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german magazine: iX, http://www.ix.de/

As by now most spam probably originate from hijacked nodes or dedicated spamming networks, it is questionable whether blocking open relays is an effective tool against spam right now.

On the other hand, the blacklists of the IT magazine iX prove to be very effective: They have a nearly real-time IP blacklist of servers, that sent verified spam during the last 3 days (only), combined with fuzzy text signatures of spam mails, all available via DNS zone ix.dnsbl.manitu.net or downloadable lists (delayed by about 20mins).

Here, even their DNS based blacklist alone blocks most of incoming spam, with an extremely low rate of false positives and complains: They claim to have about one removal request in about 6000 new entries, where the blacklisting usually originated from infections.

Their fuzzy checksum techniques help avoid costly text analysis and is based on simple text manipulation, notably one of their strongest techniques is to fingerprint the distribution of whitespace as layed out in this optimized procmail script.

Spam infrastructure isn't unlimited - but blacklists have to be very large or really fast.

As by now most spam probably originate from hijacked nodes or dedicated spamming networks, it is questionable whether blocking open relays is an effective tool against spam right now.

On the other hand, the blacklists of the IT magazine iX prove to be very effective: They have a nearly real-time IP blacklist of servers, that sent verified spam during the last 3 days (only), combined with fuzzy text signatures of spam mails, all available via DNS zone ix.dnsbl.manitu.net or downloadable lists (delayed by about 20mins).

Here, even their DNS based blacklist alone blocks most of incoming spam, with an extremely low rate of false positives and complains: They claim to have about one removal request in about 6000 new entries, where the blacklisting usually originated from infections.

Their fuzzy checksum techniques help avoid costly text analysis and is based on simple text manipulation, notably one of their strongest techniques is to fingerprint the distribution of whitespace as layed out in this optimized procmail script.

Spam infrastructure isn't unlimited - but blacklists have to be very large or really fast.

Don't get your hopes up - .de is under jurisdiction of DENIC, not ICANN.

And DENIC doesn't even allow 2-digit domains. There are a few exceptions (like ix.de) that were registered before DENIC adoptef this policy.

the magazines i read regulary in austria (schwarzenegger) are c't, iX and the online-mag telepolis. on telepolis there're english articles too and an interessting column named WTC Conspiracy, with the first article about 9/11 posted on 9/13! other good literature is: linux magazine, freeX and of course SPIEGEL. on the web good places are golem, ORF, n-tv. unfortunately are the english magazines quite expensive (wired or hustler, both over EUR 10|-!). grtngs

Hopefully they do better planing than this non-english text warning guys

According to some information at the german news service Heise, the operational costs for the ring are at about 1millionUSD per day.

You probably want to reconsider your bid?:-)

As mentioned in previous posts, Heise has in depth coverage of the story, mostly german, but there is always a (...) fish.

According to some information at the german news service Heise, the operational costs for the ring are at about 1millionUSD per day.

You probably want to reconsider your bid?:-)

As mentioned in previous posts, Heise has in depth coverage of the story, mostly german, but there is always a (...) fish.

According to some information at the german news service Heise, the operational costs for the ring are at about 1millionUSD per day.

You probably want to reconsider your bid?:-)

As mentioned in previous posts, Heise has in depth coverage of the story, mostly german, but there is always a (...) fish.

There is one specificity in this case, which does not make it al out "ISP is responsible for user content" case. MSN Germany had, at the time, a clause in their user agreement, that gave MSN the rights to the content that users published. Also, one of the court's points was, that MSN published the user's content framed with links and ads by MSN.

We have to wait for the written court record to be published for complete arguments.

Heise online has an article (in german)

There have been a couple of articles on IX about the German parliament considering a migration from NT4 to either Linux or Windows, the latest news from that battle was that Microsoft promised to make the sourcecode of Windows XP available to the German government for inspection.

One thing that keeps me curious is how they (the closed source evil-doers) could possibly guarantee that the source code they give out to selected people is the code they build the actual system from, I mean do they actually say "build your own windows"? ...

I read this piece of "NEWS" (ix.de reported this item last week(Use the fish)), and promplty filled my nose with coffee.

To clarify: the main reason for this so called "Sendezeitbegrenzung" from 11 pm to 6am is the childrens protection act. ( Will somebody please think about the children :-)). It seems some of our politicians haven't greeped the fact that Germany isn't the navel of the world anymore.

In essence this new Law the "Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (JMStV)," proposes to extend the youth protection laws allready in place for Radio and TV to the Internet. ( Think FCC for Internet for the North-Americans on /.). So this will be another try, to censor content or to restrict the access to information on the internet. But we all know, how effectfull the earlier tries have been.

I'm sure everybody knews how resourcefull 6-18 year olds can be at getting the po^H^Hinformation one wants.

I read this piece of "NEWS" (ix.de reported this item last week(Use the fish)), and promplty filled my nose with coffee.

To clarify: the main reason for this so called "Sendezeitbegrenzung" from 11 pm to 6am is the childrens protection act. ( Will somebody please think about the children :-)). It seems some of our politicians haven't greeped the fact that Germany isn't the navel of the world anymore.

In essence this new Law the "Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (JMStV)," proposes to extend the youth protection laws allready in place for Radio and TV to the Internet. ( Think FCC for Internet for the North-Americans on /.). So this will be another try, to censor content or to restrict the access to information on the internet. But we all know, how effectfull the earlier tries have been.

I'm sure everybody knews how resourcefull 6-18 year olds can be at getting the po^H^Hinformation one wants.

"And, as has happened before, the internet community, strongly committed to free software, put things to work, which were not completed in the commercial field. At the end of last year an Italian programmers' team got hold of the US version of N64 and a SGI Indy, including the N64 card. Thus the team ported Linux/Mips to the play station. Linux/Mips originally had been initiated by the music company Waldorf (see iX 2/96) and, since the beginning of 1996, has been ready-to-run on R4x00 CPUs.

The main difficulties, according to the Italians, were caused by the port of the X Window System to the N64 I/O hardware. At first they ported the output routines to the dedicated co-processors. Although N64-X11 is not yet really stable, legendary 500000 XStones have been reached so far - running on an ordinary TV set, driven by high frequency signals. Of course, the quality of the picture is much better, if an AV cable and a high-quality monitor are used." (Read the article for the rest..)

That's funny, because I actually was going not to prolong my subscription to Sysadmin: I subscribed to it a year ago and am disappointed how boring it is. No good shell scripts, no information about my favorite operating system, lots of annoying commercials. Only Merlin's articles were good. They should look at some german magazines and learn how to do an interesting and enthusiastic Unix-publication. I mean Linux Magazine and iX.

But now since the excellent TPJ is back, I'll extend my subscription of course :-) Great news

The legal situation in both countries are different, but it's interesting that Germany's interior secretary just told the parliament that better electronic surveillance does not require significant changes to existing laws, but rather better trained personnel and better use of already existing data. (I am paraphrasing. See here for the German original.)

CeBIT is a business-, not a consumer-oriented trade show, or at least the makers want it to be. Since Creative's plans involved (again) to have a very large, very loud booth praising their consumer-devices, CeBIT told them they couldn't do that. That specifically. Creative pulled out entirely, and booked IFA instead.

CeBIT has since changed its mind, but Creative don't want to change their plans again, understandably enough.

Details at (for example, this is in German): http://www.ix.de/newsticker/data /chr-11.09.00-002/.

According to ct, the key issue is that Microsoft claimed that the strategy of selling software at two different prices was necessary to protect their copyright from pirates, but the court ruled that the stategy wasn't "necessary and worthy of protection".

Microsoft has been suing small dealers in Germany that have never entered any agreement with Microsoft for years. There are a lot of pending cases.

The court regards the strategy to be a method of promoting Microsoft's products, and in general there is no legal protection in Germany for manufacturers to sell products at different prices to different market segments.

German law does allow software companies to restrict the use of the software they have sold in some ways. For example, you can't resell single seat licences as network licences even if you don't have contract with the manufacturer. The court decided that the OEM licence wasn't fundamentally different than the normal licence, so this rule doesn't apply.

Two remarks from me: First, the ruling won't be published for weeks, so no one knows how the lawyers will react, and second, although this is the German Supreme Court (more or less) Germany has a myriad of competition laws ranging from the emminently reasonable to the mind-bogglingly stupid, and the EU is hacking away at all of them even as I write, so this may not be the final word.

According to ct, the key issue is that Microsoft claimed that the strategy of selling software at two different prices was necessary to protect their copyright from pirates, but the court ruled that the stategy wasn't "necessary and worthy of protection".

Microsoft has been suing small dealers in Germany that have never entered any agreement with Microsoft for years. There are a lot of pending cases.

The court regards the strategy to be a method of promoting Microsoft's products, and in general there is no legal protection in Germany for manufacturers to sell products at different prices to different market segments.

German law does allow software companies to restrict the use of the software they have sold in some ways. For example, you can't resell single seat licences as network licences even if you don't have contract with the manufacturer. The court decided that the OEM licence wasn't fundamentally different than the normal licence, so this rule doesn't apply.

Two remarks from me: First, the ruling won't be published for weeks, so no one knows how the lawyers will react, and second, although this is the German Supreme Court (more or less) Germany has a myriad of competition laws ranging from the emminently reasonable to the mind-bogglingly stupid, and the EU is hacking away at all of them even as I write, so this may not be the final word.

http://www.ix.de/ix/artikel/E/1997/04/03 6/

Not anymore, apparently...

http://www.ix.de/newsticker/data/ as-16.12.99-000/

The Athlon is now faster than the Alpha.

Hey, it seems they even found an innovative new way to make money out of it: licensing the name for other businesses. Look at the evidence in 800x600 or 1024x768 pixels.

Hey, it seems they even found an innovative new way to make money out of it: licensing the name for other businesses. Look at the evidence in 800x600 or 1024x768 pixels.

Microsoft has also has made a contract with Rheinland-Pfalz. They will buy software for eduction puposes. It is sayed, that the value of this Software is much more than 1 million DM. An article about this contract written by the German Magazin c`t can be read there: Auch Rheinland-Pfalz unterschreibt bei Microsoft. Sorry, only in German!