Xinhua: China tells netizens it's fighting flood of spam text messages
“According to a May report…cell phone users were each receiving about 13 spam text mails every week as of the end of 2007, up 50 percent year on year.”
CommentsThe Technology Liberation Front: The Safety Chase: Berkman Center’s Public Meeting of the Internet Safety Task Force
“Discussions focused mostly on what technical solutions exist for addressing the perceived lack of online safety on social networking websites. But overall there’s still a need to connect the most important dot—do proposed solutions actually make children safer?”
CommentsTheStar.com: PM targets spam, gouging
“In an appeal for support from consumers annoyed by high gas prices and computer spam, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says if re-elected he would move to curb Internet abuses, outlaw charges for unsolicited commercial text messages and send inspectors to check the accuracy of gas pumps.”
I’m fairly certain that this is the first time a major politician in any country has made spam legislation a big, visible part of their platform.
CommentsWashington Post Security Fix: Internet Shuns U.S. Based ISP Amid Fraud, Abuse Allegations
“A California based commercial Internet service provider whose clients included a laundry list of spammers and scammers is now offline, after the last of the company’s upstream Internet providers decided to the pull the plug.”
Though we came close in the late 1990s, this is the first time that a sizable network provider has been kicked entirely offline for being a bad citizen.
CommentsAngry Bear: Your Urgent Help Needed
“I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.”
CommentsIOL: Programme offers rewards to beat spam
South African “Spammer Bounty Hunter Programme offers a reward to members of the public who provide information that leads to successful prosecution….”
CommentsTelegraph: BBC customers deluged by spam after hackers break into mailing list
“A spokesman for the Corporation confirmed that members of the public had been affected after their details were hijacked from a list of people who had signed up to receive information about next month’s BBC Electric Proms music festival.”
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