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Home 29 Jul 2006 It's not spam because we're nice Email Here are some excerpts from an all too typical exchange I recently had with an e-mail service bureau (usually called an ESP for Email Service Provider.) It started when I sent them a boilerplate spam complaint, one of about a thousand a day I send for spam that either hits my spamtraps or gets caught in the spam filters. See more ... posted at: 21:52 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/notspam.trackback 20 Jul 2006 Another try at proof-of-work e-postage Email Another paper from the Fifth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, (WEIS 2006) is Proof of Work can Work by Debin Liu and L, Jean Camp of Indiana University. Proof of work (p-o-w) systems are a variation on e-postage that uses computation rather than money. A mail sender solves a lengthy computational problem and presents the result with the message. The problem takes long enough that the sender can only do a modest number per time period, and so cannot send a lot of messages, thereby preventing spamming. But on a net full of zombies, proof of work doesn't work. See more ... posted at: 20:35 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/hashpow.trackback Does pump and dump spam work? Email I've been reading some of the very interesting papers from the Fifth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, (WEIS 2006), held last month in Cambridge (UK). Rainer Boehme and Thorsten Holz's paper The Effect of Stock Spam on Financial Markets is the first analysis I have seen of pump and dump spam, and comes to the dismaying conclusion that it works. See more ... posted at: 19:35 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/pumpndump.trackback 19 Jul 2006 What's up with DKIM Email The DKIM working group in the IETF has been making good progress. We now have a draft of an overview document as well as an updated and, with any luck, final version of the threats document. The main spec for DKIM signatures seems to be close enough to done for a "last call" for complaints and comments. See more ... posted at: 00:18 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/dkimietf67.trackback

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