Ramblings & ephemera
On Saturday 17 April 2004, I received the following email from someone I didn’t know:
> Hello,
>
> I am not sure who you are but our security detected a Netsky virus in an
> email that you sent. Whether a personal message or a spam, please make
> attention to the fact that you are spreading viruses and [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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Saw this in an email sig:
Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
Mac OS X: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
Linux: Are you coming or what?
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Posted on November 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Clay Shirky’s “Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software” (Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet: 5 November 2004):
This possibility of adding novel social components to old tools presents an enormous opportunity. To take the most famous example, the Slashdot moderation system puts the ability to rate comments into the hands of [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Clay Shirky’s “Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software” (Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet: 5 November 2004):
Learning From Flame Wars
Mailing lists were the first widely available piece of social software. … Mailing lists were also the first widely analyzed virtual communities. …
Flame wars are not surprising; they are one of [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Alex Mindlin’s “Seems Somebody Is Clicking on That Spam” (The New York Times: 3 July 2006):
Spam messages promoting pornography are 280 times as effective in getting recipients to click on them as messages advertising pharmacy drugs, which are the next most effective type of spam.
The third most successful variety is spam advertising Rolex watches, [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Dennis Fisher’s Spammers’ New Tactic Upends DNS (eWeek: 10 January 2005):
One troublesome technique finding favor with spammers involves sending mass mailings in the middle of the night from a domain that has not yet been registered. After the mailings go out, the spammer registers the domain early the next morning.
By doing this, spammers hope [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Spam Daily News’s “Spam zombies from outer space“:
Spammers could soon use zombie computers in a totally new way. Infected computers could run programs that spy into a person’s email, mine it for information, and generate realistic-looking replies.
John Aycock, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Calgary, and his student Nathan [...]
Posted on May 12th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Technology Review’s “Terror’s Server“:
According to [Gabriel] Weimann [professor of communications at University of Haifa], the number of [terror-related] websites has leapt from only 12 in 1997 to around 4,300 today. …
These sites serve as a means to recruit members, solicit funds, and promote and spread ideology. …
The September 11 hijackers used conventional tools like [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From MedZilla’s “Emails ‘gone bad’“:
In another example of embarrassing and damaging emails sent during work is an investigation that uncovered 622 emails exchanged between Arapahoe County (Colo.) Clerk and Recorder Tracy K. Baker and his Assistant Chief Deputy Leesa Sale. Of those emails, 570 were sexually explicit. That’s not the only thing Baker’s lawyers are [...]
Posted on April 8th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Slashdot’s “Pay-per-email and the ‘Market Myth’“:
But I think there’s a bigger problem underlying all of this. It’s not about specific problems with GoodMail’s or AOL’s or Hotmail’s system. The problem is that many advocates of these systems say that any flaws will get sorted out automatically by “the market” — and in this case [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From PCWorld.com:
Imagine receiving a new e-mail from an old friend that begins, ‘By the time you read this, I will have passed on.’
It could happen, as a result of a new Internet service called TimelessMail.com . Through this new service (which costs $12 to $24 annually), subscribers create and store e-mail messages containing their [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From PC World’s “Britney Spears Ranked Top Virus Celebrity“:
Researchers combed through the seven years of virus-laden messages stored in Panda’s malware database to determine which celebrities most often had their names involuntarily used in association with malicious spam. …
The top ten list of celebrity virus rankings (in descending order) is: Britney Spears, Bill Gates, Jennifer [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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