Explicate Brooklyn

Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 @ 3:07 pm
Filed Under Dabbler, Security
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Not that there are no other fish in the ocean upon whom I can sling my hook, but who can be like my dear Betsy that loves me with such generosity of heart?

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Witty

Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2004 @ 8:23 pm
Filed Under Computing, Security
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Witty seems to have been an orchestrated attack, albeit using an opportunistic method.  The paper argues convincingly that we're using the wrong security model; if we don't change, the bad guys are gonna take down a lot of computers.  Doesn't matter if it's a prank or something really malicious, it's going to be costly regardless.

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PopFile Revisited: another thousand messages received; a new version installed

Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 @ 6:18 pm
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security
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All in all, that's a rather impressive performance. The increasing spam count is also rather impressive; after all, I added this tool to my kit because the junk seemed to be getting out of hand.

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POPfile: sorting the mail

Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2003 @ 10:16 am
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security
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I receive between 50 and 100 e-mails each day, and read about 60% of those (the unread ones are either duplicates or spam). I used to read about 85% of my mail; the change in percentage is largely because of the increasing spam load. (Eudora has a reporting function; these numbers have some relation to reality.) Perhaps 65% of the real mail has baseball content of some sort or other; the rest is on a wide range of topics.

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