy to the sender, and one copy to the local postmaster. To me. The spam gets forwarded to me. Y’know, just in case it’s not. When you’re checking through a [...]
The Register reports that the Ministry of Defence sent spam regarding the call-up of volunteer forces in the event of a conflict in Iraq. I checked the spam-bin, and sure enough there it was in all its HTML-email, invalid Message-Id: ugliness. Amusingly the Date: was set to timezone +0100 – since the UK is still in GMT, the [...]
RBL (“realtime black-list”) is a simple yet effective net technology. Much of its power comes from piggy-backs onto the existing DNS infrastructure, automatically giving it many desirable attributes (scalability, distribution, caching) for free. My problem is with the name… RBL lists, despite their diversity, tend to get tarred with the same brush. While many lists contain specific IPs a “punisher” list [...]
ARIN now supports abuse contacts. The new whois doesn’t seem as nice as RIPE, but it’s an improvement.
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