Yet Another Whitelist Anti-spam Company… With PR Contacts
Techdirt: Yet Another Whitelist Anti-spam Company… With PR Contacts (regarding Mailblocks, a largely challenge/response email MUA).
IBM Watson researchers on sender-pays solution to spam
Information Week: Techdirt]
See also:
Scott Fahlman: Spam and Telemarketing
and his IBM paper (PDF)
Slashdot: IBM Researcher Offers an E-Stamp Spam Solution
United States Patent: 5,999,967
John Carter (R-TX) on P2P file sharing
Via beSpacific: Cybercrime, File Sharing and College Students:
On March 13, the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held an Oversight Hearing on “International Copyright Piracy: Links to Organized Crime and Terrorism” Links are as follows to the Witness List:
John Malcolm, Rich LaMagna, Joan Borsten Vidov, Jack Valenti.Although not a focus of the hearing, campus-wide file sharing was mentioned. See this related article from IDG News in which Representative John Carter (R- TX) is quoted as stating, “I think it’d be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids… If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and somebody’s got a 33-month sentence in the federal penitentiary for downloading copyrighted materials.”
InfoPath will be big
InfoPath will be big.
It looks to me like a very close fit to what a lot of people need XML for.
XForms could be it too, but the combination of standards-track and whole-lotta indirection and abstraction seems to be making it hard to produce actual working tools (just my opinion based on looking for some simple tool to achieve some simple things).
See Don Box: Clemens rakes the red pill
and
Clemens Vasters: Instant Love
and
Collaxa’s Take: Infopath: The path to the 2-way internet
Student Charged With Hacking at U-Texas
Student Charged With Hacking at U-Texas (TechNews.com)
“Federal prosecutors today charged a University of Texas student with breaking into a school database and stealing more than 55,000 student, faculty and staff names and Social Security numbers in one of the nation’s biggest cases of data theft involving a university.
Christopher Andrew Phillips, 20, a junior who studies natural sciences, turned himself in at the U.S. Secret Service office in Austin. He was charged with unauthorized access to a protected computer and using false identification with intent to commit a federal offense.”
SANS summary of HIPAA security rule
Via Counterpane: Crypto-Gram:
“Good seven-page summary of the 289-page HIPAA regulations”
[Introduction]
[Outline(PDF)]
