Stalking the Wild Gmail Account: First Impressions
Somehow, I lucked into having a Gmail beta account (who knew I had friends in those high places?) Here are my first impressions: First, Gmail doesn’t work with Safari; very annoying. It does, however, work with Firefox. I also found it frustrating that you can’t set up a forward, or…
Happy Spamiversary to You
Quick! Where on the Internet were you on April 13, 1994? Many of you are probably saying “Dude, I hadn’t even heard of the Internet in 1994! Had Al Gore invented it yet?” Others of you, however, will remember that date, exactly 10 years ago today, as being the day…
ISPCON Spam – Oh the Irony
Today I received a third..or maybe fourth, who knows, perhaps even fifth – I’ve lost count – piece of spam from, of all places, ISPCON. No, I did not ask to be on their mailing list, no I did not give them permission to put me on a mailing list,…
Gmail: email Gspot or Gmen?
Much has been made in the past dozen days about Google’s announcement of their new service, Gmail. First, the press release was leaked on April 1st, leading to wide speculation: was it an April Fool’s gag, or was it not? (It wasn’t.) Then nobody could believe that the world’s largest…
You Have the Right to Remain Silent…. Fingerprinting Email?
You know those pesky bounce notices you get when a spammer forges your domain in a spam run? Hundreds, even thousands, of bounce notices sent by ISPs all over the world, kindly letting you know that the person to whom the mail was sent doesn’t exist, is over quota, or…
To All the People Whining That CAN-SPAM Hasn’t Worked
It happens at least twice a week. Some reporter, pundit, or well-meaning but tunnel-visioned anti-spammer will point triumphantly to the fact that the load of spam in their inbox has not decreased – in fact, if anything, increased – since January 1, 2004, when the CAN-SPAM Act became effective, as…
Yes, Virginia, there is a Spammer Clause
The State of Virginia (the attorney general, in particular) is on a roll, with the 3rd arrest of members of a spam gang responsible for sending countless pieces of spam … not from..not to…but *through* servers located in Virginia.
Showdown at the Spam Corral
Independent journalist and Guardian columnist Danny O’Brien hit it square on the head in his dead-on and funny piece in today’s Guardian. O’Brien unerringly describes an exchange and the general atmosphere at ISIPP’s January “Spam and the Law” conference, during which noted spammer-hunting attorney Jon Praed asked whether there were…
Daily Show’s Rob Corddry Interviews “King of Spam” Scott Richter
Kudos to the Daily Show’s Rob Corddrey (pronounced Cordrey) for his deft segment in which he interviews notorious U.S. spammer Scott Richter.
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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq., is the CEO of the Institute for Social Internet Public Policy (ISIPP). The Internet Patrol is published by ISIPP Publishing, a division of ISIPP. Anne has been in the Internet policy, privacy and security sector since 1998, including as in-house counsel for the very first anti-spam organization.
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Spam Fighter Packs
Spam Fighter Kits from Aunty Spam and ISIPP Aunty Spam is pleased to announce, in cooperation with the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, the following Spam Fighters’s Kits. Each kit contains high quality MP3 audio presentations by top experts, along with their companion written material. Recorded over the…
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