Spammers, like the pondlife they are, have evolved with the internet. The old SMTP standard is inadequate and insecure. Until there is a widespread adoption of ESMTP (ie. POP before SMTP) or something similar is implemented, everyone will be patching up the email security "holes" of open relays with Spews, RBL, etc.
... only if people insist on plonking their email addresses onto the website, either in plain-text or within a mailto: tag. It's not that difficult to obscure your address - even if you make your address into a.jpg file. Altavista has already used.jpg's with pre-rendered text that a human has to read and key in to prevent auto-registrations taking place (I think Yahoo did this too).
authorizing a transaction via your bank (a cell phone would be the best way, so you don't have to trust an in-store terminal) ...cell-phones are *wireless* so inherently insecure, be they digital or analogue.
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According to simtel.net the latest version (rl3r52a.exe) does not un-install Ad-Aware. Think the damage has already been done to Radlight's reputation now, though:)
... that doesn't kowtow to M$ by making devices that aren't Win*-specific should promote this issue. You only have to see what idiocy created winmodems to see what I mean.
Hmmm, I read about the proposal to levy a tax on blank CD's in Canada, but has the legislation actually gone through? If it has, then who's to stop people buying their blanks from US suppliers?
Sounds very much like the story on ananova.com of the Ethics students who were caught cheating using a paper pulled from the internet. The point I'm making is that it's a silly analogy because you simply can't give credit for using someone else's paper coz you wouldn't get a grade for it. Compare it to, say, using someone else's php script on your own website where you *can* give credit - people should definitely do that.
Wonder if I could use them to get some data off of the old 8" Syntran disks that I used to use in my college days on an old Norsk Data ND100 minicomputer:)
Which is exactly why it's a waste of time trying to differentiate between sensitive and non-sensitive information. Spam is spam, no matter how (in)accurately it's targeted.
The article makes reference to "deep links". If sites are so worried about that, why don't they just do what the NYTimes does and require that people register to be able to read specific pages? Anyway, lots of sites,/. included, are encouraging people to link/import to headline pages by using the Netscape.rdf files. I could understand sites getting narked at people who, say, directly used <img src> to access images on their site, but hyperlinks... what's wrong with that?
Sounds very much like the old SSB (single sideband) systems I used to play around with in my CB days:) But seriously, why would anyone *need* such high speed transfers at 5-10 meters?
It's more of an anti-car-jacking device than preventing the theft of an unattended vehicle. With violent car-jacking on the increase in England, it's a welcome invention.
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Makes you wonder... if you can send email at 40,000 feet and whatever hundred miles an hour, how do you timestamp your mails with the right time-zone?:)
Links aren't everything. Consider word-of-mouth (viral marketing) if you will. I've made 2 purchases from Amazon, both despatched and received very quickly, so I'm likely to return to them. It's one thing to attract customers and quite another to keep them. Get enough disgruntled customers and word-of-mouth can work against you. That's the beauty of the internet.
... just as long as the hole-in-the-wall PC periodically plays a spoken privacy policy (a text-based one wouldn't be much use to illiterate kids, d'uh);)
Apply that school of thought to mp3's as well and you can see that they (mp3's) are not as evil as the Recording Industry Ass. of America makes them out to be. Having said that, going back to literary works, I did hear that Steven King's last internet-only story wasn't a big seller, but it would be interesting to know if it bolstered the sales of his existing paperbacks.
But then if you're an M$ LookOut user, perhaps it could be used to obtain the contents of your.wab (windows address book) file(s) - anyone know if these files are located in a fixed folder? It's just the sort of thing that moron spammers thrive on.
Good idea for ISP's that stick to the abuse@ standard, but not much good for ISP's like Clueless & Witless, who ignore abuse@ and who use spamcomplaints@ instead. You could use a script to query rfc-ignorant.org for the right abuse@ address, but that would waste CPU and bandwidth. In any case, most spambots will ignore addresses ending in.gov and.mil, and a lot will not follow links onto.cgi pages, so I use Wpoison.cgi as a "virtual" inside a php page on my site.
Seek and you shall find. Like all good programs, Opera gives you the opportunity to turn off this function with File -> Preferences -> Windows -> Uncheck "Open windows inside Opera workspace" and then elect to restart the browser.
All the more reason why I hope the US courts will force MS to remove the embedded IE code in Windows. Simple exploits like this one leave the OS wide-open to hacks./me pats his copy of Opera.
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Don't forget that this happened via Flowgo, spammers extroadinaire, who have no scruples about using the September 11th disaster for their own ends.
Personally, I hope both IntelliTech (misnomer) and Flowgo are prosecuted for this.
Spammers, like the pondlife they are, have evolved with the internet. The old SMTP standard is inadequate and insecure. Until there is a widespread adoption of ESMTP (ie. POP before SMTP) or something similar is implemented, everyone will be patching up the email security "holes" of open relays with Spews, RBL, etc.
... only if people insist on plonking their email addresses onto the website, either in plain-text or within a mailto: tag. It's not that difficult to obscure your address - even if you make your address into a .jpg file. Altavista has already used .jpg's with pre-rendered text that a human has to read and key in to prevent auto-registrations taking place (I think Yahoo did this too).
authorizing a transaction via your bank (a cell phone would be the best way, so you don't have to trust an in-store terminal)
...cell-phones are *wireless* so inherently insecure, be they digital or analogue.
According to simtel.net the latest version (rl3r52a.exe) does not un-install Ad-Aware. Think the damage has already been done to Radlight's reputation now, though :)
HP is very much hit 'n' miss with Windows drivers, let alone Linux support. Still got no Win2k support for my HP ScanJet 3200C flatbed scanner!
... that doesn't kowtow to M$ by making devices that aren't Win*-specific should promote this issue. You only have to see what idiocy created winmodems to see what I mean.
Hmmm, I read about the proposal to levy a tax on blank CD's in Canada, but has the legislation actually gone through? If it has, then who's to stop people buying their blanks from US suppliers?
Sounds very much like the story on ananova.com of the Ethics students who were caught cheating using a paper pulled from the internet. The point I'm making is that it's a silly analogy because you simply can't give credit for using someone else's paper coz you wouldn't get a grade for it. Compare it to, say, using someone else's php script on your own website where you *can* give credit - people should definitely do that.
But that would format it to MS-DOS level. You need to tell them to FDISK! :)
Wonder if I could use them to get some data off of the old 8" Syntran disks that I used to use in my college days on an old Norsk Data ND100 minicomputer :)
Which is exactly why it's a waste of time trying to differentiate between sensitive and non-sensitive information. Spam is spam, no matter how (in)accurately it's targeted.
The article makes reference to "deep links". If sites are so worried about that, why don't they just do what the NYTimes does and require that people register to be able to read specific pages? Anyway, lots of sites, /. included, are encouraging people to link/import to headline pages by using the Netscape .rdf files. I could understand sites getting narked at people who, say, directly used <img src> to access images on their site, but hyperlinks... what's wrong with that?
Sounds very much like the old SSB (single sideband) systems I used to play around with in my CB days :) But seriously, why would anyone *need* such high speed transfers at 5-10 meters?
It's more of an anti-car-jacking device than preventing the theft of an unattended vehicle. With violent car-jacking on the increase in England, it's a welcome invention.
Makes you wonder... if you can send email at 40,000 feet and whatever hundred miles an hour, how do you timestamp your mails with the right time-zone? :)
At 40,000ft, it's a shame it wasn't a Dell aLtitude instead of a Dell Latitude :)
Links aren't everything. Consider word-of-mouth (viral marketing) if you will. I've made 2 purchases from Amazon, both despatched and received very quickly, so I'm likely to return to them. It's one thing to attract customers and quite another to keep them. Get enough disgruntled customers and word-of-mouth can work against you. That's the beauty of the internet.
... just as long as the hole-in-the-wall PC periodically plays a spoken privacy policy (a text-based one wouldn't be much use to illiterate kids, d'uh) ;)
Apply that school of thought to mp3's as well and you can see that they (mp3's) are not as evil as the Recording Industry Ass. of America makes them out to be. Having said that, going back to literary works, I did hear that Steven King's last internet-only story wasn't a big seller, but it would be interesting to know if it bolstered the sales of his existing paperbacks.
But then if you're an M$ LookOut user, perhaps it could be used to obtain the contents of your .wab (windows address book) file(s) - anyone know if these files are located in a fixed folder? It's just the sort of thing that moron spammers thrive on.
Good idea for ISP's that stick to the abuse@ standard, but not much good for ISP's like Clueless & Witless, who ignore abuse@ and who use spamcomplaints@ instead. You could use a script to query rfc-ignorant.org for the right abuse@ address, but that would waste CPU and bandwidth. In any case, most spambots will ignore addresses ending in .gov and .mil, and a lot will not follow links onto .cgi pages, so I use Wpoison.cgi as a "virtual" inside a php page on my site.
You could always pay for your copy - that'll remove the addbar.
Seek and you shall find. Like all good programs, Opera gives you the opportunity to turn off this function with File -> Preferences -> Windows -> Uncheck "Open windows inside Opera workspace" and then elect to restart the browser.
All the more reason why I hope the US courts will force MS to remove the embedded IE code in Windows. Simple exploits like this one leave the OS wide-open to hacks. /me pats his copy of Opera.