I'll never bemoan a success in the victory against cybercrime, but it would be nice if one of these announcements came against a botnet that was still relevant and sending out large amounts of spam like Rustock. When the trumpet was sounded by Microsoft about the death of the Storm botnet, it was about 18 months since it had been highly relevant.
As others have said, shutting down individual botnets doesn't have long-term effects. That lesson was learned when McColo was taken offline.
"For the first time ever: 100% reliability in combating spam. Guaranteed."
But the first two bullet points of their TOS also read:
"You understand that there are no guarantees, either expressed or implied, regarding the accuracy, confidentiality or availability of the service."
AND
"You agree to hold harmless and indemnify eProvisia LCC and its affiliates, subsidiaries, and representatives, from and against any legal claims, including liability for the company not adhering to the terms and conditions of this agreement. "
So they guarantee to stop 100% of spam...but if they don't, that's too bad as they never claimed to anyway and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.
Some juicy info on the Palmyra Atoll:
"Palmyra Atoll Palmyra is an equatorial atoll, a circular string of 54 small, heavily vegetated islets formed by the growth of coral on the rim of an ancient submerged volcano. The Palmyra Atoll is a thousand miles south of Hawaii, an untold distance from civilization. Uninhabited by humans and wild to the core, it is the last intact marine wilderness in the U.S. tropics."
So they are claiming human spam filtering from a place which is uninhabited by humans. I guess it is true that if you have a million monkeys banging on the keyboard they could actually turn out a real product.
It isn't always "function" (bells and whistles) that influence the customer buying decision. I did Sony PC tech support for quite some time, and I can't even count as high as the number of times that I heard that the only reason they bought the Sony PC as opposed to something else was because "The wife/girlfriend thought the purple PC was the prettiest one." It didn't matter that it cost more. It didn't matter what bells and whistles it had....it was the prettiest.
Welcome to the female driven economy! Aye!:)
>And the colour of this box has exactly *what* >bearing on its function?
>When did we descend into this ridiculous >consumer hell?
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I'll never bemoan a success in the victory against cybercrime, but it would be nice if one of these announcements came against a botnet that was still relevant and sending out large amounts of spam like Rustock. When the trumpet was sounded by Microsoft about the death of the Storm botnet, it was about 18 months since it had been highly relevant.
As others have said, shutting down individual botnets doesn't have long-term effects. That lesson was learned when McColo was taken offline.
There may be others that also issue the certification, but I earned mine from the EC Council. Web site is at http://www.eccouncil.org/.
So the first line on their front page reads:
"For the first time ever: 100% reliability in combating spam. Guaranteed."
But the first two bullet points of their TOS also read:
"You understand that there are no guarantees, either expressed or implied, regarding the accuracy, confidentiality or availability of the service."
AND
"You agree to hold harmless and indemnify eProvisia LCC and its affiliates, subsidiaries, and representatives, from and against any legal claims, including liability for the company not adhering to the terms and conditions of this agreement. "
So they guarantee to stop 100% of spam...but if they don't, that's too bad as they never claimed to anyway and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.
Some juicy info on the Palmyra Atoll:
"Palmyra Atoll Palmyra is an equatorial atoll, a circular string of 54 small, heavily vegetated islets formed by the growth of coral on the rim of an ancient submerged volcano. The Palmyra Atoll is a thousand miles south of Hawaii, an untold distance from civilization. Uninhabited by humans and wild to the core, it is the last intact marine wilderness in the U.S. tropics."
So they are claiming human spam filtering from a place which is uninhabited by humans. I guess it is true that if you have a million monkeys banging on the keyboard they could actually turn out a real product.
On its function? Of course nothing....
It isn't always "function" (bells and whistles) that influence the customer buying decision. I did Sony PC tech support for quite some time, and I can't even count as high as the number of times that I heard that the only reason they bought the Sony PC as opposed to something else was because "The wife/girlfriend thought the purple PC was the prettiest one." It didn't matter that it cost more. It didn't matter what bells and whistles it had....it was the prettiest.
Welcome to the female driven economy! Aye!
>And the colour of this box has exactly *what* >bearing on its function?
>When did we descend into this ridiculous >consumer hell?