Sadly, today is the 30th birthday of spam. I seem to remember that you should never trust anyone over 30.
Email providers are largely distinguished today by their ability to accurately filter out spam. There is a huge of amount of absolute crap that is sent, but most of this is easy to handle. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'security'
The birthday of spam
May 2nd, 2008 ·
Tags: The internet · security
When hackers have offspring
March 27th, 2008 ·
Disclaimer: this is unrelated to my own child (I think)
I recently came across the following cartoon, which is a joke that is so obscure that few people will get it (you need to know what sql injection attacks are). Still, if Frank Zappa could name his daughter “Moon Unit” (sister of Dweezil), and David [...]
Tags: Amusements · security
PageRank as economic utility function
February 28th, 2008 ·
I’ve written in the past about the interpretation of the PageRank probability distribution as an economic utility function. Recall that one interpretation is PageRank(url) = probability that a random surfer arrives at the url. This can be used to estimating monetary value for advertising on the page, because it is correlated to the [...]
Tags: Research · The internet · security