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If so, then maybe the comments will cause some advertisers (or their ad agency) to change their ways. Let us hope so.
Advertisements are an important part of an efficient marketplace. With out some (the useful ones) how would you know that one of the local grocery stores is having a sale on something that you plan to buy or that your price threashold has been met for item that you wanted but well unwilling to pay for at the old price.
Intrusive ads get blocked. Ads on Slashdot, except for pop-ups do not; someone has to pay.
google is your friend. First came across this technology in the 1970's in a paper from the Naval Post Grad School. The problem them was how to communicate with submerged subs using only very low frequency keyed CW. google will lead you to more modern applications, e.g., "A technique for removing noise and emphasizing coherent events from multiple channels of seismic data."
Fred Cohen (of the Deception Toolkit fame, http://all.net) offered the following suggestions in a posting to RISKS-22.44.
"... If you are studying criminal behavior, reading books by crooks is probably a good idea. But if you want to know about cons, far better books are:
"Flim-Flam" by James Randi
"Scam School" by Chuck Whitlock and "Rip-Off" by Fay Faron
All three are by legitimate researchers who present results taken from scores to hundreds of incidents and present how and why scams work, the techniques used, the different plots, and so forth. They present many excellent examples of how these sorts of crimes work, how they impact the victims, the psychology of the criminals, and so forth.
See the excellent paper by Tom Ceresini at http://www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/incident/viability. htm. The paper is valuable not only for it content and discussion, but also for the links it provides. While the paper focuses on "logfiles", its suggestions apply to any copies (e.g., disk image) that may be created as part of the data collection process.
or some form of e-blackmail. How does Kai-Uwe know for a fact the "dissuasion" came from Adobe? Is someone just saying pay me E2500 and I won't sue you (this time)? I smell a rat. Who is asking for the money? What is their name and business address? Inquiring skeptics want to know.
Junkbusters is your friend. Tested it against the Washington Post example page. With out the Junkbusters proxy, four "bugs" found. With the Junkbusters proxy, zero "bugs" and fewer ads. (http://junkbusters.com) You may need to spend some time getting your configuration the way you want it. There is a RPM package with some "improvements" and workable block/cookie files. Microsoft Windows users will have to create their own config files.
Some states have good anti-spam laws that would allow the ISP to collect a nice fine. Other ISP have UCE/SPAM cleanup fees as part of their Acceptable Use Policy. There is money to be make in putting SPAMers out of business. Information on state anti-spam laws can be found at:
http://www.spamlaws.com/
According to the analysis (see URL below), "the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), impose a massive and complex burden on providers, health plans, clearinghouses and their business associates." These US Federal regulations are mandatory. Key items from the regulation include:
-- The privacy regulations now extend to all individually identifiable health information in the hands of covered entities, regardless of whether the information is or has been in electronic form. In contrast to the proposed rule, which only covered information that had at some point existed in electronic form, this now includes purely paper records and oral communications.
-- Providers will need to obtain a patient's consent to the disclosure or use of the patient's health information for ordinary activities, such as treatment, payment and the entity's own operations.
-- Enforcement of the privacy regulations has been delegated to the DHHS (Dept. of Health and Human Services) Office of Civil Rights. The regulations do not provide for a private right of action permitting patients to sue for violations, but do contain both civil and criminal penalties for violation, including fines and imprisonment (e.g., a fine of up to US$250,000 and imprisonment for up to 10 years, for knowingly disclosing or obtaining protected health information if done for commercial or personal gain or for malicious harm).
For more information see: http://www.dwt.com/practc/hc_ecom/hc_ecom.htm
At the "Linux University" held in Washington, DC (9 Sept. 1999) SGI announced their goal of developing a secured Linux(tm) distribution, first at the C2 level then at the B1. The presenter indicated that they (SGI) intended to offer their security work to the "Open Source" community. SGI also announced that, in addition to their offer of the journal file system, they are going to offer their considerable experience in SMP kernel implementation. The "Linux University" was co-sponsored by SGI, Red Hat, and Government Computer News.
The presentations will be posted by 13 September 1999 at http://www.sgilinux.org. For those interested in the security related announcement, look of the presentation call "Tux goes to Washington". All in all, a very exciting set of announcements.
Take a look at http://niap.nist.gov/ for information about the National Information Assurance Partnership. Here is some info from the August 27, 1997 press release:
"In a move to assist U.S. information security technology producers in achieving international competitiveness, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency today signed a letter of partnership establishing the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)SM. This initiative is expected to break new ground by providing both independent evaluators and product producers with objective measures for evaluating the quality and security of these products. In turn, this should result in increased consumer confidence in evaluated information security products."
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If so, then maybe the comments will cause some advertisers (or their ad agency) to change their ways. Let us hope so.
Advertisements are an important part of an efficient marketplace. With out some (the useful ones) how would you know that one of the local grocery stores is having a sale on something that you plan to buy or that your price threashold has been met for item that you wanted but well unwilling to pay for at the old price.
Intrusive ads get blocked. Ads on Slashdot, except for pop-ups do not; someone has to pay.
google is your friend. First came across this technology in the 1970's in a paper from the Naval Post Grad School. The problem them was how to communicate with submerged subs using only very low frequency keyed CW. google will lead you to more modern applications, e.g., "A technique for removing noise and emphasizing coherent events from multiple channels of seismic data."
Fred Cohen (of the Deception Toolkit fame, http://all.net) offered the following suggestions in a posting to RISKS-22.44.
"... If you are studying criminal behavior, reading books by crooks is probably a good idea. But if you want to know about cons, far better books are:
"Flim-Flam" by James Randi
"Scam School" by Chuck Whitlock
and "Rip-Off" by Fay Faron
All three are by legitimate researchers who present results taken from scores to hundreds of incidents and present how and why scams work, the
techniques used, the different plots, and so forth. They present many excellent examples of how these sorts of crimes work, how they impact
the victims, the psychology of the criminals, and so forth.
[snip]"
See the excellent paper by Tom Ceresini at http://www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/incident/viability. htm. The paper is valuable not only for it content and discussion, but also for the links it provides. While the paper focuses on "logfiles", its suggestions apply to any copies (e.g., disk image) that may be created as part of the data collection process.
or some form of e-blackmail. How does Kai-Uwe know for a fact the "dissuasion" came from Adobe? Is someone just saying pay me E2500 and I won't sue you (this time)? I smell a rat. Who is asking for the money? What is their name and business address? Inquiring skeptics want to know.
Junkbusters is your friend. Tested it against the Washington Post example page. With out the Junkbusters proxy, four "bugs" found. With the Junkbusters proxy, zero "bugs" and fewer ads. (http://junkbusters.com) You may need to spend some time getting your configuration the way you want it. There is a RPM package with some "improvements" and workable block/cookie files. Microsoft Windows users will have to create their own config files.
Some states have good anti-spam laws that would allow the ISP to collect a nice fine. Other ISP have UCE/SPAM cleanup fees as part of their Acceptable Use Policy. There is money to be make in putting SPAMers out of business. Information on state anti-spam laws can be found at:
http://www.spamlaws.com/
According to the analysis (see URL below), "the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), impose a massive and complex burden on providers, health plans, clearinghouses and their business associates." These US Federal regulations are mandatory. Key items from the regulation include:
-- The privacy regulations now extend to all individually identifiable health information in the hands of covered entities, regardless of whether the information is or has been in electronic form. In contrast to the proposed rule, which only covered information that had at some point existed in electronic form, this now includes purely paper records and oral communications.
-- Providers will need to obtain a patient's consent to the disclosure or use of the patient's health information for ordinary activities, such as treatment, payment and the entity's own operations.
-- Enforcement of the privacy regulations has been delegated to the DHHS (Dept. of Health and Human Services) Office of Civil Rights. The regulations do not provide for a private right of action permitting patients to sue for violations, but do contain both civil and criminal penalties for violation, including fines and imprisonment (e.g., a fine of up to US$250,000 and imprisonment for up to 10 years, for knowingly disclosing or obtaining protected health information if done for commercial or personal gain or for malicious harm).
For more information see: http://www.dwt.com/practc/hc_ecom/hc_ecom.htm
At the "Linux University" held in Washington, DC (9 Sept. 1999) SGI announced their goal of developing a secured Linux(tm) distribution, first at the C2 level then at the B1. The presenter indicated that they (SGI) intended to offer their security work to the "Open Source" community. SGI also announced that, in addition to their offer of the journal file system, they are going to offer their considerable experience in SMP kernel implementation. The "Linux University" was co-sponsored by SGI, Red Hat, and Government Computer News.
The presentations will be posted by 13 September 1999 at http://www.sgilinux.org. For those interested in the security related announcement, look of the presentation call "Tux goes to Washington". All in all, a very exciting set of announcements.
Thanks, SGI.
Take a look at http://niap.nist.gov/ for information about the National Information Assurance Partnership. Here is some info from the August 27, 1997 press release:
"In a move to assist U.S. information security technology producers in achieving international competitiveness, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency today signed a letter of partnership establishing the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)SM. This initiative is expected to break new ground by providing both independent evaluators and product producers with objective measures for evaluating the quality and security of these products. In turn, this should result in increased consumer confidence in evaluated information security
products."