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Saw this article over at Slashdot. Apparently two spammers are facing jail time. This case is only the second of its kind in the US. It seems the spammers' crime (sending spam in California is a misdemeanor) was using an unauthorized e-mail account on a server, then crashing that server (the server crash seems to be the felony). I wonder if they were just using annonymous relay or if they actually have an account.

Saw this over at SNN

While most would agree that redirecting a Web page is better described as vandalism than information warfare, a recent article posted by the BBC suggests that point of view matters more than the severity of attack. The Muslim militant group Hamas, who recently claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Netanya Israel, had their Web page redirected to a pornographic site. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, representing Hamas, views the attack as cyberwarfare.

It took ages and hundreds of thousands of complaints, but auction site eBay has finally lifted a finger towards discouraging the low-life spammers who trawl their site sucking up e-mail addys to add to their victim lists.

The company has now developed a scheme (simple enough to have been implemented ages ago, but we digress) to conceal the e-mail addresses of those offering goods. As things now stand, any registered user can learn another's e-mail addy merely by clicking on a seller's or a bidder's user name.

Some popular free Web services are playing both sides of the fence when it comes to protecting consumers from pesky marketers, offering to block junk e-mail while they help advertisers push promotions into customers' in-boxes.

The practice underscores a delicate balancing act for e-mail services, some of which tout features for filtering unwanted messages while they cozy up to advertisers with "opt in" e-mail programs--for a fee.

Read the full story here.

Saw this over HNN

Identity snatchers are becoming seemingly slimier as time goes on. Their tactics have also become increasingly more clever in accordance with the whole new world offered online. USA Today looks at some of the tactics found to be commonplace in the online arena.


USA Today

Saw this over at Ananova.

Before you click that send button, remember this: You can be sent to jail for spamming. Two men from LA were sentenced to 2 years of eating spam food (in jail, of course) after sending some 50 million e-mails to unsuspecting users. Seems that their scam almost bought Internet providers AOL, AT&T and Mindspring to a standstill.

Read more about this over here.

Saw this over at HNN