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- Va will rewrite antispam law
- Va will rewrite antispam lawGood thing for the spammers......that the Virginia General Assembly won't be meeting again until January barring the possibility of a special session. Maybe the DMA can send a few extra lobbyists to make sure the issue never comes to a vote at all (after all,...
- Tags: Spam, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- Va will rewrite antispam law
- No surprise, now that the Supreme Court has rejected Virginia's appeal of a state court ruling that its antispam law is unconstitutional, the Attorney General will rewrite the law and submit it to the General Assembly, the AP reports. "We are dedicated to protecting all...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Antispam Law, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First AmendmentYour point still fails...Freedom of expression doesn't extend to having a legislated, forced audience!By the logic you illustrate here, it would be "illegal" or "unconstitutional" to1) not answer the phone or door, if proven that you were home;2) turn away...
- Tags: Spam, e-mail, antispam law, First Amendment, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconsitutional
- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconsitutionalBad, bad decisionThat court is flat-out wrong. Spam has nothing to do with the First Amendment. No one has any "right" to put their email on any server, period. It has ZERO to do with content.Spammers should pay.Perhaps...
- Tags: Spam, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Publius, spammer, antispam law, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2008-09-13
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- 419 scammers using Dilbert.com
- 419 scammers using Dilbert.comYou know, you'd think 419 schemes would be famous by nowWhy do people *still* fall for them? Quite aside from the cynicism factor this has been going on for years. Surely everybody's heard about it by now???Sometimes they're nearly believableI'm as suspicious about these spam letters as...
- Tags: INTERNET, Spam, Dilbert.com, scammer, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-07-28
- News to know: Conficker; CTIA; LotusLive Engage; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason O'Grady: Developers selling iPhone OS 3.0 on eBay Updated CNET News: BlackBerry App World has landed Ryan Naraine: Googling for Conficker clean-up...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, CBS Interactive Inc., Consumer Electronics, CTIA, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Facebook, Hardware, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Software, Thecus
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam case
- Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam caseStill think the case was wrongly decidedBut it's not my opinion that's legally binding. The courts have the right to be wrong, but not the right to be above criticism, or to have people automatically assume that their decisions are correct.Twisted...
- Tags: Spam, antispam case, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2009-03-30
- Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam case
- A Virginia antispam law is now officially unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Virginia Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state law that makes illegal all high-volume anonymous email communications. I wrote about the case back in September,...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; Microsoft
- News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; MicrosoftZDNet, aren't you going to fix the links???"Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconsitutional" directs me here!
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Spam, text messaging, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging Garett Rogers: Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts Jason Perlow: Microsoft: It's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Text Messaging, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment
- The comments so far on the Virginia Supreme Court's invalidation of a state antispam law have been uniformly negative. One commenter, for instance, advocated spamming the opinion's author, Justice G. Steven Agee now on the federal bench. If he gets enough spam maybe he will...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional
- The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....
- Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction
- What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws constitutional? The Virginia Supreme Court took that matter up in the case of Jeremy Jaynes, a particularly obnoxious...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, Spamming, Statute, Virginia, Jeremy Jaynes, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- After authentication of senders, ending spam requires a relationship managment protocol
- One thing that virtually every e-mail security expert agrees on is that there's no silver bullet to the spam problem. But if there's the equivalent of a hollow point bullet that can do the most damage what you want on the first shot, then authenticating an e-mail sender's identity...
- Tags: Domain, Spam, Authentication, E-mail, Online Communications, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Scamming the scammers: Web vigilantes work hard to bait email thieves
- Internet users are outscamming the scammers in a competition for who can be the wickedest Internet vigilante, reports the New York Times.Scam-baiters are taking glorious revenge on the mostly African scammers who take advantage of the unwary typically by offering millions of dollars in payoffs for helping them wire...
- Tags: Web, International
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- Leading ISPs sign up for Goodmail antispam service
- Leading ISPs sign up for Goodmail antispam serviceIt's sad that it has come down to thisWhile this may come off as another email scam, this might actually be the best solution when it comes to the next level of email assurance. The only problem with this is that the more...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, anti-spam, Goodmail, e-mail, spam, spammer, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2007-06-07
- Court sides with alleged 'vacation' spammer
- Court sides with alleged 'vacation' spammertheir statements come trueisn't this what a lot of critics said when this useless law passed, inundating state laws that were more clear on spam, and allowing some forms of spam to become legal. Our wonderful government at work again because they know...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Constitution, spammer, spam
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- Spam fighter hit with $11 million judgment
- Spam fighter hit with $11 million judgmentMore proof the judicial system in America does not work.The criminals know they have the upper hand and they exploit every opportunity available to misuse the judicial system in America. I hope those with the proper means take down e360 and all the other...
- Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spam Fighter, blacklist, judgement, spammer
- Discussion threads 2006-09-14
- Virginia court upholds antispam law
- Virginia court upholds antispam lawGood.NTMany times I like the ACLU, but sorry.... not this time..This dirtbag deserves every day in the slammer he gets. As far as I'm concerned spammers are pure scum and nothing more. Bravo to the appeals court.Awwww, ain't that a shame.I hope the scumbag's...
- Tags: Spam, SECURITY, anti-spam, Virginia Court, American Civil Liberties Union, spammer
- Discussion threads 2006-09-06
- Spammer explains how I got spammed (but I'm not buying it)
- Spammer explains how I got spammed (but I'm not buying it)Requiring diclosing source of email as effective enforcement?I am interested in the fact that companies cannot tell you where they get your email from. May be, just may be this is the key to enforcing antispam law: If...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, e-mail address, spammer, spam, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2006-08-15
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