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John blogs at: Magazine agent list theft spam June 18 2013 Scientific American is a well known respectable magazine that's been around forever. So this is a normal renewal notice, right? Wrong. It's spam from a crooked subscription agent. To: "JOHN LEVINE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN" <my e-mail address> Subject: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:43:01 +0000 From: "CUSTOMER SERVICE" <customerservice@publisherspayment.com> JOHN LEVINE, Please renew/order your… read moreBuying coffee via a series of tubes June 18 2013 When I was a small boy and needed clothes, my mother would take me to the Best's department store, where we'd pick something out, and then go to pay for it. The clerk would take the money and the slips, put them in a cylindrical container, and send them off with a whoosh through… read moreMore on Liberty Reserve and Bitcoin June 10 2013 Bill Cole had some interesting comments on my Liberty Reserve post which are worth following up. He noted that although all of the bitcoin transactions are in the public log, the wallets aren't, so if you sell someone your wallet, that's an anonymous transaction. While that's quite true, it also breaks one of the fundamental… read moreCAN SPAM issues in Zoobuh v. Better Broadcasting June 10 2013 Last week a Utah court issued a default judgement under CAN SPAM in Zoobuh vs. Better Broadcasting et al. I think the court's opinion is pretty good, even though some observers such as very perceptive Prof. Goldman have reservations. The main issues were whether Zoobuh had standing to sue, whether the defendants domain names were obtained… read moreI don't think I'll be unblocking mail from .PW any time soon June 10 2013 One of the managers at .PW sent me a note saying that (paraphrased) now that the world knows their customers are gushing spam, they're finally starting to set up some of the anti-abuse measures that they should have done in the first place. But then I got my first response to an abuse… read moreLiberty Reserve now, Bitcoin next? May 29 2013 The papers have been abuzz with the shutdown of Liberty Reserve, an online payments system, due to accusations of large scale money laundering via anonymous transactions. Many people have noted similarities between LR and Bitcoin and wonder whether Bitcoin is next. I doubt it, because with Bitcoin, nothing is anonymous. Liberty Reserve was designed… read moreWhy I don't like LinkedIn, part XLXXVIII May 29 2013 LinkedIn is probably the most successful social network other than Facebook. They've carefully positioned themselves as the network for professionals. I've been a LinkedIn member for a long time, and have 735 connections (all people I actually know at least a little.) Nonetheless, I am ever closer to closing my account and dumping… read moreBuy Now and Save
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