Crime

Don’t threaten Spammers you could end up in Jail

Seems an individual lost his cool when he tried to get removed from a spammers mailing list. His mistake was making threats of killing employees and sending anthrax to them in the mail. It is frustrating at times I have…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce, Crime, Dave's Muse, Information, Security, Services, Software, Technical

The Big Gorilla Project

Spam is an ever-increasing annoyance for e-mail users. Most people have some form of spam filtering application that reduces the instances of the frequently offensive unsolicited commercial messages. Many of these filters seek to identify spam based on the address from which the message is sent, but spammers are already wise to this trick, and spoofing is now commonplace. By hiding or misdirecting their transmission source, spammers make it exceedingly difficult for most users to determine from where the spam message actually came.

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Todd Cochrane
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Crime

SBC challenges the RIAA on subpoenas

It’s nice to see a company stand up and fight the RIAA. When a organization like the RIAA can send lawyers and lobbyist to Washington DC along with contributing to politicians re-election war-chest on one front and churn out subpoenas…

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Todd Cochrane
Crime

SCO battle with IBM heats up

SCO has has there lawyers busy issuing subpoenas to a variety of companies and individuals what information they are looking for has not been released but one does not have to ponder what they are digging for. [ZDNet]

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Todd Cochrane
Crime

The new frontier digital bounty hunters

Microsoft it seems is set to put it’s money where it’s mouth is and offer a $250,000 reward leading to the arrest of whoever was responsible for 2 recent viruses. I am glad they are doing this but shouldn’t they…

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Todd Cochrane