UK ISPs blocking archive.org : due to another overbroad IWF block
(tags: iwf censorship isps uk archive.org the-register)behind the ‘interview with an adware author’ story : paperghost strongly doubting that Matt Knox was quite so squeaky-clean as his recent interview would suggest
(tags: paperghost security malware adware blackhat nasty interviews)HDFS Reliability : short paper from Tom White with post-mortems of some common failures of HDFS in the field, and some best practices to avoid them
(tags: best-practices hadoop hdfs dfs cloud-computing reliability software storage java tom-white bugs)Ross Anderson’s anti-botnet idea : ‘if you complain to abuse@ somebody or other dot com, and more than three hours after that, you get more phish or spam from the same infected machine, then you should have a legal right to claim €10 from them. No need to prove malice, no need to prove actual damage, just “here’s the bill”. A similar scheme has largely sorted out late flights, cancellations and overbookings among cheap airlines in Europe, because now you get €250 [if] EasyJet or Ryanair bump you off the flight to Barcelona.’
(tags: anti-spam ross-anderson via:derek botnets security isps abuse)Dual Pricing.IE : exposing the rip-off pricing of products sold in both Ireland and the UK, with much more expensive prices in .ie. Boots Sanex deodorant is the current worst offender, at UKP0.99 vs EUR2.99
(tags: ireland shopping comparison via:mulley uk pounds euro rip-off consumer)Spam Botnets to Watch in 2009 – Research – SecureWorks : interesting to note that spam rates from botnets unaffected by the McColo shutdown went up during that time, indicating that the spammers are simply renting botnet time and their spam is relatively portable to other engines
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