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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Someday a Real Rain Will Come and Wash All This Scum Off the Internet

The Federal Trade Commission today dropped the hammer on Pricewert LLC, a black hat ISP that it says is responsible for all manner of Internet malignancies. According to the FTC’s lawsuit, the company “hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses and trojans. Fun for the whole family — especially if your family is the Russian mafia …

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Great Moments in Password Protection

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Web 2.D’oh!

“You’re an idiot if you use T-Mobile HotSpot.” That’s what Robert Graham, the CEO of Errata Security, had to say last Thursday about checking email from public wireless hotspots.
And he knows of what he speaks. Earlier in the day, Graham hijacked a Gmail session in front of a packed audience at the Black Hat [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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