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Antispam Law Draws Backlash

• Comment posted Dec 30, 2011 6:46 pm PST — by Neil Schwartzman
  Thanks Terry, couldn't have said it better myself.

Verisign Seeks Authority to Shutdown Websites Without Court Order

• Comment posted Oct 11, 2011 7:06 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  Here is Verisign's ICANN submission http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/verisign-com-net-name-request-10oct11-en.pdf

Spam Continues to Drop

• Comment posted Aug 23, 2011 4:13 am PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  Ending? Terry, we'll talk about that over a beer in 5 years ;-) Heh. Terry - bring Bill along for those beers. He predicted a similar end some years ago.

• Comment posted Aug 17, 2011 11:10 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  TWO articles cross my desktop in less than an hour after seeing this posting Massive Rise in Malicious Spam - M86 Exponential increase in malware-bearing spam spells trouble for IT Statistically precise malware campaign promises headaches to the Nth power…

• Comment posted Aug 17, 2011 8:39 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  I have some reservations about your assertions and conclusions First off However, the amount of spam has plummeted from 23,000 in mid 2010 to 5000 now, a drop of over 75%. The contrast couldn't be starker — spammers are not…

Does ICANN Need to Evolve Its Code of Conduct?

• Comment posted Aug 03, 2011 2:24 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  in exactly the same sense that former Liberal parliamentarians 'served' at a "mere" $150,000/year their expectation was to get hired somewhere for top rate afterwards. one can safely assume the same mindset could be held by by the chair of…

• Comment posted Jul 28, 2011 2:23 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  CircelID doesn't have a +1 button so <aol> +1 & me too!

Is Cybersecurity a Priority? You Wouldn't Know It If You Go by Top Level Defections

• Comment posted Jul 27, 2011 10:04 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  One other stance would be that finally there is some movement in getting things done in the U.S. administration (contrast and compare, if you will the whitehouse cybersecurity bill http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/letters/Law-Enforcement-Provisions-Related-to-Computer-Security-Full-Bill.pdf and http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/letters/Law-Enforcement-Provisions-Related-to-Computer-Security-Full-Bill-Section-by-Section-Analysis.pdf and the Dept of Commerce: Strengthening Cybersecurity Protections…

A Closer Look at Apple and Location-Tracking

• Comment posted Apr 21, 2011 4:08 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  I can't figure out what the explosion was yesterday. Cellphone operators know where you are, every single minute of the day, and yes, they track it. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/media/26privacy.html?_r=2 Cripes, we see t.v. crime/detective shows ostensibly showing the use of this tracking…

ESP Compromises and Their Lack of Security

• Comment posted Apr 08, 2011 5:04 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  What we said and are saying <http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110404_epsilon_interactive_breach_the_fukushima_of_the_email_industry> is that now is the time for the ESP community to embrace _all_ of the best practices they have dithered with, to a degree, for a long time, like email authentication. That allows…

Mooning the Porn Stars

• Comment posted Mar 28, 2011 6:39 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  Joanne over at FSC wrote to me and pointed out that the FSC does have a blog with all sorts of materials at http://fscblogger.wordpress.com/ - it is really worth a look. - NS

No False-Starts, Do-Overs, or Mulligans for Email

• Comment posted Mar 17, 2011 1:49 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  The header would have the most impact at Freemailers. And no, despite dark hints to the contrary, there is little evidence of conspiring with marketers. Freemailers for the most part outsource their whitelisting to Return Path, who do a good…

• Comment posted Mar 17, 2011 11:14 am PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  I agree, Brett, but you must face the fact that you & I do not represent the typical email user, so setting flags, writing rules, and so on are a step further than the vast majority goes. Moreover, the bottom…

Blacklist Operations and Practices: Excerpts from an ASRG Draft

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2011 11:43 pm PST — by Neil Schwartzman
  Udeme is being polite in his description of the discussions over on the IRTF's ASRG mailing list. I believe the term I might have chosen would be RAKE FIGHT! One DNSBL operator, representing virtual unknowns UCE Protect, who charge for…

At the ARIN Meeting

• Comment posted Feb 19, 2011 3:56 pm PST — by Neil Schwartzman
  I was just re-reading this thread from some time ago, and it brought to mind a review of Professor Mewler's writing I think provides important context: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_5-4/book_reviews.html

Is Amazon Playing Chicken With Mailbox Providers?

• Comment posted Feb 17, 2011 6:18 pm PST — by Neil Schwartzman
  like ... snow shoeing? Why, yes, yes it is! http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=Glossary#233 Your point is well taken, until there is a domain-based reputation system (and domain blacklists like Spamhaus' DBL are part of that equation, trying to send mail from disparate IPs…

Precrime Regulation of Internet Innovation

• Comment posted Sep 26, 2010 7:16 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  Since Steve forgot to tell us who he is representing ... Search for Steve Delbianco Oh look, he is with Netchoice, an industry advocacy group. Who are they precisely? http://www.netchoice.org/about/

Cyberwar vs No Cyberwar

• Comment posted Aug 06, 2010 5:19 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/network/#/single/functions/cyber-ops/ seems like the U.S. is gearing up for a cyberwar, and has offensive and defensive capabilities.

At the ARIN Meeting

• Comment posted Apr 22, 2010 1:16 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  The Law Enforcement presentation was not inserted into the agenda at the last minute; it had been there for at least three weeks. As a privacy advocate who cares about actual (not theoretical) violations of millions of end-users' privacy by…

ClamAV and the Case of the Missing Mail

• Comment posted Apr 16, 2010 7:33 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  David Skoll of Roaring Penguin corrected me: Hi Neil, You wrote: "Roaring Penguin's CANIT, with large incursion into the educational market reported incidents of downed systems." Actually, we reported no such thing.  We anticipated problems and complained on the Clam…

Cyber-Spin: How the Internet Gets Framed as Dangerous

• Comment posted Apr 13, 2010 10:27 am PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  OK, this particular survey skewed results in a certain manner. That is what surveys do, most of the time. They often miraculously arrive at conclusions beneficial to those who paid for them to be undertaken. What conclusions are we to…

Domain Registrars & Registries: Don't Say You Weren't Warned

• Comment posted Mar 25, 2010 12:52 am PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  "For the domain industry, this COULD mean, for example, that the FTC MAY decide to issue a new rule requiring US-based registry operators to enforce strict WHOIS accuracy requirements. A registries' failure to comply with these new rules COULD lead…

North Dakota Judge Gets it Wrong

• Comment posted Jan 16, 2008 11:43 pm PST — by Neil Schwartzman
  Michele Neylon said: So basically if you have servers in Dakota you might want to move them! I'd be more about the 'figure out a way to blackhole all of North Dakota' just to ensure the safety of the rest…

Commentary on the FTC Spam Summit

• Comment posted Jul 26, 2007 9:31 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  You mean, like all the folks mentioned in the following news report? Seems the domain tasting, squatting and scamming area just got a LITTLE bit hotter! http://money.cnn.com/news...

Fight Spam With the DNS, Not the CIA

• Comment posted Sep 15, 2003 1:55 pm PDT — by Neil Schwartzman
  "Require legitimate DNS MX records for all outbound email servers" One wonders how to "require" anything on the net these days, given that even a multi-partite letter from the FTC, Industry Canada and a ton of other International signatories was…