http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-10T11:36:02-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/10/the_return_of_political_spam.php Spam is back in politics. But this time, the industry insists, it's different. This time it's e-mail marketing. Leading the charge is an outfit called Advocacy Inc., headed by Roger Alan Stone (he uses Alan so you won't confuse him... 48302@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-02-10T11:36:02-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/05/aol_yahoo_will_sell_you_out_for_a_penny_maybe_less.php AOL and Yahoo have begun offering corporations "preferential delivery" of their marketing e-mails to users for prices ranging from .25-1 cent per message. The scam is being run by Goodmail Systems, whose home page advertises "if it's certified, it's safe."... 47822@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-02-05T10:32:24-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/25/porn_fight_kills_the_email_guy.php Everyone hates spam. But there has been no political constituency potent enough to fight the well-organized Direct Marketing Association, which has successfully defended spammers from meaningful regulation for a decade. Now Matthew Prince, a young Chicago lawyer, thinks he has... 47076@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-01-25T08:27:48-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/4_years_for_spammer_how_much_for_his_enablers.php California spammer Jeanson James Ancheta, who turns out to be a 20-year old kid, has pled guilty to computer misuse and fraud charges which should draw him a four-year sentence. Good. Ancheta is the first to be convicted of creating... 46990@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-01-24T12:57:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/15/phishing_and_terrorism.php John Robb, at his Global Guerillas site, today has one of his most fascinating posts yet, a comparison between terrorism networks and phishing networks. He starts with an analysis of the phishing business from Chris Abad of Cloudmark, which found... 37968@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-15T12:48:18-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/30/final_exam_for_canspam.php Since its passage the CAN-SPAM act has done more to enable spam than any other act by anyone. It legalized specific forms of spam, it overturned stiffer state laws, and it has gone unenforced. The primary enforcement of this "law"... 37544@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2005-10-30T19:12:56-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/24/off_line.php Regular readers of this space may wonder where I've gone. There's a story there. It starts Friday evening, when a sudden lightning strike knocked me offline. Turned out that my phone service was knocked out -- not the cable, not... 37248@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ personal 2005-10-24T13:23:15-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/08/09/fox_calls_for_better_henhouse_security.php SMS.Ac is hoping for a PR boost from a press release offering a cellular customer bill of rights. (The release went out over the signature of CEO Michael Pousti, right. from sms-report.com.) But this had many of us falling out... 8882@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2005-08-09T12:57:20-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/07/16/americas_shame_spam_war_heats_up_again.php That's the title of the most "popular" spam in my inbox right now, and maybe in your inbox as well. It represents a new form of brazenness by U.S. spammers against the Net, because when you input the phone number... 8837@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2005-07-16T11:22:41-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/07/13/my_personal_spam_war.php E-mail service here may experience some delays as I undergo a personal trial by spam. In this case it's a Joe Jobber, most likely a spam gang, that has grabbed both my e-mail address and my server's IP address to... 8829@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2005-07-13T12:52:14-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/07/05/kill_joe_pt_1.php I was Joe Jobbed again this weekend. The Joe Job was named for its original victim, a man named Joe Doll of Joes.Com. It means your e-mail address is forged as the "from" address for a spam e-mailing, and you... 8810@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2005-07-05T09:26:56-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/06/30/congressional_spam.php I just got my first piece of franked spam. It came from Rep. Madilyn Musgrave of Colorado. (That's her, from a Congressional Web site.) I don't know how, but my Mindspring address somehow landed on her Congressional e-mail list. The... 8806@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2005-06-30T15:01:45-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/06/27/the_hedy_lamarr_of_early_tv.php By the time Paul Winchell died, last weekend at 82, the BBC was only able to point out that he had done the voice of Tigger for Disney. He was so much more. Like Hedy Lamarr, who created the technology... 8792@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ History 2005-06-27T10:45:23-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/06/16/death_of_rss_keywords.php For the last few months I have had a keyword search on Newsgator covering topics of interest here, things like cellular telephony and open source. (Last call to buy the book.) I have watched as it has gradually become worse... 8783@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-06-16T09:57:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/06/01/uncounted_costs_of_spam.php When we count the costs of spam we usually think in terms of bandwidth, the hours spent clearing it out of our systems, and (sometimes) the cost of our anti-spam solution sets. But there are other, uncounted costs to spam... 8749@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2005-06-01T11:38:23-05:00