Reuters is reporting today that China has blocked its citizens’ access to the English-language version of Google News, instead providing access to a special, sanitized Chinese-language version which it has arranged with Google. According to media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders, China has been blocking the English-language site for the…

As could have been predicted, Lycos Europe’s “Make Love, Not Spam” campaign is drawing a lot of sharp criticism. In fact, Steve Linford of the anti-spam company SpamHaus has been quoted as saying that “It’s irresponsible of Lycos to put its name to it because it lends legitimacy to [DDoS]…

Almost a year to the day that Federal law makers passed the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and sent it to the president for signing, the Ohio state legislature has passed, by 89-1, what is being lauded as one of the toughest anti-spam laws in the country. Acts prohibited under the…

According to a report prepared by Harvard Law student Benjamin Edelman, if you use Gator, now owned by Claria, you may be in a bit of a bind if you want to remove the GAIN (Gator Advertising Information Network) adware which has been installed on your computer by the Gator…

Ever wish that you had a resource which could tell you what to do about spam, why spammers spam, the history of spam, how to stop making it lucrative for spammers, and, most importantly for the IT professional, how to get your users to stop enabling spam? Well, then you’re…

Anyone who is even remotely interested in the spam issue, how spammers work, why spammers spam, and, perhaps most importantly, how the rest of us are contributing to the problem, and what we can do about it, should run, not walk, to their closest bookstore or online bookseller to pick up a copy of Danny Goodman’s outstanding Spam Wars.

If there’s one thing at which our government excels, it’s obfuscating, obstructing, and even obliterating information, particularly when it doesn’t want John Q. Public to have access to that information. Even with the advent of the Freedom of Information Act, there’s a whole lot going on which we don’t know about. Some of which we perhaps shouldn’t, granted, such as matters which are truly of import to national security. But what about all that other stuff?

Phil Leigh’s “Inside Digital Media” is a place where, according to their site, “you can see and hear interviews with thought leaders in the Digital Media industries.”

And indeed that is just what they offer.

Domain Keys is another flavour of email sender authentication, along with SPF and Microsoft Sender I.D., designed to help ensure that email which claims to be from Sender X is in fact from Sender X. Developed last year by Yahoo, and deployed last month, its primary purpose in life is…

Commerce One, a software company, has filed bankrupcty and is in the process of liquidating its assets. Among those assets are 39 patents for web services, many, if not all, of which are widely used today. This is causing several industry leaders concern, as they have incorporated into their own…

So many of you responded to the post about the U.S. government mandating the embedding of RFIDs in U.S. passports in 2005, that I felt that I should provide you with this update. According to the Washington Post today, the Bush administration has responded to the privacy concerns of privacy…

Lycos Europe is offering a controversial new screen saver to Windows users (and Mac, as well). Marketing it under the “Make Love, Not Spam” banner, the screensaver is designed to send requests to view a known spam source’s website. The idea is that when a large number of users are…

Computer Associates International has named Kazaa one of the top “spyware” programs, and in fact is saying that it poses a greater risk than any of the other top five programs on CAI’s spyware list, due to how popular it is. Kazaa claims that it has been downloaded 214 million…

As Aunty reported to you all earlier this month here, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) is going on a lawsuit blitz, suing anyone they can get their hands on who has impermissibly downloaded even just one movie. This week it appears that their wide-dragging net caught a big fish, as…

From our “How not to win friends and influence people” department: Derren Bibby, chief technologist at RFID manufacturer Noblestar, has described an American privacy advocacy group which has expressed concern over the proliferation of RFIDs into everyday life as “some kind of fringe group in America” and “the kind of…