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I received the following spam email today (a link on the email claims, falsely, that I opted in for it in October 2013) from the Christine J...

Spammer Julian Jaynes now gets off as a result of a bad decision from the Virginia Supreme Court , reversing its own previous decision from ...

Via Stranger Fruit . 1. Venison 2. Nettle tea 3. Huevos rancheros 4. Steak tartare 5. Crocodile 6. Black pudding (in Buenos Aires) 7. Chees...

This is part four of my summary of The Amazing Meeting 6 ( intro , part one , part two , part three , part five ). Phil Plait Astronomer Phi...

Jeremy Jaynes, the spammer who was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison in 2003 for violating Virginia's anti-spam law, h as ...

This morning Canada arrested 17 people of ages ranging from 17 to 26 years old for running botnets containing "up to one million comput...

In a press release yesterday that cites an article I co-authored in Skeptic magazine, a group referring to itself as "Anonymous" ...

Alan Ralsky, at one time believed to be the top spammer in the world, has finally been indicted today by a federal grand jury. His home was...

Creation Ministries International has put up a web page explaining the breakdown in settlement talks with Answers in Genesis : Unfortunately...

From metafilter : When Ron Paul email spam started hitting inboxes in late October, UAB Computer Forensics Director Gary Warner published...

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on the FBI's "Operation Bot Roast," which busted several criminal users of botnets : ...

I received the unfortunate news this morning that Clark Adams has died, and that he took his own life. Clark was a long-time board member ...

Ross Anderson and Tyler Moore have published a nice paper that gives an overview of recent research in the economics of information security...

Today I received the following email from John Martin of Phoenix (whose email address begins with "satguys01"), who was apparently...

I've got a couple of websites of hierarchically organized links that I've maintained for quite some time, though I haven't reall...

The TRUSTe program is supposed to certify that a website has a reasonable privacy policy. But Ben Edelman has cross-referenced TRUSTe certi...

In an attempt to offer something constructive, here's a version of network neutrality--let's call it Lippard Network Neutrality--tha...

While thinking about Jonathan Adler's presentation at the Skeptics Society conference , it occurred to me that the problem of botnets i...

At the Skeptics Society conference on "The Environmental Wars," Jonathan Adler gave a talk on "Fables of Federal Environment...

This post is an index to posts at The Lippard Blog on the subject of information security. This is probably not a complete list; I've t...