January 2009 - Posts
Hap tip to AllSpammedUp for posting this this other day. I saw it and thought it was hilarious.
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This is my final post on the subject. The Washington Post has posted an article on President Obama's Cyber Security Strategy. Let's take a look at a few excerpts: Obama Administration Outlines Cyber Security Strategy President Barack Obama
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I came across McAfee's Spam Trends in 2009 article , as reported by PC1news.com. In the article, they summarize some of McAfee's predictions about where spam is going to go in 2009. Most of the predictions are actually extensions of trends
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Last month, Seattle had a snowstorm that shut the city down for about a week. Don't laugh, all of you mid-westerners, here in Seattle we have hills that go nearly straight up and down so in icy weather you can't drive anywhere. Not only that,
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I'm going to wrap up my brief series on cybersecurity and the federal government by taking a look at what I think such a post might look like. Let's assume for the sake of argument that the Constitutional objections have been overcome and the small
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Spammers throwing in the towel Pill purveyors can't push products anymore Disassociated Press, updated 2 hours ago. Several of the world's most notorious spammers said Thursday that they planned to cut the amount of spam they send because of the current
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Reflecting on the events of today, January 20, 2009, I thought I would take a time out from spam blogging to post this cartoon.
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Continuing on in my series about cybersecurity and whether or not government should manage it centrally, I thought I would look at some obstacles towards setting up such an office. The first obstacle - the Constitution In the United States, there is a
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Continuing on from my previous post, what is the case for having a government-level agency responsible for cybersecurity? We've looked at who should be responsible for keeping the Internet clean, and the current candidates that I have disqualified
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A couple of weeks ago, I was blogging about whether or not cybersecurity should be managed, or overseen, from the White House. The Obama administration during the campaign was in favor having a cabinet level post, a so-called Cyber-czar. Leaving
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The other day I was over at a friend's place watching Season 1 of Battlestar Galatica (the remake, not the original series). He doesn't care about 24 so I'll have to catch up on that later. Anyhow, it was the season finale of season 1 where
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MSN had an article recently telling a story about a Dr. Libshitz, over in England. In the story, Dr. Libshitz couldn't get an email address when he tried signing up for an email address from some ISPs. Some excerpts: If there's a subset of
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As I blogged about several months ago, as well as numerous other anti-spam bloggers, David Ritz was sued by Jeffrey Reynolds and a judge in North Dakota agreed with Reynolds. At the heart of the case was that Ritz engaged in anti-spam activities
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This cartoon is kind of fitting if you want to move into the email industry one day (where all the cool people hang out): Source .
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Sometimes I hear the joke, or conspiracy theory, that anti-virus companies are at least partly responsible for viruses that plague the Internet. The theory is that they will keep themselves in business by writing a new virus and playing up the threat
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It's been a week since I last posted, and I have noticed a trend in 2009 that continues on in the vain of 2008. I mentioned in my end of year round-up that viruses were on the rise in 2008. In 2009, I don't see much difference other than the
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