Mobile scheme aims to stop spam

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Cisco's P-Cube aims to stop spam at
source

Cisco's P-Cube aims to stop spam at
source 09/20/2004 12:54 PM
The start-up, soon to be acquired by Cisco, adds feature to help broadband service providers fight "zombie" attacks.

Scheme to stop carers who abuse

Scheme to stop carers who abuse 07/25/2004 07:15 PM
A scheme to prevent abuse of groups such as the elderly and mentally ill is being launched by the government.

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam 01/07/2004 06:36 PM
We all know now that the CAN SPAM law is a disaster and is unlikely to do anything useful in the battle against spam. It's also becoming clear that the entire point of the bill was never to stop spam, but to make a few folks in Congress look good (which seems to be the entire point of most politics these days). First, Business Week spends some time comparing the mostly effective federal "Do Not Call" list with CAN SPAM. The DNC list was planned out carefully by the FTC and the FCC, and, while it upset many telemarketers, it was designed in a way to be effective. There was also enough time, and enough publicity given to the list that people knew about it and had the opportunity to sign up for it - while marketers had the ability to prepare on their end as well. With CAN SPAM, however, it was rushed through Congress with little thought towards whether or not it would actually do anything and without any money to actually deal with any of these cases. Meanwhile, the NY Times reports that the sponsors of the bill asked the FTC to sue a spammer the very first week the bill was in effect in order to make a big "splash" so they could pat themselves on the back - even as the spam levels continued to increase. FTC Chair Timothy Muris (who has spoken out against this spam law) apparently laughed them off and pointed out it was impossible to do such a thing. First of all, in order to violate the law, the spammers have to ignore an opt-out request. Then, the FTC would have to track down who the actual spammer was - with no additional funds, because the law didn't provide for them.

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business 11/03/2003 11:40 PM
I get inundated with more and more spam every day, and it's frustrating as anything. I want it to stop. However, if politicians insist on passing bad legislation in their attempts to stop spam, that's not going to do any good. I've already complained about the new California legislation and it looks like I'm not alone. A guy who runs a consulting firm and writes for Business Week points out why California's anti-spam law won't do a thing about spam, but will make life more difficult for legitimate small businesses. He describes a situation where he did a very targeted mailing for a company. It's probably up to your definition of spam as to whether or not you consider his mailing spam. I tend to draw the line on whether or not the mailing was "bulk" - which it sounds like his was. I believe that if the email is truly targeted and personalized about a potential business relationship, then it's hard to call it spam. The California law disagrees. In fact, the sponsor of the bill claims that any email contact between two companies is not legitimate if it hasn't been initiated under some other form. That's simply ridiculous. As I've said before, plenty of "commercial" websites contact Techdirt every day about the possibility of partnerships or links. Under California's anti-spam law, I could charge them with spam. I recently heard from a major technology magazine, asking if I would add them to my Quicklinks box. Should I sue them for spam? According to the law, I could.

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Increase Lawsuits

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Increase Lawsuits 11/14/2003 07:29 PM
I hate spam and would like nothing better than to see an effective anti-spam law put on the books. However, as I've said before, the California anti-spam law is not the right law. Plenty of others seem to agree, and everyone believes that the law won't stand up if tested in court. The problem is what do people do until it's been tested? The other question is who is going to take on this law. Luckily, it won't be the Direct Marketing Association, who I don't trust in the slightest. They say they've burned up all their resources fighting the "Do Not Call" list. At a conference among email marketers, some were suggesting that they should file their own lawsuits under the bill in order to purposely clog the court system with such lawsuits. This seems like typical bad marketing thinking that overburdening a system somehow gets extra attention. The right response is that someone who gets sued for doing something that clearly is not spam is going to have to go to court and get the law overturned. Maybe (and this would be the best) it happens to someone who is not associated with an "email marketing" company, but just someone who sends a perfectly reasonable email and gets hit with a lawsuit.

Two Men Charged in AOL Spam Scheme

Two Men Charged in AOL Spam Scheme 06/23/2004 08:55 PM
An America Online software engineer stole a list of 92 million customer screen names that was eventually used to send massive amounts of e-mail spam, federal prosecutors said.

Two Men Are Charged in AOL Spam Scheme

Two Men Are Charged in AOL Spam Scheme 06/23/2004 07:03 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 23 2004 11:09PM GMT

Two Men Arrested in AOL Spam Scheme (AP)

Two Men Arrested in AOL Spam Scheme (AP) 06/23/2004 08:20 PM
AP - An America Online software engineer stole a list of 92 million customer screen names that was eventually used to send massive amounts of e-mail spam, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Two Men Are Charged in AOL Spam Scheme
(AP)

Two Men Are Charged in AOL Spam Scheme
(AP) 06/23/2004 05:23 PM
AP - An America Online software engineer stole a list of 92 million customer screen names that was eventually used to send massive amounts of e-mail spam, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Two men arrested in AOL spam scheme

Two men arrested in AOL spam scheme 06/24/2004 10:08 AM

Permission-only e-mail scheme says no to
spam

Permission-only e-mail scheme says no to
spam 04/09/2005 07:58 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 9 2005 11:20AM GMT

AOL Employee Arrested in Spam Scheme

AOL Employee Arrested in Spam Scheme 06/23/2004 07:17 PM

Pair Nailed In AOL Spam Scheme

Pair Nailed In AOL Spam Scheme 06/27/2004 03:19 AM
“JUNE 23—An AOL software engineer was arrested today for stealing the company’s entire subscriber list—totaling 92 million screen names—and selling it to a 21-year-old Las Vegas spammer. According to the below federal criminal complaint, Jason Smathers, 24, last year illegally accessed the highly confidential AOL list by using another employee’s identification codes. Smathers, who worked in AOL’s Dulles, Virginia office, then allegedly sold the list to Sean Dunaway, who used the AOL database to promote his own online gambling business and who also sold the list for $52,000 to fellow spammers, one of whom used the names ‘for purposes of marketing herbal penile enlargement pills,’ according to the complaint.’

Yahoo! releases scheme to reduce spam

Yahoo! releases scheme to reduce spam 05/18/2004 10:36 PM
Sydney Morning Herald May 19 2004 2:59AM GMT

AOL worker arrested in alleged spam
scheme

AOL worker arrested in alleged spam
scheme 06/26/2004 06:55 PM
Techzonez Jun 26 2004 11:13PM GMT

FTC Shoots Down Spam Registry, Boosts
Authentication Scheme

FTC Shoots Down Spam Registry, Boosts
Authentication Scheme 06/15/2004 07:29 PM
The FTC on Tuesday told Congress that a proposed Do Not E-mail anti-spam registry was unworkable until a universal e-mail authentication standard was adopted.

Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme
Interviewed

Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme
Interviewed 07/01/2004 06:52 AM

America Online Employee Arrested In Spam
Scheme

America Online Employee Arrested In Spam
Scheme 06/25/2004 05:47 AM
Komotv.com - Fri Jun 25, 08:32 am GMT

Two arrested in America Online spam
scheme, including AOL employee

Two arrested in America Online spam
scheme, including AOL employee 06/24/2004 04:41 AM
Siouxcityjournal.com - Thu Jun 24, 08:35 am GMT

IBM aims to spam the spammers

IBM aims to spam the spammers 03/23/2005 08:01 AM
Chicago Tribune Mar 23 2005 12:02PM GMT

Federal law aims to squelch spam

Federal law aims to squelch spam 12/16/2003 04:12 PM
roundup Backers say Can-Spam puts junk e-mailers on notice, but critics say spammers will hardly notice.

Gates Aims To Wipe Out Spam

Gates Aims To Wipe Out Spam 01/25/2004 07:29 PM

Microsoft aims at spam, viruses

Microsoft aims at spam, viruses 11/17/2003 02:05 AM
USA Today Nov 17 2003 1:34AM ET

U.N. Aims to Bring Spam 'Epidemic' to
End

U.N. Aims to Bring Spam 'Epidemic' to
End 07/07/2004 09:52 AM
The United Nations is aiming to bring a "modern day epidemic" of junk e-mail under control within two years by standardizing legislation to make it easier to prosecute offenders.

U.N. aims to bring spam epidemic to end

U.N. aims to bring spam epidemic to end 07/06/2004 03:28 PM

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea 01/03/2005 10:21 AM

Stop Forwarding Spam

Stop Forwarding Spam 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
Advice from LJ's technical manager about how to use a local user account to stop forwarding spam and viruses.

How to stop spam? Don't look to
legislation

How to stop spam? Don't look to
legislation 12/14/2003 09:50 PM
ZDNet Dec 14 2003 9:16PM ET

Worm Aims to Disarm Spam Fighters

Worm Aims to Disarm Spam Fighters 12/03/2003 06:20 AM
A new Internet worm is designed to use infected computers to launch denial-of-service attacks on anti-spam organizations.

FireTrust MailWasher aims to damp down
spam

FireTrust MailWasher aims to damp down
spam 06/07/2004 07:14 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 7 2004 12:05PM GMT

Microsoft aims to 'shift the tide' in
war on spam

Microsoft aims to 'shift the tide' in
war on spam 11/17/2003 08:04 AM
The Register Nov 17 2003 7:41AM ET

New Spam Law Won't Stop Number One
Spammer

New Spam Law Won't Stop Number One
Spammer 12/29/2003 06:52 PM
Alan Ralsky is famous as one of the top spammers around, so the NY Times went to see what he had to say about the new CAN SPAM law. While he says that he's upset at how "one-sided" it is, it won't do anything to stop him from spamming. He claims that he'll go legit with a real opt-out address in emails, but it's tough to believe that, when he claims in the same article that he's become an expert at hiding his identity in how he sends out spam. He also says that he can't stop spamming because there's "too much money" to be made - even if (he claims) it's been getting more expensive lately to keep ahead of all those filters. It's also amusing to see him blame "the internet" for "forcing" him to hide his identity online. Perhaps, if he wasn't annoying people by bombarding them with crap they didn't want, he wouldn't have had to hide himself.

Spam King Ordered to Stop

Spam King Ordered to Stop 01/05/2005 04:44 PM
theWHIR Jan 5 2005 8:11PM GMT

Stop Spam by charging to email?

Stop Spam by charging to email? 12/12/2003 12:52 PM

Easiest and Best Way to Stop mailto:
spam?

Easiest and Best Way to Stop mailto:
spam? 11/17/2002 09:46 PM
"We have published our email addresses on our web sites for almost 10 years using simple mailto: or forms. In the past year, the amount of spam has become intolerable. "

Microsoft Moves To Stop Spam

Microsoft Moves To Stop Spam 05/07/2004 10:43 AM
Xposed May 7 2004 2:16PM GMT

UN aims to bring computer spam under
control within two years

UN aims to bring computer spam under
control within two years 07/06/2004 06:23 PM
National Post Jul 6 2004 10:34PM GMT

Users Increasingly Looking To ISPs To
Stop Spam

Users Increasingly Looking To ISPs To
Stop Spam 06/09/2004 10:35 AM
Just as the news comes out that many ISPs are hesitant to filter spam, Gartner is showing that a small, but growing, number of users are getting fed up with their ISPs inability to stop spam, and would be willing to switch ISPs to get better spam protection. The problem right now, of course, is that it's not easy to get good spam filtering without too many false positives. While users say they want better spam filtering, the false positives can be just as big a problem as getting too much spam. Users are able to set up their own spam filters, of course, but they believe it's their ISPs responsibility. This viewpoint is only going to increase, and users will look to their ISPs to protect them against adware, spyware, phishing, trojans and all other types of attacks as well. ISPs have been taking either an ad hoc or a wait-and-see approach for most of this stuff, but it might make sense for them to start coming up with more comprehensive strategies that really focus on protecting their subscribers - and not just giving lip service to the idea.
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