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[ NNSquad ] Spamhaus et al. [Sender anonymized by request]
----- Forwarded message from [] [Sender anonymized by request] Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 NN:16:47 -NNNN From: [] Subject: Spamhaus et al. To: lauren@vortex.com Lauren: It is with some amusement that I read the article about Spamhaus vs. Cyberbunker, and it's a story that hits very close to home. See, I work as an engineer for a reasonably sized ISP, who shall remain nameless. Recently, we've seen a major uptick in compromised accounts and virus infected PCs all putting our mail gateways on various spam blacklists. What is worrysome to me, not only "professionally" but personally, is we (as the administrators of a mail exchanger) is the increasingly invasive solutions we are having to consider to fight spam. We log every message. We log who sent it, from what IP address, and to whom. We scan headers and payloads for potentially "spammy" topics. We even retain binary attachments and other payload data. Whereas before, the Email system only logged trivial, non-identifiable information, it now warehouses every message and tags it internally with a customer account number. This is the "equal and opposite" reaction to blacklists: Total Information Awareness applied to our customer's email. I lose sleep at night waiting for the day law enforcement and/or a wiley cracker breaks into this treasure trove. Feel free to share if anonymized. ----- End forwarded message ----- --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad