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Home :: Email 04 Jun 2009 Fight phishing with branding Email Phishing, the theft of personal information by impersonating a trusted organization, is a big problem that's not going away. Most antiphishing techniques to date have attempted to recognize fake e-mail and fake web sites, but this hasn't been particularly effective. A more promising approach is to brand the real mail and real web sites. See more ... posted at: 20:07 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/phight.trackback 24 Apr 2009 Canadian government finally files an anti-spam law Email Press reports say that the Canadian government introduced an anti-spam bill in the House of Commons today. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but since it's reportedly based on the recommendations in the report from 2005 task force, of which I was a member, signs are encouraging. I'll write more once I've had a change to digest it. posted at: 17:27 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/c27a.trackback 31 Mar 2009 The Jaynes case is finally over Email Last September the Virginia Supreme Court issued a surprise ruling that reversed its previous decision and threw out the state's anti-spam law on First Amendment grounds. The Commonwealth made a last ditch appeal to the US Supreme Court, which I predicted they'd be unlikely to accept. I guessed right, they turned it down yesterday, meaning the case is finally over. Due to the peculiar facts and history of this case, the decision would be unlikely ever to affect anyone other than Jaynes, and he's still in jail on other charges, so in the big picture it's just a blip. I thought the VA legislature had already passed a revised law that fixed the first amendment problem, but apparently not, since the state Attorney General says he's drafting a new law for next year's session. Even that's not all that important, since state laws are tightly constrained by CAN SPAM, and can only make things that are already illegal under CAN SPAM more illegal. The most useful difference a state law can make is to leave out the CAN SPAM language about awarding costs which makes a losing CAN SPAM suit potentially very expensive to the plaintiff. posted at: 11:09 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/jayneslast.trackback 17 Mar 2009 How hard is it to deploy DKIM? Email It's coming up on two years since the DKIM standard was published. While we're seeing a certain amount of signed mail from Google, Paypal, and ESPs, there's still a long way to go. How hard is it to sign your mail with DKIM? See more ... posted at: 08:32 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/dkimdepl.trackback 02 Jan 2009 Who pays for e-mail ? Email An acquaintance wondered why the people who run the systems that receive mail get to make all the rules about what gets delivered. After all, he noted: The sender pays for bandwidth and agrees to abide by the bandwidth provider's rules. See more ... posted at: 22:21 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/whopays.trackback

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