Recently I received a mail asking for a quote for delivery of a crate of a particular Texas Instruments integrated circuit to a location in Lagos, Nigeria
It was blatantly not a misdirected mail as my email address couldn't be confused with any major electronics retailer. Is there some ongoing scam that relies on getting goods sent and not paying for them? (Escrow fraud?)
Could it eventually be the case that it's more secure to have wifi than ethernet due to the inbuilt security features in wifi?
Registration of MAC addresses sounds pretty secure but couldn't one plug a switch in between 2 authorised devices and packet-sniff until a MAC address was found? (forgive me if this is stupid, I'm a security noob)
I think some people are more prone to getting spam-canned than others. If your business is selling certain pills, or importing products to Lagos Nigeria, then I can see your problem...
if you want to prepare the way you could do a lot worse than start by showing Thunderbird and OpenOffice to your friends...
Thunderbird specifically as no OSS mail app can read Outlook PST files, but if you get the mails converted to (Thunderbird's -open-) mbx format on Windows, then many Linux mail clients can copy the files straight across. FWIW and OT, thunderbird can also be used to convert mail folders for use in Apple Mail with a little work
well WMP is supported and promoted because they make money licencing the secure WMA / WMV codecs to media distributors, and it can be used on DVDs. This way they make sure their users dont need to install any software to use those services.
"This cleanup is free. The next one, if the need for it is caused by bad practice, won't be"
- follow this up with standard teach-in about browser security, risks posed by using the mainstream browser that is widely targeted, introduction of a different browser that doesn't have these particular problems
- provide printed sheet about system security for them to read if the teach-in wasn't clear enough
- install Firefox and AdBlock with a default set of REGEX filters to kill the worst excesses, and suggest they play with NoScript for ultimate safety, now that the browser-crashing bug that it sometimes triggers has been fixed.
Bingo
I can only go by my own experience, but I used a fastmail IMAPO account to upload 3 years of email from the inbox on my PC to the IMAP web server, then from the server used redirect to send it all to gmail
Of about 2,500 messages moved this way into my gmail account (as a backup and to make them searchable), only 1 was spam-canned. I make that an accuracy rate of 99.6%. The 30 or so spam mails I got during the month in which I did this were all correctly moved to the spam-can
To be honest I vastly prefer the Gmail approach of having relatively smart spam analysis than a whitelist approach based on authentication.
Think of all the people out there who don't have their own mail server but have SMTP/POP access to a hosting company's machine. A change in the core protocols for email would adversely affect most of them, as even if they all had the knowledge to make the changes, they may not have the ability.
Add to this the possibility that a requirement for SenderID will just result in spammers mounting directory attacks against SMTP servers in order to find logins that work..
All this will really cause is a migration away from hotmail !
Reverse engineering DVD:CSS wasn't illegal under Norwegian law but he was dragged through the courts, found innocent, then retried on appeal and found innocent again.
The software houses exist to make money, not to have morals. I don't blame DVD-Jon for doubling his efforts to free media from DRM - I'd want to lash back too, if I'd been treated like that.
Could be like the Dmitri Skylarov case (Russian eBook programmer whose software infringed on / broke Adobe DRM patents in the US but was legal in the Russian Federation)
He was detained while visiting the USA for a conference. If so, those people better stay away, especially as the US now prevents planes crossing its airspace if they have persona non-grata people onboard
The whole point of slashdot's proxy-discovery feature is to find and ban proxies automatically and quickly. This is a troll-control feature, why would any sane person want to find a work-around?
Your own position makes sense, although you have slightly misunderstood me.
My belief is more along the lines that freedom in order to be respected must be sought... and also that cultural norms differ.
For example, the freedom to pursue a gay relationship on equal legal terms would be considered normal in the Europe of recent years, but would not be easily accepted in Qatar or Zimbabwe due to a different cultural outlook.
If we are to help the peoples of other countries to achieve their potential I believe that it should be by supporting them in attaining their desires, not by foisting a pre-packaged definition of liberty upon them.
For another example, consider food. In Europe, it is a cultural norm that livestock animals are killed with a captive bullet gun after stunning. The cultural norms of an Islamic nation require that livestock be killed with a knife to comply with the Halal law. To us as Europeans this is somewhat crude.. to a moslem, meat from an animal killed with a club or bullet is Haraam - forbidden, as it may be "tainted" with blood.
These small differences can lead to major upsets when not considered.. they make me feel that we need first to do no harm, and to doubt our ability to influence.
Also, consider the Social Charter of the Maastricht treaty. Caused havoc in the british press when it was imposed in the 90s despite the fact that it enhaced the rights of most workers and improved their position
again, imposing a solution led almost to its rejection
The old standard excuse of comparing anything that you dislike to Hitler doesn't really apply here, since al-Q is not a nation, and has neither an army, a navy nor an air force.
You speak as a European, living in a place with an established tradition of democracy which is respected as it was won by internal struggle
I don't believe democracy can be imposed upon a people, I think anything imposed by an outside force will be instinctively rejected.. and I see todays events as supporting that point of view.
And to the grandparent poster - it seems from first reports that these weren't suicide attacks. As in Madrid, the bombers planted their explosives and left.
Slashdot Mirror
yeah, we need a sort of AdBlock for DVDs...
Or the right to control how we consume the media we purchase, but it seems I'm really kidding myself there.....
maybe so, but why would a nigerian businesman of whom I have never heard have me in his addressbook?
Recently I received a mail asking for a quote for delivery of a crate of a particular Texas Instruments integrated circuit to a location in Lagos, Nigeria
It was blatantly not a misdirected mail as my email address couldn't be confused with any major electronics retailer. Is there some ongoing scam that relies on getting goods sent and not paying for them? (Escrow fraud?)
just imagine the licencing difficulty of making sure submitted samples were legal....
Great idea though - I do sometimes think of songs I love and how I'd improve the lyrics.
Could it eventually be the case that it's more secure to have wifi than ethernet due to the inbuilt security features in wifi?
Registration of MAC addresses sounds pretty secure but couldn't one plug a switch in between 2 authorised devices and packet-sniff until a MAC address was found? (forgive me if this is stupid, I'm a security noob)
I think some people are more prone to getting spam-canned than others. If your business is selling certain pills, or importing products to Lagos Nigeria, then I can see your problem...
if you want to prepare the way you could do a lot worse than start by showing Thunderbird and OpenOffice to your friends...
Thunderbird specifically as no OSS mail app can read Outlook PST files, but if you get the mails converted to (Thunderbird's -open-) mbx format on Windows, then many Linux mail clients can copy the files straight across. FWIW and OT, thunderbird can also be used to convert mail folders for use in Apple Mail with a little work
well WMP is supported and promoted because they make money licencing the secure WMA / WMV codecs to media distributors, and it can be used on DVDs. This way they make sure their users dont need to install any software to use those services.
"This cleanup is free. The next one, if the need for it is caused by bad practice, won't be"
- follow this up with standard teach-in about browser security, risks posed by using the mainstream browser that is widely targeted, introduction of a different browser that doesn't have these particular problems
- provide printed sheet about system security for them to read if the teach-in wasn't clear enough
- install Firefox and AdBlock with a default set of REGEX filters to kill the worst excesses, and suggest they play with NoScript for ultimate safety, now that the browser-crashing bug that it sometimes triggers has been fixed.
Bingo
I can only go by my own experience, but I used a fastmail IMAPO account to upload 3 years of email from the inbox on my PC to the IMAP web server, then from the server used redirect to send it all to gmail
Of about 2,500 messages moved this way into my gmail account (as a backup and to make them searchable), only 1 was spam-canned. I make that an accuracy rate of 99.6%. The 30 or so spam mails I got during the month in which I did this were all correctly moved to the spam-can
That sort of accuracy rate is fine by me..
To be honest I vastly prefer the Gmail approach of having relatively smart spam analysis than a whitelist approach based on authentication.
Think of all the people out there who don't have their own mail server but have SMTP/POP access to a hosting company's machine. A change in the core protocols for email would adversely affect most of them, as even if they all had the knowledge to make the changes, they may not have the ability.
Add to this the possibility that a requirement for SenderID will just result in spammers mounting directory attacks against SMTP servers in order to find logins that work..
All this will really cause is a migration away from hotmail !
I'm in hertfordshire and have never heard of either of the "big retailers" you quote..
Neither has Google. Is this some sort of sophisticated troll?
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that finer detail.
Ask Jon Lech "DVD-Jon" Johansson.
Reverse engineering DVD:CSS wasn't illegal under Norwegian law but he was dragged through the courts, found innocent, then retried on appeal and found innocent again.
The software houses exist to make money, not to have morals. I don't blame DVD-Jon for doubling his efforts to free media from DRM - I'd want to lash back too, if I'd been treated like that.
Could be like the Dmitri Skylarov case (Russian eBook programmer whose software infringed on / broke Adobe DRM patents in the US but was legal in the Russian Federation)
He was detained while visiting the USA for a conference. If so, those people better stay away, especially as the US now prevents planes crossing its airspace if they have persona non-grata people onboard
Don't!
The whole point of slashdot's proxy-discovery feature is to find and ban proxies automatically and quickly. This is a troll-control feature, why would any sane person want to find a work-around?
Have a look at the graph, the numbers for today have gone through the roof.... well done!
... it doesn't sound like they'll be reading this, does it?
..would this ability (XML forms thru browser)be limited to Internet Explorer running on Longhorn?
It's amusing that you can't even see the contradiction between your sig, and your comment
Your own position makes sense, although you have slightly misunderstood me.
My belief is more along the lines that freedom in order to be respected must be sought... and also that cultural norms differ.
For example, the freedom to pursue a gay relationship on equal legal terms would be considered normal in the Europe of recent years, but would not be easily accepted in Qatar or Zimbabwe due to a different cultural outlook. If we are to help the peoples of other countries to achieve their potential I believe that it should be by supporting them in attaining their desires, not by foisting a pre-packaged definition of liberty upon them.
For another example, consider food. In Europe, it is a cultural norm that livestock animals are killed with a captive bullet gun after stunning. The cultural norms of an Islamic nation require that livestock be killed with a knife to comply with the Halal law. To us as Europeans this is somewhat crude.. to a moslem, meat from an animal killed with a club or bullet is Haraam - forbidden, as it may be "tainted" with blood. These small differences can lead to major upsets when not considered.. they make me feel that we need first to do no harm, and to doubt our ability to influence. Also, consider the Social Charter of the Maastricht treaty. Caused havoc in the british press when it was imposed in the 90s despite the fact that it enhaced the rights of most workers and improved their position
again, imposing a solution led almost to its rejection
The old standard excuse of comparing anything that you dislike to Hitler doesn't really apply here, since al-Q is not a nation, and has neither an army, a navy nor an air force.
You speak as a European, living in a place with an established tradition of democracy which is respected as it was won by internal struggle
I don't believe democracy can be imposed upon a people, I think anything imposed by an outside force will be instinctively rejected.. and I see todays events as supporting that point of view.
Sense at last
And to the grandparent poster - it seems from first reports that these weren't suicide attacks. As in Madrid, the bombers planted their explosives and left.