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SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT: FTC labels porno spam

SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT: FTC labels porno spam 04/14/2004 10:31 AM
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"Handing over keys, not
control...Campaign turns
nasty...Political billions"

"Handing over keys, not
control...Campaign turns
nasty...Political billions" 08/22/2004 08:59 PM

Blog Spam, spam en webl0gs

Blog Spam, spam en webl0gs 11/19/2003 09:18 AM

Spam turns ten today

Spam turns ten today 03/06/2004 01:58 AM
Many, many unhappy returns

Spam Turns 100, By One Reckoning

Spam Turns 100, By One Reckoning 09/13/2004 09:50 PM

Alliance turns up heat on spam

Alliance turns up heat on spam 06/22/2004 03:30 PM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, which includes AOL and other major ISPs, releases a set of best practices. Among their recommendations: Kill the "zombies."

War on spam turns to open proxies

War on spam turns to open proxies 01/02/2004 01:14 PM
ZDNet UK Jan 2 2004 12:23PM ET

E-mail virus turns PCs into spam
machines

E-mail virus turns PCs into spam
machines 10/31/2003 05:14 PM
Trend Micro said tens of thousands of corporate computer users in France and Germany were hit today by the virus, dubbed "Mimail.C."

E-Mail Virus Turns PCs into Spam
Machines

E-Mail Virus Turns PCs into Spam
Machines 10/31/2003 01:56 PM
Reuters Oct 31 2003 12:41PM ET

New tool for ISPs, web-based email turns
up the heat on spam

New tool for ISPs, web-based email turns
up the heat on spam 09/03/2002 11:37 AM
IDGNet New Zealand Sep 3 2002 9:05AM ET

Blog Spam

Blog Spam 03/19/2005 02:22 AM

What's to stop people from spamming Feedster and other blog search engines? At what point does a blog entry cease to become "real" and crosses the line into shilling for a product or company?

I found this today. While searching for a particular term over at Feedster, I found several "blog entries" that were nothing but thinly veiled advertisements. They had the veneer of independent thought, but as you read them, it was obvious that they were pitching one thing or another. So these people essentially spammed Feedster.

And where is the line? On this site, we've talked glowingly about EditPlus , PowerGrep, PHPRunner, Image Genius, and lots o f books, but they were honest representations of how we thought. And we stood to gain nothing by posting them.

Is that the litmus test? If you stand to gain nothing, then it's okay? But if you have a financial interest, then it's not okay?

We tend to look at the "blogosphere" as this pure environment, but it's bound to get crapped up by spam sooner or later. It's already happened for penis enlargement. Everything is bound to follow.

SPAM on your BLOG?

SPAM on your BLOG? 11/27/2002 07:45 PM

MSN Goes After Blog Spam

MSN Goes After Blog Spam 08/12/2004 09:33 AM
"One good way to make money is to boost your "Google Ranking" by posting comments... Obviously, posting comment spam on MSDN blogs will really jack up your rank, because we tend to get linked a lot..."

Even my bl0g is getting spam!

Even my bl0g is getting spam! 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
Well, it was s upposed to happen sooner or later. My blog is getting spammed. That makes turning the comment feature off very tempting, but until it becomes unmanageable I won't. I appreciate the comments too much :-)The other possible...

Dealing with Blog Spam

Dealing with Blog Spam 03/14/2005 05:34 PM
For the past few days, we've experienced a bit of a slowdown in the timeliness of our data. To give you an idea, our normal median time between being pinged by a blog and having the data available in...

Rising bl0g-spam

Rising bl0g-spam 11/06/2003 05:07 PM
While it's sad, and more than a little pathetic, blog spam, like all the other sorts of spam, seems to be on the rise. I've been getting more and more comments posted that aren't anything more than links to some pill site or other. Having some of the antispam MT plugins helps,but still, there's a bunch I need to go hand-delete. (After which I generally IP-ban the poster, which has worked as well to cut down on the spam, though I worry about the collateral damage) It's really sad, though. Yeah, it means more work for me, and more maintenance,...

Blog spam... I give

Blog spam... I give 12/24/2003 12:07 PM
I already have the MT-Blacklist plugin installed, but manual updates to the blacklist aren't cutting it--too much would've-been-caught crap's making it through. Time to break down and automatically update the blacklist. Luckily someone's already got a tool. (Yeah, it's python, but I honestly don't care what's in the Happy Fun Ball so long as it works) At least I get comments mailed so the crap gets seen quickly and doesn't linger, but I'd rather it not be up in the first place....

A solution for bl0g spam?

A solution for bl0g spam? 09/06/2004 09:09 AM
I am currently planning my own CMS geared toward blogging, since I either just don’t like the CMSes I’ve reviewed,...

Blog spam (not the usual kind)

Blog spam (not the usual kind) 02/01/2005 09:47 PM
I got a mail advertising a new Finnish movie blog hosted on blogspot.com. I was going to let it pass quietly and ignore it, but apparently the same person has been mailing other< /a> bl oggers, as they seem to have received the same spam as well. Because spam it is - unsolicited mass advertising, quite illegal in Finland.

Jussi whoever you are: that was really dumb. This is not the right way to gain good publicity. In fact, it's not even a good way to gain any publicity, as I will never link to your blog now because of your spam (and will remember this for a long, long time, too). Stop doing that.

"Tipping Point: Blog Spam"

"Tipping Point: Blog Spam" 06/21/2004 09:19 AM

Blog star 'fesses up to payola spam scam

Blog star 'fesses up to payola spam scam 03/31/2005 05:55 PM
Google objects to CNET staffer's Adsense-bait

Tobias Schlitt's Blog: Thoughts on
Trackback Spam (Services_Trackback)

Tobias Schlitt's Blog: Thoughts on
Trackback Spam (Services_Trackback) 06/24/2005 03:03 PM
Tobias Schlitt has posted this new item over on his blog today with a bit more information on the PEAR Services_Trackback library and his effort to create *the* method to keep comment spam away.

A few weeks ago I announced the release of Services_Trackba ck 0.5.0, which has a new module system for integrating spam protections into your trackback mechanisms. While the most easy filter (the bad word list) worked quite well for the first time frame, but as usual it did not take long for the spammers to work around that with using entitie encoding. Of course to get around that from the anti spam point of view is very simple, too, with simply reconverting that stuff before running the bad word check. But that's not really the sense, because the spam fraction will not need long to come around this, too.

So, basically what I'm currently thinking about is, how to build a (to some degree) reliable spam protection.

He goes on, discussing some of the other options for blocking spam (blacklists, greylists, vertification of the sender) that the package doesn't support yet. He's also looking for opinions as to other methods to include in the library for the future as well...

Blog comment spam solutions and the
coming arms race

Blog comment spam solutions and the
coming arms race 05/14/2004 10:16 PM

Jeremy Zawodny recently wrote something about weblog spam. John Battelle picked up on it today. Six Apart has just released a centralized comment authorization system called TypeKey. I've been thinking about comment spam for some time, and I've got a radical solution - one that I believe is the only one that has a chance at working.

I think that all these blacklists, etc are the entirely wrong approach. They will serve to create an ever-escalating arms race between spammers and bloggers, resulting in the wasteland that we have today with email and Usenet (anybody remember Usenet?)

The problem is one of accountability. Whenever you have a system where someone can insert an unaccountable message into a message stream, abuse always follows. This has happened with Usenet, email, and now blog comments. As long as people see some gain to be had for perpatrating the abuse, and the abusers are unaccountable, they will do so. The protocols are fundamentally broken: for example, they allow spammers to forge From: addresses in email and they allow comment spammers to add arbitrary content to arbitrary blogs. And the authentication services only serve as a minor deterrent - spammers are now using the prospect of free porn to get people to fill in the "only-humans-can-decipher" image codes (captchas) that spam blocking services are using, for example. It is a classic arms race.

Here's my suggestion: Turn off comments altogether, and let people who want to comment get their own blog. When they link to you, they'll get picked up by services like Technorati which will automatically show their comments whenever doing a search for your post. This is what the folks at BoingBoing (and many other sites) have been doing, and it eliminates spam because it enforces accountability - you've got to have a publically addressable place on the net where your words appear - and that place is owned by you. The cost of setting up the blog lies with the commenter, which is the way things ought to be. We're working on some ways to easily show the number of people who have linked to a particular post, in real-time, which will make it easy to show the interesting articles dynamically - e.g. "Blogs Linking To This Post (15)" instead of just "Blogs Linking To this Post". Stay tuned.

Now, this doesn't completely eliminate spam - for example, I could set up a SPAM blog, and create links out the wazoo to all of the major sites. For a while, the SPAM blog site will show up in the Technorati Link Cosmos of each site that it links to, but it soon becomes easy to eliminate - for example, the SPAM site will never get an inbound link from people who I care about, and that can be used as a filter on the inbound links page. The spammer (and his site) would also quickly gain a reputation as a spammer, and could therefore be easily tracked. For example, a set of spam-hunting sites could link to the SPAM site, and you could have a filter that only showed links as comments if less than 2 of the spam-hunting sites linked to the site, or any metric that you wanted. Think of it as a distributed slashdot karma system, if you will. And you wouldn't be limited to using Technorati for this, other sites could come about that do a better job than we do, and you could use them.

Some might suggest that this is a bad system, because people who wanted to remain anonymous couldn't comment. That isn't true - Accountability doesn't mean the end of anonymity, take Salam Pax's blog as an example of this. Of course anonymity (or perhaps pseudonymity?) does bring a set of challenges, like "Why should I trust someone who won't tell me his name?" but these can be worked through if the pseudonymous blogger proves reliable and trustworthy over time.

Of course, you may ask yourself, "If this Sifry guy is so against comments, why does he enable them on his own site?" I have employed anti- comment spam measures in the past, which are working for now. Since I don't get enough blog spam right now to make the tradeoff, but I have no doubt that the day will come. I'm also technical enough to know how to do all this stuff, and my goal is to fix the underlying problem in the system, not to just patch things piecemeal. And I'll admit to not being 100% convinced that this is the right way to go, so I'm testing the waters of both approaches.

And besides, we'll get a whole bunch more bloggers in the world this way. More permalinks are good. Comments and feedback are welcome. :-)

Porno patents

Porno patents 07/01/2004 01:48 PM
Hothothot barely legal XXXX trademark action! Fleshbot probes the depths of the US Patent Office registry for a penetrating view inside the kinky world of sex devices that haven't crossed over from whiteboad fantasy to production line reality. If software that fails to come to market is vaporware, what, pray tell, is an anal orgasm monitor that never materializes? Don't answer that. Link

Porno and Stalking

Porno and Stalking 02/04/2003 12:26 AM
A google search on my previous entry led me to an entry on The Avocado Couch that made me laugh. The Internet was made for two purposes: porno and stalking; and blogging was made for one purpose: unlimited, uncensored bitching...

Fox Porno News

Fox Porno News 07/06/2004 01:45 AM

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pete the porno puppet

pete the porno puppet 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
If you caught the Daily Show the other night, you might have seen the segment featuring a couple goofballs and &quot;pete the porno puppet&quot; trying to convert folks at an adult film convention. Their site, at xxxchurch.com, boasts &quot;the #1 christian porn site&quot; and like any porn site, they even get their share of hate mail. The guys behind it seem to have a good sense of humor, even though they're sure that porn is &quot;not what God intended for us.&quot;

Porno Hen Hawks for Burger King

Porno Hen Hawks for Burger King 04/14/2004 05:14 AM
Give Burger King credit. Its attempt to advertise chicken sandwiches on the Web by setting up an ersatz webcam porn studio could have been a cheesy flop. Instead, its Subservient Chicken website is a hit. By Chris Ulbrich.

3G: Colega, ¿donde está mi porno?

3G: Colega, ¿donde está mi porno? 07/06/2004 08:22 AM

What would Jesus say about Pete the
Porno Puppet?

What would Jesus say about Pete the
Porno Puppet? 05/01/2004 11:49 AM
Newsweek's Brian Braiker says,

This is a story i wrote this week about Pete the Porno Puppet, a truly bizarro PSA campaign that XXXchurch ("the #1 Christian porn site") launched -- it's an ad designed to convince parents to get rid of their porn stash so that children aren't exposed to it. The irony is that the anti-porn ad was filmed by smut peddler Jimmy D. Also, it's creepy as all getout.

Indeed. When I first ran accross the site a month or two ago, I was surprised to see they were (without permission) posting excerpts from an article< /a> about Hustler publisher Larry Flynt that I wrote for Wired News. Seeing your work snipped out of context to promote a political agenda you're not part of is almost as disturbing as... um... a talking, evangelical sock puppet that wants your porn.

Link to Newsweek story on XXXchurch

China Shuts Down 700 Porno Web Sites
(AP)

China Shuts Down 700 Porno Web Sites
(AP) 07/27/2004 09:13 AM
AP - Chinese authorities have shut down 700 pornographic Web sites in less than two weeks as part of a massive campaign to clean up the Internet, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.

Feds Launch P2P Child Porno Sweep

Feds Launch P2P Child Porno Sweep 05/17/2004 04:39 PM
Internet News May 17 2004 8:10PM GMT

THE PORNO-IZATION OF AMERICAN MEDIA AND
MARKETING

THE PORNO-IZATION OF AMERICAN MEDIA AND
MARKETING 01/28/2004 03:29 AM
"Hard-core sex stars are penetrating mainstream culture" .. The Porno-ization of American Culture .. A porn star

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Dutch web host aided porno typosquatter

Dutch web host aided porno typosquatter 12/16/2003 06:39 AM
Grilled by US federal agents

GLAY'z Hardcore Porno Heading to Sony
PSP

GLAY'z Hardcore Porno Heading to Sony
PSP 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

Japanese porno peddler GLAY'z is releasing five hardcore titles on the UMD optical disc format used by the Sony PSP. While the titles themselves are worth noting, including the gems "The Nurse of a Big Breast" and "Erotic Terrorist Beautiful Body," perhaps even more noteworthy are the rumors circulating that the UMD discs will be region free.

Currently, all UMD games are region free, while the movies are locked (a movie purchased in Japan, for instance, will not work on an American PSP). We hadn't realized that region-free UMD video discs were possible, but it's good to hear. The first five titles from GLAY'z will be available in July.

Japanese company to publish erotica for PSP [GameIndustryBIZ]

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

El porno y la copia como motores del
cambio social

El porno y la copia como motores del
cambio social 08/03/2004 07:36 PM

Campus Party según "El Pais": porno y
pirateo

Campus Party según "El Pais": porno y
pirateo 08/01/2004 09:41 AM

Amenaza de cadena perpetua en China por
distribuir porno en Internet

Amenaza de cadena perpetua en China por
distribuir porno en Internet 09/07/2004 09:39 PM

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