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MickC @ November 30, 2005 # No Comment Yet
It appears that now Blue Security is offering its Denial of Service software to businesses. It’s a teaser. Install it now and use it free maybe until the end of 2006. Then you have to pay for it.
MickC @ November 23, 2005 # No Comment Yet
A couple of months ago, Rodney Joffe won an appellate court decision against a company using SMS text messaging to send spam to his cell phone.
Now, Verizon has sued an alleged cell phone spammer.
Verizon’s lawsuit against Passport says about one-quarter of the alleged spam messages were sent to sequential sets of phone numbers within an [...]
MickC @ November 22, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Today I read an Interview with a spammer. I thought it was pretty interesting.
It’s getting harder to spam. It’s becoming less profitable to spam. Playing by the rules means that messages don’t get read.
So, what’s a spammer to do?
Here are some answers — straight from the horse’s mouth. So to speak.
MickC @ November 15, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Friends of mine know that I have sleep apnea and have required the use of a CPAP for several years now. Even though I couldn’t tell much difference right off the bat, I can’t sleep without it now.
That’s unfortunate, because about three weeks ago my CPAP broke. I was using a Resmed S6 [...]
MickC @ November 7, 2005 # No Comment Yet
On April 18, 1971, John Kerry either admitted to being a war criminal or committed treason on national television. As time went on the rhetoric toned down. As more time passed by, it changed so that during the 2004 campaign, he had not committed any war crimes, he was only relating the stories [...]
MickC @ November 7, 2005 # No Comment Yet
It’s official now. Grokster is dead.
Grokster Ltd., a leading developer of Internet file-sharing software popular for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down operations to settle a landmark piracy case filed by Hollywood and the music industry, The Associated Press has learned.
They have even changed their web page to read:
The United [...]
MickC @ November 3, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Just a follow-up to the link I posted day before yesterday.
Sony has backed down. They are now offering an “update” to their XCP DRM regime. This update will remove the cloaking/rootkit “features” of the software.
MickC @ November 1, 2005 # Comments Off
This is just a link to the story, but it’s important enough that if you’re here and haven’t read it, you should go do it now.
Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far
MickC @ November 1, 2005 # No Comment Yet
I always knew I was smart, but this morning FoxNews.com is telling me that:
Einstein Managed His Inbox Just Like You
Wow. Who knew.
Seriously though, it turns out that correspondence is corespondence is correspondence. As a result, no matter how you are corresponding, or what medium you’re using to do it, you tend to look [...]
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