Net Nuisance ; Bushell on the Box
497193
By Garry Bushell  A BIG thank-you to Virgin for closing my email account without warning. All the nice reviews I'd written of Jo Brand and Louis Walsh were lost forever. Any company able to supply a better internet service, please feel free to get in touch.
26905
Plus: Spammers go to jail, and laptops get LED backlights.
70850
Deluge of unwanted e-mail greets workers, again raising questions about effectiveness of filters. And the onslaught could get worse.
575412
Internet decisions aren't always made at Internet speeds.
683758
Spammers have come close to ruining e-mail--and threaten to do the same to Internet telephony. The time to stop them is now.
185150
Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
63097
Also: Windows worm travels with Tetris [News.com Extra]
216335
A vulnerability in AOL's instant messenger could allow attacks. Also: A new Bagle variant rumbles across the Net.
87414
A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication, from the hardware initialization, through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely.
580227
Antispam activists disagree about the effect of the major federal court judgment against three spammers. Antispam activists disagree about whether a $1.08 billion judgment against three spammers in Iowa last
740178
Mike Elgan reports on a device that lets you rat out fellow movie-goers for being annoying.
585276
Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
465465
Spammers will find that the money to be made by bombarding computers with junk e-mails is not worth the risk. A Virginia jury sent a sobering message last week to the unscrupulous purveyors of junk e-mail.
14298
For those who dread coming back to an e-mail overflow, the solution is often to take time off from leisure to weed the in-box.
724391
Security experts warn of banner ads with a bad attitude--and a link to malicious code. Also: Phishers, be gone.
676591
Ziff Davis - Holes in KOffice and RealPlayer allow attackers to take over a user's system.
177933
As internet firms are doing all they can to combat junk e-mail, a new form of virtual irritation is emerging.