Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
As FTC's email authentication summit takes place today in Washington (together with IETF's 61st meeting), several interesting things are afoot. First of all, the "industry" published a letter of support for Sender-ID including a signature from Meng Wong, the author of SPF. Declan McCullagh of CNET reported today on the ...
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Monday, September 27th, 2004
FTC and NIST will be hosting an E-mail Authentication Summit on November 9th and 10th. Incidently this is the same week as IETF's 61st conference and also in Washington. More information at the FTC and GrokLaw.
Of course the main question is whether Uncle Sam will mandate a specific standard.
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Monday, September 27th, 2004
According to an InfoWorld article Microsoft is beginning to charge to the interface between Hotmail and Microsoft Outlook because of spammer abuse:
Microsoft is making the move not to increase the number of paying Hotmail users but because the feature is being abused by senders of spam, said Brooke Richardson, lead ...
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
While reading some mailing lists posts about email authentication and reputation an interesting thought occured to me. Ebay's feedback system, while imperfect, does present a sucessful reputation system in the online world. Perhaps we can learn something from them.
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Saturday, September 18th, 2004
My former co-chair as the ASRG, John Levine, published an analysis of Sender-ID?s patent application. Along with other opinions offered in the MARID WG, it seems that the patent may very well cover SPF Classis which only does MAIL FROM checking. Considering that Paul Vixie?s and David Green?s drafts predate ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2004
Copyright ? 2004 Yakov Shafranovich (asrg@shaftek.org). This article is under a different copyright than the rest of this blog. This article was originally published at CircleID.
Part II
While everything seemed fine and various participants in these discussions were celebrating the merger of these proposals into one, as well as the support ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2004
Copyright ? 2004 Yakov Shafranovich (asrg@shaftek.org). This article is under a different copyright than the rest of this blog. This article was originally published in CircleID.
Part I
A long long time ago when the Internet was still young and most people were still using clunky Apples, PCs and mainframes; two documents ...
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Thursday, August 26th, 2004
Going over Microsoft's FAQ on their new Sender-ID license, I noticed the following statement:
The original CallerID patent application was filed long before Microsoft made a decision to contribute its CallerID specification to the IETF
The original Caller ID specification was submitted to the IETF sometime around the Spring of 2004, after ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
An article at ZD Net (via SlashDot) mentions the increased use of humans to perpertate ad fraud:
A growing alternative employs low-cost workers who are hired in China, India and other countries to click on text links and other ads.
A while back I mentioned the use of free porn sites to ...
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Friday, July 2nd, 2004
Another example of interesting spam arrived in my inbox today. The interesting part is that it was addressed to an email address at my domain that is only used in one place - WHOIS records. My registrar uses a CAPTCHA (reverse Turing test) during WHOIS lookups but they managed to ...
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