McColo and the Difficulty of Fighting Spam
CAUCE's own Ray Everett-Church writes: It may be a truism that "little things mean a lot," but in the world of spam, flipping a single switch can have huge consequences that span the globe. We saw that concept reinforced this past week when McColo Corp.,...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
by Neil Schwartzman"If I stay there will be trouble; If I go there will be double." — Joe Strummer (1952-2002)"We can be heroes, just for one day." - David Bowie (1947- ) Working in the anti-spam and online malware fight can be depressing...
CAUCE Executive Director Neil Schwartzman on CTV Newsnet speaking to Canadian Inactivity regarding Spam Laws
CAUCE Executive Director Neil Schwartzman appeared on CTV Newsnet November 07, 2008http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/spammed-out/#clip110343
The Root of All Email
by J.D. FalkThis week, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published a number of what they call "RFCs," which originally meant "Requests for Comment" -- the standards documents which specify the technical underpinnings of the internet. Two...
Virginia Court Overturns anti-spam law
On Friday the Virginia Supreme Court threw out the state's anti-spam law, and with it the 2004 conviction of large-scale spammer Jeremy Jaynes, on the grounds of First Amendment overbreadth. While not disagreeing that Jaynes was guilty as charged and convicted,...
CAUCE Executive Director Neil Schwartzman interviewed by CBC Radio
Earlier today Neil Schwartzman, the CAUCE Executive Director, did a series of interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio 'drive' shows. He focused on why Canada doesn't (yet) have anti-spam legislation, who is behind the spam we all...
ACLU, Anti-Spam Laws, and the First Amendment
by J.D. FalkIn an article published by the Technology Liberation Front, Cato Institute adjunct scholar Tim Lee dissects a recent argument by the American Civil Liberties Union regarding free speech & anti-spam laws.It's been interesting to watch the ACLU...
US Senate Approves Bill to Dramatically Improve Cyber-Crime Laws
The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Senate has passed legislation that would allow law enforcement to go after a much larger percentage of modern online crime. Specifically, it will: remove the requirement that each affected individual must have suffered at...
Eddie Davidson
When doing a job that you love it is natural enough to immerse oneself, to become somewhat myopic, about the relative importance and meaning of one's work, but every once in a while context is thrust forward, rending fantasy and reverie aside, leaving one faced...
Changes to the CAUCE North America Leadership
It is with regret that we note that CAUCE founder Scott Hazen Mueller has resigned his position as President of CAUCE North America. We are happy to note Scott will maintain his position on the iCAUCE (international CAUCE) board, as well as the CAUCE North America...
FBI and Romanian police break two phishing rings
In a press release today, the FBI said that in cooperation with the Romanian Prosecutor General they'd arrested 38 people who'd been running phishing rings. According to the FBI, the people arrested had sent out millions of phishing spam messages which tricked...
Anti-spam bill Introduced into Canadian Senate
BILL S-235 introduced by the Honourable Senator Goldstein was given first reading May 07, 2008.the text of the bill is available here
