Internet and e-mail policy and practice including Notes on Internet E-mail

←2019→ Months Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Click the comments link on any story to see comments or add your own. Subscribe to this blog RSS feed

Home 24 Jan 2019 What's wrong with this security model? Internet I'm moving some of my financial accounts to Lively, a fintech startup. We've had the usual chit-chat about details of where the money is coming from on the messaging system on their web site. It works fine, when there's something new they send me a note saying to log in and check my messages. Except that today they sent me a message through a third party "secure" messaging service. To protect the guilty, we'll call it Hubri. See more ... posted at: 15:28 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/sosecret.html 20 Nov 2018 DOHA and ZIPPO make forty five ICANN Forty five what? Forty five abandoned top level domains. On November 7, ICANN received a notice from the Communication Regulatory Authority of the State of Qatar that they are terminating the registration agreement for .DOHA. Two weeks before that, the Zadco company terminated .ZIPPO. See more ... posted at: 11:34 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/dead45.html 22 Oct 2018 M3AAWG and APWG do the best survey yet on WHOIS redaction ICANN M3AAWG, the Messaging, Malware, and Mobile, Anti-Abuse Working Group and APWG, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, surveyed their members about recent WHOIS changes. With over 300 results from security researchers, it's the broadest report yet on WHOIS use. See more ... posted at: 07:18 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/m3apsurvey.html 05 Sep 2018 GDPR didn't affect spam? Not so fast. Internet I have recently become aware of a blog post from Recorded Future that attempts to analyse the effects of the GDPR on online security. Unfortunately, it starts by asking an irrelevant question, and then goes on to use irrelevant metrics to come to a meaningless answer. The premise of Recorded Future's article -- that spammers would send more spam and register more domains because GDPR came into effect -- tells us nothing useful about how GDPR affects anything. It's the wrong question, it's not a question most security people are concerned with, and it ignores how spam and spammers work. See more ... posted at: 11:11 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/recorded-future.html 13 Aug 2018 How big is the domain business? ICANN When you're standing close to ICANN, the domain business may seem pretty big, but when you stand farther away, not so much. See more ... posted at: 11:00 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/dombiz.html

Topics Copyright Law - 21 Email - 221 ICANN - 125 Internet - 59 Money - 31 Security - 2 My other sites Who is this guy? Airline ticket info Taughannock Networks Other blogs CAUCE CAUCE welcomes Dave Piscitello to Board of Directors 17 days ago A keen grasp of the obvious My high security debit card 63 days ago Related sites Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Network Abuse Clearinghouse

© 2005-2018 John R. Levine.
CAN SPAM address harvesting notice: the operator of this website will not give, sell, or otherwise transfer addresses maintained by this website to any other party for the purposes of initiating, or enabling others to initiate, electronic mail messages.