In other news

[unixronin]

Gallup cooks the books.... seems the number of Republican vs. Democratic voters in their "representative voter samples" have been deliberately loaded.

The IETF has sent Microsoft's Sender ID technology back for review, citing "vague intellectual property claims"....  (In this case, this apparently translates to fears that Microsoft may wait until key algorithms have been adopted as a standard, then file or reveal patents or restrictive licensing terms.  The Apache Software Foundation and the Debian Project have already written off Sender ID as unusable due to licensing issues.)

(Update:  koyote observes that AOL has just tossed the MS Sender ID out the window to work on Open Standards solutions.)

And Forbes warns about the vulnerability of America's business and government infrastructure to terrorist hacking, apparently largely because government agencies are bogged down in political infighting over implementing security measures or indecision about who will foot the bill, and because many American businesses are too tightly regulated or too close to the financial edge to do it.  (Warning:  This link may crash Mozilla too.)

So much for increased security in Britain:  an investigative reporter for the Sun successfully smuggled a fake bomb into Parliament after working there for only 11 days.  Nobody even bothered to check his fictitious references.

And last and least, Dotster is still giving away 25 free-first-year .info domain registrations per new or existing customer.  They have yet to show me a single convincing reason why I need even one .info domain, let alone 25 of them....  "But it's free!" doesn't cut it.

Comments

[koyote.livejournal.com]

And AOL has just tossed the MS Sender ID out the window to work on Open Standards solutions. Now, *that's* a chunk of your email market.

Indeed.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I saw mention fo that recently myself, but had forgotten. Thanks for the reminder.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

every 25 .info domains you get is 25 that a spammer doesn't!

Or, looking at it another way,

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

...every 25 .info domains I get is another 25 domains of mine that spammers can forge on their shit. :p

(Until there's a real mail authentication standard, anyway.)

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Meh. I did it mainly because I could. No other reason.