“To Beat Spam, Turn Its Own Weapons Against It”
January 25, 2010 | Jim GIles, New Scientist
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Spammers' own trickery has been used to develop an "effectively perfect" method for blocking the most common kind of spam, a team of computer scientists claims. Most of the billions of spam messages sent each day originate in networks of compromised computers, called botnets. Unbeknown to their owners, the machines quietly run malicious software in the background that pumps out spam.
“Boffins Birth Uber ‘Net Neutrality’ Dowser”
January 22, 2010 | Cade Metz, The Register
Researchers with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California have unveiled a completed version of their Netalyzr service, a tool designed to detect when your ISP is interfering with your net connection. The web-based service has been available as a beta since the middle of last year, but it's now set to collect mountains of data for a National Science Foundation-funded project that seeks to determine the state of so-called net neutrality.