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SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Iraqi Cyberwar: an Ageless Joke
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Frankly, this is a great story. It’s amusing to remember how it kicked up a storm in 1991 after its initial appearance as an April Fool’s joke in Infoworld magazine.
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Detecting NAT Devices using sFlow: watch for variable TTLs
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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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.” ’
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.’
Fred Baker (Cisco):
Cisco Support for Lawful Intercept In IP Networks
CNET News: Inside Cisco’s eavesdropping apparatus | CNET News.com
PennNet 21:
U Penn Networking & Telecom strategy documents
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.”
