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Saturday, 07. September 2002

At kuro5hin there is an article by a guy called QuickFox about the different approaches to criminal justice followed by a lot of flaming about the so called war on terrorism. Quickfox wonders for example -as do I - about the habit in anglo-american countries to disclose the names of suspects.
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FTC Encourages Consumers to Forward Them Spam

The FTC encourages consumers to forward any spam they receive to the e-mail address uce@ftc.gov. I'd say if they've posted their e-mail on the web, they are probably getting as much as the rest of us already, which isn't to say I'm not hoping to see some discussion of using the statistical spam sorters to auto forward a lot to them in encouragement...

The slasdot crowd wonders what they ar doing with the stuff. If I remember a presentation at the the National (US) Cybercrime Conference right, they use it for statistics and also to be able to collect damages based on the amount of spam sent once this stuff goes to court.

Remember the Anna Kournikova trial: the prosecution could bring forward only 50 proofable infections or so. I guess the FTC would not like to get in a similar situation.
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U.S. Postal Service now requires ID to send packages?

Politech talks about the possibility of the U.S. Postal Service requiring ID for sending packages.
That's what I'm preaching for years. The postal service is used by paedophiles, terrorists, IP pirates and drug dealers. We need much tighter postal laws. Letters have to be screened regulary. The Ppostoffice should keep protocols for 80 day who send letters to whom ... really

See also this followup.
18:50 | permanent link | mail this

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