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Don’t Let Them Post Your Email on the Net!

September 18th, 2008

Most of you have heard the news that Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo-based email account has been hacked, and the contents of her messages, including some family photos, are now being posted all over the Internet, and even being quoted in the mainstream media.
Now I suspect this dirty trick was perpetrated more as a publicity stunt [...]


Newsletter #405 Preview: The Night Owl’s Spam Fighting Efforts Revisited

September 2nd, 2007

Whenever I write a column of this sort, I wonder if some of those spammers might just want to make a concerted effort to go after me, just to show “that old so and so” how powerful they really are. But it’s a casual thought, and not an active part of any paranoiac instincts. At [...]


Are You Taking Too Much for Granted?

May 24th, 2007

The other day I read the results of a study concluding that people were receiving more email spam, but have grown more accustomed to the scourge of the Internet. After getting those annoying offers for sexual enhancements, questionable penny stocks and so forth and so on, many simply consider it the price you pay for [...]