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Entries from November 2006

Geesee

November 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

Another BlogChat type thing. I think it uses flash but looks nice.

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FBI Tracks Down Big Phish

November 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

From Techdirt: You would think that it wouldn't be that hard to track down phishing scammers. While they do try to hide themselves, in the end, there should be some sort of money trail leading back to them. However, for all the talk of trying to track these guys down, it seemed like no one […]

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Category: General · Spam

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Method of script based remote JavaScript function call of web page

November 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

Brent points out a joke of a patent (Patent 6941562) this time hitting very close to home: Beyond the obviousness, inspection of both the client and server side code for the patent reveals that most of it is copied directly from my JSRS library, published a year earlier, not only without attribution, but claiming it […]

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Spammers go island hopping to bypass filter

November 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

It is being reported lately that spammers are using lesser known domains in their links in spam messages. See this article for example. In the article they state: Using a lesser-known top level domain changes the game and makes it harder to distinguish spam from legitimate e-mail by examining the links in the e-mails. They […]

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