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Comment spam: Spammers vs morons
This post is a bit of a rant. On this particular blog, all of my commenters are quite intelligent.  You all provide good content and I try my best to respond to most of the comments.  The times I don't is because the connection screws up and Read More...
Sample stats on botnets
A few months ago there was a research presentation presented on computer security.  It touched upon botnets and the presenter gave some data.  Below are some summary results based on a 9-day down-sampled spam trace from Hotmail. There were 294 Read More...
Spoofing inside a walled garden
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has described Facebook as a walled garden, that is to say, inside is very nice but only certain people can get in.  Facebook is based on trust, only friends can view your profile and not just any old person can talk Read More...
More on PII and IP addresses
In a follow up to the blog post from Google arguing against IP addresses being Personally Identifiable Information, I have a couple of more comments. A couple of months ago we ran into the exact same issue.  While Whitten does make valid points that Read More...
IP addresses and PII
I don't normally cheer for Google when I don't have shares in the company, but this time I will make an exception. Alma Whitten, Software Engineer at Google, today posted to their Public Policy Blog that IP addresses shouldn't be considered Personally Read More...
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