Leading ISPs sign up for Goodmail antispam service
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| Five of the largest Internet service providers in the U.S. plan to
| start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their e-mails,
| in a bid to combat spam.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6189298.html
How about combatting the *source* of the problem? Windows Vista will have a
"critical" patch delivered this Tuesday (this has become a routine even for
Vista).
Saving the Internet
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| If enough Internet users begin to prefer PCs and other devices
| designed along the locked-down lines of tethered appliances, that
| change will tip the balance in a long-standing tug of war from a
| generative system open to dramatic change to a more stable,
| less-interesting system that locks in the status quo. Some
| parties to the debates over control of the Internet will embrace
| this shift. Those who wish to monitor and block network content,
| often for legitimate and even noble ends, will see novel chances
| for control that have so far eluded them.
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http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-article&articleID=R0706B&ml_issueid=BR0706&ml_subscriber=true&pageNumber=1&_requestid=5360
Related:
Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
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| "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
| botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
| of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
| harness more than a million computers around the world and use
| them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
| change."
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
http://tinyurl.com/39zfap
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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