http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from Suresh Ramasubramanian on CircleID en Copyright 2012, unless where otherwise noted. 2011-05-21T18:25:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/university_of_california_next_hard_target_in_never_ending_war http://www.circleid.com/posts/university_of_california_next_hard_target_in_never_ending_war More...]]> 2011-05-21T18:25:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/why_isnt_mobile_malware_more_popular http://www.circleid.com/posts/why_isnt_mobile_malware_more_popular excellent piece on the Enisa botnet report -- pointing out the current state of mobile malware and asking some questions I started off answering in a comment but it grew to a length where I thought it'd be better off in its own post. Going through previous iterations of Mikko's presentations on mobile malware is a fascinating exercise. More...]]> 2011-05-09T08:01:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/comcast_vs_the_fcc_a_reply_to_susan_crawfords_article http://www.circleid.com/posts/comcast_vs_the_fcc_a_reply_to_susan_crawfords_article Comcast v. FCC - "Ancillary Jurisdiction" Has to Be Ancillary to Something". I started writing a reply to her article, adding some comments I had and also reminding her that she'd predicted this herself, in an earlier circleid article, but it turned out long enough that I decided to submit it as a circleid post instead. On the whole, the facts agree with this CNET article. This court decision was correct, and expected... More...]]> 2010-04-06T23:08:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_drivers_license_a_short_history_lesson http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_drivers_license_a_short_history_lesson More...]]> 2010-02-11T09:23:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090721_networks_and_nationalization_with_respect_to_cyberwar http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090721_networks_and_nationalization_with_respect_to_cyberwar Networks and Nationalization and my comment there, I will go further in this post and talk about the "cyberwar" and "offense" aspects of her article. I think I made this point elsewhere as well... but before getting into a war, it'd be a brilliant idea to actually know that you can win. Cyberwarfare is the sort of game where you don't really need to be a huge government with the largest standing army in the world and sophisticated weaponry in order to win... More...]]> 2009-07-21T09:16:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/its_the_internet_stupid_i_disagree http://www.circleid.com/posts/its_the_internet_stupid_i_disagree It’s The Internet Stupid", Richard Bennett highlights (on the IP List) something I've noticed even among other advocates of 'Net Neutrality' (and how I've come to detest the term after its widespread and misguided overuse). Legislating against the concepts of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) or other preferential treatment of packets is not the brightest thing to do. I've seen others draw analogies to gun control using the 'guns don't kill people' argument... More...]]> 2009-06-08T16:08:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090126_report_fast_flux_hosting http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090126_report_fast_flux_hosting document was released by ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) for public comment yesterday. And it asks some fundamental questions while at the same time pointing to sources such as the Honeynet Alliance's reports on fast flux. More...]]> 2009-01-26T20:45:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/hk_the_most_unsafe_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/hk_the_most_unsafe_domains More...]]> 2008-06-06T04:22:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_name_portfolios_worth http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_name_portfolios_worth recent article in Domain Name Wire, "shares of domain name company Tucows are down over 15% in early trading after announcing earnings." Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows, says: "We delivered solid financial performance in the second quarter, which benefited from the sale of a block of 2,500 domain names from our portfolio." More...]]> 2007-10-23T21:03:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/hong_kong_anti_spam_law http://www.circleid.com/posts/hong_kong_anti_spam_law OFTA (in 2004) and then CITB (in 2006) issued requests for public comment about a proposed UEM (Unsolicited Electronic Messaging) bill to be introduced in Hong Kong, for the purpose of regulating unsolicited email, telephone and fax solicitations. We're a large (worldwide) provider of email and spam filtering - but we're based in Hong Kong, and any regulation there naturally gets tracked by us rather more actively than laws elsewhere. We sent in our responses to both these agencies... The bill is becoming law now - and most of it looks good... There's one major fly in the ointment though... More...]]> 2007-06-03T09:33:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_use_of_propaganda_karl_rove http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_use_of_propaganda_karl_rove DearAOL's blog, by EFF activist coordinator Danny O'Brien, is titled "The Shakedown Begins". In short, Danny receives email from overstock.com on an AOL mailbox -- email that he apparently paid overstock $29.95 to receive. And that email arrives with Goodmail certification that AOL recognizes and flags as such. Danny seems to think this is not the sort of email that should be certified by Goodmail, and that AOL should not suddenly turn on Goodmail certification. Suddenly? More...]]> 2006-05-12T07:20:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_on_goodmail_further_confusing_an_already_confused_issue http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_on_goodmail_further_confusing_an_already_confused_issue piece on the EFF website seems to be a bit of a pastiche, with elements taken out of various articles (some outright wrong, some merely misinformed) that have been doing the rounds of the media for quite a while now about Goodmail. She started off comparing AOL and Goodmail with the old email hoax about congress taxing email. That same line was used in a CircleID post by Matt Blumberg, CEO & Chairman of Returnpath... Various other quotes from different places - Richard Cox from Spamhaus on CNN for example. However a lot of the quotes in those articles are being based on wrong or out of context assumptions, starting with one that goes "AOL is going to remove all its existing whitelists and force people to use Goodmail". More...]]> 2006-02-10T19:46:16-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/objections_to_xxx_attention_in_high_places http://www.circleid.com/posts/objections_to_xxx_attention_in_high_places More...]]> 2005-08-16T07:48:29-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/actions_required_by_developing_economies_against_spam http://www.circleid.com/posts/actions_required_by_developing_economies_against_spam More...]]> 2005-05-29T09:38:07-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/port_25_blocking_or_fix_smtp_and_leave_port_25_alone_for_the_sake_of_spam http://www.circleid.com/posts/port_25_blocking_or_fix_smtp_and_leave_port_25_alone_for_the_sake_of_spam More...]]> 2005-04-17T10:27:00-08:00