Welcome to another week of Buzzblog, The Newsletter:
* LATEST BUZZBLOG ITEMS WORTH CHECKING OUT:
Security by letterhead only for dunderheads
And maybe blabbermouths, but definitely dunderheads, says security expert Bruce Schneier after passing along a conversation between a customer and an ISP rep who was demanding that the former submit his domain-name change request on official company letterhead.
Captcha-ing the power of porn
Getting guys who are interested in looking at pictures of unclad women to solve captchas and set up fake e-mail accounts: What could be easier? … It’s not an entirely novel approach, but a couple of security firm blogs have flagged the most recent incarnation of the scam. Trend Micro speculates that someone is collecting fake Yahoo accounts for spamming purposes.
Wikipedia at war with Web comic strips
A number have seen their pages summarily erased for the ill-defined and often arbitrary sin of not being notable enough. Some are fighting back, with one comic creator going so far as to urge a financial boycott of the Wikipedia Foundation.
Comcast circles the wagons
Caught in the middle of a firestorm over allegations – and demonstrations – that it is blocking some peer-to-peer traffic, Comcast is responding in time-honored corporate fashion: by coaching employees on how to spin customer inquiries and threatening to fire them if they talk to the press.
Harvard law prof ‘all in’ with poker crowd
Pentagon Papers case: check. Bailing out Julia Roberts: check. Lawyer’s next crusade? Freeing poker players from tyranny.
* BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE:
– Sprint doesn’t understand ‘unlimited’ either
– A change of mind about minding ‘Net ‘duopoly’
– Why does Fox News hate America?
– ‘They look like girls but act like boys’
– Boy with matches started L.A. fire, but …
