Archive for the ‘LINKS’ Category.
April 22, 2003, 9:42 am
David Berlind: Networking Updgrades / Slam, bam, no thank you, spam – Tech Update – ZDNet:
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Perhaps the biggest problem is that there’s no standard way for getting permission. Most e-mail senders believe that if a closed permission loop exists, e-mail they send should get a hall pass. In a closed loop, if you try to sign me up for a newsletter, I will be given the opportunity to confirm that via e-mail. Presumably, I’m the only one with access to my inbox and, if I accept the confirmation, the newsletter will begin to flow to me on a periodic basis. If I don’t confirm it, I receive nothing.
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April 21, 2003, 1:40 pm
Legal Tags: Wendy Seltzer’s Weblog: Even Harvard’s Dean Misreads the DMCA:
‘A “repeat infringer” is not someone who has merely been accused of wrongdoing, but one who has been proven to have engaged in unlawful activity, twice.
The distinction is important because entertainment industry accusations are not proof of infringement; at times, they are downright laughable. Universal Studios recently sent a demand letter to the Internet Archive because some of the Archive’s public domain films had numerical filenames, apparently leading an automated ‘bot to mistake a promotional film of a seamstress-in-training for the submarine movie “U-571.” ’
April 21, 2003, 1:09 pm
E-mail Coalition Floats Plan to Stop Spam
‘The E-mail Service Provider Coalition of the Network Advertising Initiative plans to announce a blueprint for an Internet-wide technological solution to spam this week.
“We need to level the playing field and get one uniform standard,” said Trevor Hughes, executive director of NAI. The Coalition members include e-mail service providers such as ClickAction, Yesmail, Mindshare Design, Cheetahmail and Digital Impact.
The NAI plan would change the e-mail architecture to keep spammers out and allow legitimate e-mail to pass through. E-mail senders would undergo a certification process under which each would have to meet a number of qualifications. E-mail service providers would register their clients.’
April 18, 2003, 11:39 am
PennNet 21:
U Penn Networking & Telecom strategy documents
April 12, 2003, 10:16 am
O’Reilly Network: Help me like Instant Messaging again. [April 12, 2003]
“Help me like instant messaging (IM) again. I was an early adopter, but got burned.
Back when ICQ was still new I had adopted using it. It was fabulous and my friends & I had taken to using it instead of email. For each other anyway. Something bad happened though. Spam. By the bucketload. There were days when I’d here “Oh-uh!” twenty times a day with nothing but invitations to chat with someone cute and lonely. Right.
Despite clicking every checkbox in the preferences the spam didn’t stop. My friends & I eventually had to opt for using it less and less until we just couldn’t bother with it any longer. At least we had some spam prevention with out email clients or ISPs.”
April 10, 2003, 12:55 pm
Information Security Magazine, April 2003 – News and Analysis:
‘Attorneys nationwide reportedly plan to deploy decoy patients at health care organizations to see if doctors, dentists, hospitals and insurance companies have the policies, procedures and protections that ensure patients’ privacy, as required by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Those that don’t comply risk hefty fines, possible criminal prosecution and costly civil lawsuits. Companies have had two years to educate staff, designate a privacy officer and adopt basic security measures. But there’s a good chance some providers will miss the deadline. … The threat of lawsuits may be a stronger motivator than government fines or jail time, says Kate Borten, a security consultant and president of The Marblehead Group in Massachusetts.
“The government has publicly stated it will be very forgiving if an organization demonstrates it meant well and has taken steps to become compliant,” Borten says. “The greater concern is the private lawsuit or bad press in a local community that will hurt business.”’
April 10, 2003, 11:55 am
XML Cover Pages:IBM alphaWorks Releases XML Forms Package:
The XML development team at IBM alphaWorks labs has released an ‘XML Forms Package’ as one of several new technologies. The XML Forms Package is a toolkit consisting of software components designed to showcase the possibilities presented by W3C XForms. XForms is W3C’s next generation of web forms defined in a Candidate Recommendation specification. The IBM XML Forms Package “consists of two main components: the data model component and the client component. The data model component provides a set of Java APIs for creating, accessing, and modifying XForms data models. This package also includes a JSP tag library that provides a set of tags for use inside JSPs. The tag library interfaces with the XForms data model component APIs, thus providing JSP authors a means of accessing these APIs from within their JSPs. A detailed description of the data model APIs and the tag library, as well as their use, can be found in the documentation for the XML Forms data model. The client component includes two technologies: An XForms processor control and a Java XForms compiler. The XML Forms Package allows developers to deploy XForms applications without any client-side technologies, using the Java XForms compiler. It also includes an Internet Explorer process control with several useful extensions including local persistence, UI control extensions, and Web Services integration. The data model component allows JSP programmers to take advantage of XForms model constraints and validation without leaving their familiar programming environment and tools.”
