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31 Mar 2013

Verisign doesn't think the net is ready for a thousand new TLDs Internet

Yesterday Verisign sent ICANN a most interesting white paper called New gTLD Security and Stability Considerations. They also filed a copy with the SEC as an 8-K, a document that their stockholders should know about,

It's worth reading the whole thing, but in short, their well-supported opinion is that the net isn't ready for all the new TLDs, and even if they were, ICANN's processes or lack thereof will cause other huge problems.

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  posted at: 02:05 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/vznewtld.html

01 Mar 2013

Leak of the week: dropbox Email

A friend and I were corresponding about the many otherwise legitimate companies who leak addresses to spammers, such as the Economist and the IEEE.

He was surprised to note that his Dropbox address was now getting spam, I looked at the logs and what do you know, starting this Tuesday I was too, I just hadn't noticed because it was all so spammy it got caught by content filters. Tsk, tsk.

Looking at previous mail, I don't see any of it coming from an ESP, so it seems to have been an internal leak. Double tsk, tsk.


  posted at: 17:53 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/leak3.html

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