Spammers Strike Back
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Spammers strike back!
Spammers strike back!
12/04/2003 12:10 AMglobetechnology.com Dec 3 2003 11:14PM ET
Verizon Launches Strike Against Cell
Phone Spammers
Verizon Launches Strike Against Cell
Phone Spammers
08/04/2004 09:57 AM
Although I've been blessed
enough to have dodged the cellular spam bullet, I know not all of you
have been so lucky. And while it's far from an epidemic (yet), Verizon
Wireless is trying to nip it in the bud, filing federal lawsuits
against a group of alleged New Jersey cell phone spammers who sent
"152,000 unsolicited commercial electronic messages to thousands of
Verizon Wireless subscribers."
Until Verizon takes down their awful sign that mars the downtown
Manhattan skyline, they will remain my sworn enemy. I am glad, though,
to see someone try to take a chunk out of these assholes before it
becomes an even bigger deal. That being said, you can only do so much
with lawsuits; perhaps a technological solution is needed. Like the
one for email. Nevermind.
Read -
Taking a dagger to cell-phone spam... if possible [Yahoo (USA
Today)]
Spamming Back The Spammers
Spamming Back The Spammers
04/19/2004 04:29 PMSomewhat amusing column from someone who admits they were quite
clueless on the spam issue (claiming they actually thought people
complaining about spam were talking about the faux-meat) but now that
he's realized that the spam he gets isn't actually personally
addressed to him (slow guy, I guess), he's decided to
spam the spammers back with fake spam of his
own. Of course, someone should probably tell him that spammers
aren't using real email addresses and he's now (a) annoying other
people with more spam and (b) putting himself at risk of being accused
of breaking anti-spam laws.
IBM Fights Back Against Spammers
IBM Fights Back Against Spammers
03/22/2005 04:24 PMIBM upped the ante in its fight against spam by releasing FairUCE
Tuesday, a technology the company claims fights junk mail better by
analyzing the "domain identity" of an e-mail. If an e-mail is deemed
to be spam, it is redirected back to the real sender, essentially
spamming the spammer.
Responding to Spammers -- The Internet
Strikes Back
Responding to Spammers -- The Internet
Strikes Back
11/05/2003 10:55 AMOne of the things that I live my life according to is the question:
"What would happen if everybody did this?". This is one of the
reasons why I would never spam.. If everybody did that, we would end
up with, well, the situation we've got with spam. Today, I got so
fed up with the spam I've been receiving (I'm up to about 300 spams a
day now), that I picked two random spams, went to their web sites and
typed in random data into their forms. One of those sites was even
kind enough to respond with a toll free number that I could use if I
was overly eager to talk to them ( 1-866-561-9216 -- inaccessible from
Canada). Then I asked myself my recurring question "What if
everybody did this?". I liked the answer. We've been going about
it all wrong. We need to start responding to spam.
The CIOs strike back
The CIOs strike back
04/29/2004 06:28 AMAndrew Black is part of a corporate software buyer's co-op called
Avalanche. If it works as planned, the business of buying IT may be
forever changed.
The British Strike Back
The British Strike Back
06/07/2004 12:09 PMBritain's BAE Systems outbids General Dynamics for Alvis. Smart move?
New Zealand strike back in Napier
New Zealand strike back in Napier
04/07/2005 02:59 AMNew Zealand reach 64-2 and a lead of 127 going into the final day
after bowling Sri Lanka out for 498.
Spam Wars: Filters Strike Back
Spam Wars: Filters Strike Back
11/04/2003 06:25 AMUntil now, antispam developers and their products have played defense
only. But now, one activist wants spam filters to automatically launch
attacks against suspected spammers' sites to shut them down. By Amit
Asaravala.
CBC News: Michael Moore's critics strike
back
CBC News: Michael Moore's critics strike
back
05/23/2004 05:00 AMmoney quote from ReganBooks .. ripped into Michael
Moore
cbc.ca/story/arts/national/news/2004/05/21/Arts/moore20040521.
html
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Search engines strike back at adware
firm
Search engines strike back at adware
firm
05/14/2004 07:39 AMZDNet May 14 2004 12:05PM GMT
In the Competition for DVD Rentals by
Mail, Two Empires Strike Back
In the Competition for DVD Rentals by
Mail, Two Empires Strike Back
03/31/2005 12:03 AMNetflix pioneered the business of DVD rentals by mail, enlisting three
million subscribers along the way. Now Blockbuster and Wal-Mart have
gotten into the act.
Wired News: Spam Wars: Filters Strike
Back
Wired News: Spam Wars: Filters Strike
Back
11/05/2003 06:25 AMHow about stopping them by attacking them back .. Spam Wars: Filters
Strike Back .. getting
nasty
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Anti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers
junk unsolicited unwanted bulk huge
commercial email spams e-mail! FREE
Anti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers
junk unsolicited unwanted bulk huge
commercial email spams e-mail! FREE
04/24/2004 11:48 AMAnti-Spam - Fight Back
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The New York Times > Washington >
Campaign 2004 > News Analysis: Kerry
Might Pay Price for Failing to Strike
Back Quickly
The New York Times > Washington >
Campaign 2004 > News Analysis: Kerry
Might Pay Price for Failing to Strike
Back Quickly
08/21/2004 12:54 PMnytimes.com/2004/08/21/politics/campaign/21assess.html?hp
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More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers
More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers
06/11/2004 12:55 PMIt looks like the various spam laws that help legalize spam are making
the spammers extra litigious. Following a lawsuit in the US by a
spammer against an anti-spam operation for
still
block their email, some spammers in the UK are
threatening
Spamhaus with lawsuits for still having them on their blacklist.
The problem is that, just because the law now gives them the
permission to spam, it doesn't mean people aren't allowed to make
their own private efforts to block them. The laws may allow them to
send their spam, but there's nothing in these laws that require people
to receive it.
Referer spammers are comment spammers
too
Referer spammers are comment spammers
too
02/01/2005 10:08 PMIs there a connection between referer spamming tools such as Reffy,
and mass comment spamming in Movable Type?
My TrackBacks are
Broken Fixed
My TrackBacks are
Broken Fixed
03/19/2003 10:25 PMCan someone ping this entry with a TrackBack? Let me know what (if
any) error you get. A few folks have told me that my TB is broken and
I seem to be getting way fewer TrackBacks that normal. I suspect it's
related to my recent upgrade to MT 2.63 but am not sure where to begin
debugging this yet. I will have to search around a bit in the morning
and see if this is some sort of known...
Debian: Where should
wewe should go from
here?
Debian: Where should
wewe should go from
here?
06/17/2005 06:46 PMDebian sarge has finally been released -- now what? If you ask me (and
you didn't, but I'm going to tell you anyway), Debian should have two
overarching priorities for the next release: 1. putting a timed
release cycle in place, so what happened with sarge never happens
again; and 2. keeping the growing family of Debian derivatives united
around a common core -- namely, Debian itself. What's at stake? If we
don't do something about both of these problems, actual and potential,
Debian will be irrelevant by the time etch is out.
Iraqi first strike before the American
first strike?
Iraqi first strike before the American
first strike?
03/15/2003 04:09 AMABC news is reporting that the US is worried that Iraq may strike
first before we can strike first. I don't wish any harm on the
American troops overseas (or on the poor Iraqi soldiers either, for
that matter), but the logic of the outrage about this escapes me. We
are proclaiming our right to strike preemptively and unilaterally,
where we see a threat that might appear in the future, and we are
actively preparing to strike at Iraq. What logic allows us to be
outraged if Iraq reacts to this threat by striking at the troops
ringing her borders? Incidents like these are why the Europeans have
concluded that Americans have gone off their rockers....
Doctors Know Best Us.
Doctors Know Best Us.
03/06/2004 01:52 AMAs featured in today's NYT, a marvellous example of the Emergent
Transparency: Doctors Know Us.com, a database of people who have sued
medical professionals. Liability insurance going up? Screen your
patients for serial litigants. DoctorsKnow.Us alerts potential
plaintiffs that a...
Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times)
Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times)
08/12/2004 06:07 AMLos Angeles Times - FORT MYERS, Fla. — As rare back-to-back
tropical storms — one a hurricane, the other likely to become
one — churned Wednesday toward Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush declared a
statewide emergency and mobilized the National Guard. Tourists were
told to evacuate the low-lying Florida Keys.
Livewire: Back to School Means Back to
Advergames (Reuters)
Livewire: Back to School Means Back to
Advergames (Reuters)
09/15/2004 03:18 PMReuters - Back to school for many kids means
"back to Internet access" in classes where the best of
filtering software is not foolproof, particularly against
seemingly harmless Web sites used for invasive marketing.
POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back
POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back
09/11/2004 10:09 PMTechTree Sep 12 2004 2:43AM GMT
To Florida WebmasterWorld Members - Back
Ups Back Ups
To Florida WebmasterWorld Members - Back
Ups Back Ups
09/02/2004 05:26 PMIn the face of a hurrican, do you have a diaster recovery plan?
"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy"
"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy"
02/10/2004 02:52 AM"spammers"
"spammers"
01/04/2004 03:27 PMTake My Spammers... Please...
Take My Spammers... Please...
09/09/2004 10:39 AMInteresting
story from the BBC about giant service provider Savvis’
internal debate over whether to expunge spammers from their network.
The article details their angst over hosting spammers vs their love of
that sweet green cash.
Alif Terranson, a former Savvis employee who was responsible for
keeping the network clean, objected to the spammers and wrote a
200-page report detailing his complaints about the spammers.
He told the BBC: “One of the Vice Presidents told me,
‘Take no action against any Cable & wireless customer - they
are profitable and they are off limits.’
“He was talking specifically about that 200-page report
which at the time was 95 spammers. When I left Savvis in April it was
almost 100, today it is 148.
Two hundred pages? I don’t like spam, but I doubt I could
write that much on it. Maybe he should have mailed it a page at a time
with subjects like ‘H3RE’5 TH4T B1G SP4M RE.PoRT!!!
F4NTASTIC REEDING!!!’
After being threatened with blacklisting by anti-spam groups, they
finally decided to give the spammers their walking papers, but it goes
to show you just how hard spam is to get rid of. The lost profits of
these customers is small potatoes to the world’s second largest
provider, but Mom & Pop providers would probably be loathe to get
rid of them.
Via Multiple Sources.
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Spammers
Spammers
09/07/2004 02:49 AMI haven't said anything about spam in a while. I've stopped keeping
track of my monthly intake, no longer look...
Everyone Sue Some Spammers
Everyone Sue Some Spammers
02/18/2004 12:07 PMWho knew? Apparently, today is a "sue a spammer day" (though, perhaps
it should be every day) as both Earthlink and AOL have announced
lawsuits filed against spammers. Earthlink is going after
an Alabama spam ring. Instead of relying on weak
anti-spam laws, Earthlink is charging them with violating racketeering
laws. It sounds like a fairly sophisticated operation, using a
variety of fake identities and rapidly changing websites to avoid
detection. Meanwhile, AOL is
going after a Florida company who they had sued once before,
but which was thrown out over questions about jurisdiction. This
time, the lawsuit was filed in Florida, rather than in Virginia.
"But the bond between veterans has to be
tempered in light of the individual's
record. Just as Mr. Kerry threw away
medals only to claim them back again,
Sen. Kerry voted to take action against
Iraq, but claims to take that vote back
by voting against..."
"But the bond between veterans has to be
tempered in light of the individual's
record. Just as Mr. Kerry threw away
medals only to claim them back again,
Sen. Kerry voted to take action against
Iraq, but claims to take that vote back
by voting against..."
01/27/2004 02:55 PMComment spammers
Comment spammers
10/30/2003 10:25 PMI have been spared the invasion of the comment spammers because my
weblog was offline this summer. But to pre-empt them, now that
comments are back, I installed Blacklist. I then did a Google query on
blacklist.txt, and pasted the...
Why do Spammers Spam?
Why do Spammers Spam?
05/14/2004 09:17 AMLadies and Gentleman that is the million dollar question and now we
have some insight into exactly what is happening...
Big Bounties Only Way To Take Down
Spammers
Big Bounties Only Way To Take Down
Spammers
09/16/2004 10:41 PMThe idea of "bounties" for anyone who can track down a spammer is not
a new idea. Larry Lessig has been
suggest
ing it for a while and the FTC has been
conside
ring whether or not to add it to CAN SPAM. While they've said in
the past that they doubted it would work, today they reported their
findings, which claim the only way to make a spam hunting bounty
system work is to
pay some serious cash to spam
hunters: $100,000 to $250,000. Note that this is more than what
the FBI pays for tips on its 10 Most Wanted list. While the report
claims such a bounty would have to come from taxpayer funds, perhaps
they should talk to some companies. Large ISPs already pay plenty
trying to weed out all the spam clogging their network. Perhaps
they'd be willing to toss a few hundred thousand dollars into a bounty
system, hoping that taking down spammers would relieve some of their
network congestion.
Damn spammers!
Damn spammers!
10/28/2003 11:06 PMThose spammers have really sunk to new lows now! They're now posting
spams to my blog! So I've had to...
Experts: Spammers are on the run
Experts: Spammers are on the run
01/26/2004 10:18 AMBoston Globe Jan 26 2004 2:14PM GMT
Spammers, I Salute You
Spammers, I Salute You
04/13/2005 05:58 PMFor both your creative ways to get around spam blockers and your
incredible stupidity in doing so. I saw this in my mail box,...
Will China Really Go After Spammers?
Will China Really Go After Spammers?
09/15/2004 01:39 PMFor quite some time, it's been known that many spammers use Chinese
servers to send out spam. The Chinese government hadn't paid much
attention to spam, preferring to do more important things online like
blockin
g out Google. However, after realizing that (uh oh) political
activists might start using spam to get their message out, they
announced plans earlier this year to
crack
down on spam. It looks like it took them a few months to realize
it wasn't as easy as they've expected, so they've now
agreed to work with foreign anti-spam firms to try to
tackle the problem. These anti-spam firms are excited about this,
because they think with some cooperation from the Chinese government
and Chinese ISPs they'll be able to do a lot more in stopping spam
coming from China. Of course, it won't be long until spammers move on
to some other country (or to various zombie systems). Still, for all
the talk about how China is now interested in stopping spam, it is
worth remembering that the only reason they got interested originally
was to block political speech. So, is it really a coincidence that
Symantec's anti-virus software is suddenly deciding that a program to
route around Chinese government censorship is
a trojan that should be blocked? It makes you wonder what
kind of deal these security firms struck with the Chinese government.
How much will the Bounty be for Spammers
How much will the Bounty be for Spammers
05/23/2004 07:52 AMBack when America had a true wild wild west their where bounty posters
for murder's, bank robbers etc. Well the...
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