Privacy
An Average Email User Responds
As I mentioned in my last post, I asked my dad to have a look at Gretchen Scheiman’s MediaPost post. My dad is a baby boomer and I think is a relatively normal email user. He does not know (nor does he care) how spam filters or mail servers work. He calls me when his [...]
Top 10 Posts of 2009
So, yesterday I put out a list of the bottom 10 posts of 2009. I promised then that I’d put out a list of the top 10 posts today, and here they are (in reverse order — #1 is really #10). IP relisted despite no more mail being sent. It seems like I blogged about [...]
Bottom 10 posts of 2009
Everyone else is busy publishing their top 10 list of posts for 2009. I’ll do that tomorrow, but I figured that today, I would start by looking at the bottom 10 posts. These would be ones that you may have missed, or may have disagreed with. 47 USC 230 Explained in English. This was mainly [...]
Use Private Domain Registration and Go to Jail?
Image via Wikipedia As reported on Spamsuite, the 9th Circuit opinion in USA v. Kilbride, (9th Cir., 2009) has been released. This is primarily an obscenity case against the defendants for sending pornographic spam email. But, it also includes a challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 1037 on vagueness grounds. 18 U.S.C. § 1037 is the [...]
Guest Blog: Consumers Cautiously Optimistic about the Future
Today, we have a guest blog from the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE). CAUCE has been heavily involved in crafting a worthy anti-spam law in Canada, so I reached out to them to see if they would like like to guest blog here. Neil Schwartzman, CAUCE’s Executive Director, wrote back with the following:
What’s in your wallet? Spam!
In the annals of Bad Marketing Ideas comes this attempt by Capital One to define any mail they choose to send to be transactional mail: Kevin, a 40-year-old from Sacramento, Calif., likes to keep a tidy inbox. He’s very deliberate about removing himself from mailing lists and anything else that might clog up his e-mail. [...]
Sending email to wireless domains?
One question that I get asked a lot has to do with sending email to wireless domains. So, I’ll lay out the answer here for all the world to see: No unsolicited messages may be sent to a recipient on a mobile domain for any reason, period. Here’s the general rule from the FCC’s Order [...]
Earthlink and the devil’s spam filter
Macworld’s Christopher Breen speaks out against unnecessary C/R Breaking away from the traditional Q&A format today, I’d like to offer a small piece of advice to Earthlink customers: Earthlink’s spamBlocker is the tool of the devil if it’s not configured properly. feedback
Ameritrade Hack Settlement
Threat Level post: A central element to the agreement is a provision giving affected customers a one-year subscription to spam-blocking software. The Trend Micro Internet Security Pro retails for about $70. TD Ameritrade said it struck a deal with Trend Micro to service the settlement agreement for about $6 million, the parties told Walker in [...]
Infoworld wants what?
Infoworld Wants My Data It seems a bit strange to me, but upon visiting Infoworld’s website I’m confronted by this browser security popup telling me Infoworld would like to be able to “read private data from any site or window”. What makes them think they need this information? blog
