Tucows Appoints Internet Veteran Bill Sweetman as General Manager of its Domain Name Portfolio (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Tucows Inc. , a leading provider of Internet services to web hosting companies and ISPs worldwide, today announced the appointment of Internet veteran Bill Sweetman to General Manager of its large domain name portfolio....more...How Spammers Get Around SPF (CircleID)
Sender Policy Framework ( SPF ) stops novice spammers but not the professionals, says Spammer-X, a retired spammer who has gone into a lot of the details in his book, "Inside the Spam Cartel" . The best way to beat SPF is to join it... First, Joe Spammer rents a dedicated spam host in a spammer-friendly location, like China. Next, he registers 100 domain names, and each domain is registered ......more... Terror goes digital. With Canadian help (The Globe and Mail)
In Nova Scotia, a web-domain registration service unintentionally helps these terror proponents hide their tracks. Police, spies and lawyers are hamstrung ...more... "Working at the Automobile Laundry, Yeah" (The Chattanoogan)
It?s 1979. Dancers, wearing leisure suits, Quiana shirts, and Lyrcra dresses, are tearing up the disco dance floor to the tune, ?Car Wash,? by Rose Royce. The song was from a movie of the same name, and was on Casey Kasem?s ?American Top 40? for several weeks....more... Couple finds riches untold by serving the less fortunate (The Champaign News-Gazette)
They met at a campus bar called the Wigwam through a most unusual pickup line: How would you like to change the world in Jesus' name? Sylvia Slivon was intrigued. The year was 1969. Anti-war protests were the norm, and political change was in the air. The man who popped the question was graduate student John Ronsvalle, a thoughtful campus rabble-rouser who led the fight for student ......more... Understanding the Skype Outage (CircleID)
Skype's official explanation . Phil Wolff has a good set of interpolated comments on the official explanation. There are two things to add... As the Register points out , last Tuesday was Microsoft's monthly patch day and those patches required a re-boot. If we believe Skype that their problem started with excessive login attempts, this is the only plausible explanation on the table... ......more... Spamford Wallace Gets Sued Yet Again (CircleID)
If there were a lifetime achievement award for losing lawsuits for being annoying, Sanford Wallace would be a shoo-in. Fifteen years ago, his junk faxing was a major impetus for the TCPA, the law outlawing junk faxes. Later in the 1990s, his Cyber Promotions set important legal precedents about spam in cases where he lost to Compuserve and AOL. Two years ago, he lost a suit to FTC who sued his ......more... For the record 20 August (ElectricNews.Net)
Italian police serve up 'Phish and Chip' operation | Grisoft acquires AVG UK & Ireland...more... The Merchant of Death: Basil Zaharoff (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
IF THE Lord God Jehovah had not created Basil Zaharoff, some novelist sooner or later would certainly have got around to the job. Indeed, it is by no means certain that Zaharoff, as we have him, is not the joint product of God and the fiction writers....more... |