Category

Crime

Beagle Author releases source code

It is being deduced that the Beagle author released the source code so that if he was caught he can claim that the source code is available on the net to help divert attention away from him. What is also interesting is the code is written in pure assembler proving this was no amateur. Expect a significant number variants of

Six Apart getting hit by Trackback Spam Also

Ohhh feel the love. Six Apaart get's to feel the same pain a bunch of us have felt all weekend. Maybe someone now will figure out how to fix this. You know Yahoo, Google, Hotmail etc have solved a lot of problems by making users verify they are a human by entering text that is in a obscured box. This

AOL and Microsoft take a spammer to the cleaners

I love these stories when Spammers get taken to court and then get body slammed. In a court ruling in Paris a spammer has to pay a fine of around 13,000 Euro's along with their legal fees (ouch). He has to advertise the court ruling on his own website and pay for advertising on the ruling against him. I can

Do not call 429,000 complaints in nearly a year

Seems telemarketers have largely ignored the do not call list. With nearly 65 million people who have signed up for do not call 429,000 have received at least 1 call and that's just the people that reported it. Seems the FCC could cash in if they would go out and collect the fines but some wonder if they have the

US Citizens in China living under censorship

We all know China censors large portions of the Internet and for Americans living in China this would in a word "suck". I have had to deal with mini censorship of sites when working overseas and getting connectivity thru network lines paid for by Uncle Sam. That comes with the job but to be on a commercial Internet account that

Yahoo blocking Trillian again!

I Love Trillian and I am not real Happy with Yahoo at this moment seems the idiots over their are blocking those of us using Trillian as our IM client. Who in their right mind wants 4-5 Instant Message clients sitting on their taskbar especially when the can run one program and have them all. It is a beautiful thing