I check out the Received: headers for the IP address that the spam is coming from, then use whois to find out who it belongs to.
I then forward the spam, including full headers, and the following text:
Hi,
I received this spam from out of your network. I trust sending spam is in violation of your terms and conditions.
Please take appropriate measures.
I read recently that about 80% of spam is sent via hacked computers on broadband: http://www.sandvine.com/news/pr_detail.asp?ID=50
You might consider closing port 25 per default and only open it for customers who explicitly want to run their own mail servers.
Since this study was published, whenever I receive spam that (according to the Received: headers) appears to have been sent via a broadband IP address, I refer to it in my spam complaints to ISP's. I also suggest closing outgoing port 25 per default, and only opening it for customers who explicitly indicate wanting to run a mail server. I keep a text file with this message for easy pasting into the spam complaint.
If the country is called The Netherlands, then what is Holland? and who are the Dutch?
The official name of the country is Nederland (The Netherlands) which is an appropriate name as a considerable area of the country actually lies below sea level, protected by dikes that keep the water out.
Holland is the name of two provinces in the West of the country, with port cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and the seat of the government The Hague. Historically, international trade was done mostly out of Holland, therefore this name is often used for the whole country throughout the world.
"Dutch" is the English word for the language of the Netherlands, it is related to the German word for "German" which is "Deutsch". The Dutch call themselves "Nederlanders".
There were about 100 people in line for the cashiers and less the 5 in line for kiosks. What makes anyone thing people will actually use the this technology?
Because you are served almost immediately, instead of having to wait in line for a long time?
Basically, operating speed is 106 kbits/s or 212 kbits/s, using the same protocols (Philips' MIFARE and Sony's FeliCa) as used with proximity RFID tags. Higher transmission speeds, from 424 kbits/s, are possible between dedicated NFC devices.
But then it would be more easy to filter them out. Why do you think spammers go through so much trouble trying to defeat spam filters? I am not sure the antivirus companies see the advantage in your proposal (unless they are forced to it)
Recently, I even got a "we detected a virus in your email" message with a spoofed FROM: header so that it appeared it had been sent by my own ISP, while a closer inspection of the Received: headers revealed that was not the case.
I saw a "home shopping" program advertising some kind of miracle car polish. They demonstrated its protection by firing a powerful laser on the car body. However, probably not coincidentally, a white car was used for the test, so the laser would not be able to warm it up much anyway.
I wonder if the missile used in this test had a finishing that easily absorbs the laser energy. If it would be made of a highly reflective material, almost all energy would be reflected, and it would not be affected.
The data may not be that easy to pick up, because of encryption being used. Many RFID tags that comply to the international standard ISO 14443 contain cryptograpic units that use public/private key encryption (triple DES is often used). So, listening in on the conversation you will not learn anything useful, unless you can break the encryption.
The power consumption of the cryptographic circuits explains the limited read range. The amount of power that an ISO 14443 tag needs to operate cannot be transferred across more than about 10 cm using allowable field strengths.
In the bar code industry we have a device that is called a bar code verifier. It is actually very similar to a normal bar code reader, but not as forgiving wrt printing parameters. In other words, if the verifier accepts a label, you can be sure that it's readable by a normal scanner.
It should be quite possible to make ballot readers and verifiers in a similar way. The verifier can be operated by the voter (so the vote stays secret) to verify that the ballot will be read correctly.
This somehow reminds me of the movie Stalker by Tarkovsky, in which three men enter a mysterious area, called the Zone enclosed by barbed wire and armed patrol.
The scenes filmed inside the lush nature of the Zone are in colour, this strangely adds to the eery impression, due to the contrast with the first part of the movie (the normal world) which is filmed in black and white.
I was a conscientious objector to military service (in the Netherlands). Obviously, I don't like it if my work is used by the military.
So when I started looking for a job, I excluded companies having products with a specific military use. I would never work on developing a missile guidance system, for example.
However, you can hardly avoid to work with a company whose product can not be used by the army, even if (let's say) it makes strawberry jam the army may be among its customers.
The same with Linux. I would not work on a feature specifically interesting for the army, but if the army uses Linux I couldn't worry about that.
Besides, I like to think that the international cooperation in projects like Linux, or OpenOffice.org, helps to create understanding between people in different corners of the world.
If more people would communicate and cooperate in this way, maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.
Using an alternate web browser may not mitigate this vulnerability. It may be possible for a web browser other than IE on a Windows system to invoke IE to handle ITS protocol URLs.
What browsers do not invoke IE to handle ITS protocol URLs? If I use Mozilla for example, could I still be vulnerable to this security hole?
What's that supposed to accomplish? So they lose a free account
Reducing the time window in which they might receive an exploitable response means more work for them, they have to create new accounts, send out more e-mails, etc.
Sure, whether this is effective remains the question, but blocking e-mails does not help at all to fight the problem. It only means you won't be seeing the e-mails, but they will still be sent.
The "FROM:" email address, and sometimes a backup adress, in most 419-scams I receive, almost always belong to a free email service. When I receive a 419-scam email I always report this to the abuse@ adress of these services. The sooner those accounts are shut down, the less time for the scammers to receive a response they can exploit.
If the scam email was sent from another network, I notify the owner of that network as well (except, as sometimes is the case, it's a Nigerian one...)
I doubt if this fact is related, but in the last two months, the amount of 419-scams I receive has dropped from more than one per day to about one per week.
I declined only because OO didn't work in XP as a limited user, and that it didn't support multiple users' settings.
Sure it does! You have to do a "network install" (run setup -net instead of just setup). This installs the program files in the selected directory. Then, each (non-admin) user runs the user install from that directory so that personal settings are set up.
This is explained on the web site and in the installation guides; in OOo 2.0 this option will be more obviously presented in the setup program.
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Hi, I received this spam from out of your network. I trust sending spam is in violation of your terms and conditions.
Please take appropriate measures.
I read recently that about 80% of spam is sent via hacked computers on broadband: http://www.sandvine.com/news/pr_detail.asp?ID=50
You might consider closing port 25 per default and only open it for customers who explicitly want to run their own mail servers.
Thanks,
I'm voting for a person who has shown clear opposition to software patents.
Since this study was published, whenever I receive spam that (according to the Received: headers) appears to have been sent via a broadband IP address, I refer to it in my spam complaints to ISP's. I also suggest closing outgoing port 25 per default, and only opening it for customers who explicitly indicate wanting to run a mail server.
I keep a text file with this message for easy pasting into the spam complaint.
"Police say this could be the Bay Area's first injury accident by a Segway, known as a high-tech people mower."
The official name of the country is Nederland (The Netherlands) which is an appropriate name as a considerable area of the country actually lies below sea level, protected by dikes that keep the water out.
Holland is the name of two provinces in the West of the country, with port cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and the seat of the government The Hague. Historically, international trade was done mostly out of Holland, therefore this name is often used for the whole country throughout the world.
"Dutch" is the English word for the language of the Netherlands, it is related to the German word for "German" which is "Deutsch". The Dutch call themselves "Nederlanders".
Because you are served almost immediately, instead of having to wait in line for a long time?
Basically, operating speed is 106 kbits/s or 212 kbits/s, using the same protocols (Philips' MIFARE and Sony's FeliCa) as used with proximity RFID tags. Higher transmission speeds, from 424 kbits/s, are possible between dedicated NFC devices.
A typical PDA battery (3.7 V, 950 mAh = 3.5 Wh) would be drained after about half an hour...
Recently, I even got a "we detected a virus in your email" message with a spoofed FROM: header so that it appeared it had been sent by my own ISP, while a closer inspection of the Received: headers revealed that was not the case.
I wonder if the missile used in this test had a finishing that easily absorbs the laser energy. If it would be made of a highly reflective material, almost all energy would be reflected, and it would not be affected.
The power consumption of the cryptographic circuits explains the limited read range. The amount of power that an ISO 14443 tag needs to operate cannot be transferred across more than about 10 cm using allowable field strengths.
It should be quite possible to make ballot readers and verifiers in a similar way. The verifier can be operated by the voter (so the vote stays secret) to verify that the ballot will be read correctly.
The scenes filmed inside the lush nature of the Zone are in colour, this strangely adds to the eery impression, due to the contrast with the first part of the movie (the normal world) which is filmed in black and white.
So when I started looking for a job, I excluded companies having products with a specific military use. I would never work on developing a missile guidance system, for example.
However, you can hardly avoid to work with a company whose product can not be used by the army, even if (let's say) it makes strawberry jam the army may be among its customers.
The same with Linux. I would not work on a feature specifically interesting for the army, but if the army uses Linux I couldn't worry about that.
Besides, I like to think that the international cooperation in projects like Linux, or OpenOffice.org, helps to create understanding between people in different corners of the world. If more people would communicate and cooperate in this way, maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.
It boggles the mind.
You could also take a picture of yourself and be told who you are
I for one will not buy any more Nokia products.
Actually, Eureka means "OMG!!! That bathwater is HOT!!!"
What browsers do not invoke IE to handle ITS protocol URLs? If I use Mozilla for example, could I still be vulnerable to this security hole?
Let's go to the beach and have a beer.
Reducing the time window in which they might receive an exploitable response means more work for them, they have to create new accounts, send out more e-mails, etc.
Sure, whether this is effective remains the question, but blocking e-mails does not help at all to fight the problem. It only means you won't be seeing the e-mails, but they will still be sent.
If the scam email was sent from another network, I notify the owner of that network as well (except, as sometimes is the case, it's a Nigerian one...)
I doubt if this fact is related, but in the last two months, the amount of 419-scams I receive has dropped from more than one per day to about one per week.
It doesn't have a toilet?
Sure it does! You have to do a "network install" (run setup -net instead of just setup). This installs the program files in the selected directory. Then, each (non-admin) user runs the user install from that directory so that personal settings are set up.
This is explained on the web site and in the installation guides; in OOo 2.0 this option will be more obviously presented in the setup program.