Ray Everett-Church Quotes (17 Quotes)

Executives of public companies don't like to talk about spam, he says, because they don't want the world to know just how much it costs them. When part of your IT budget depends on whether Billy Bob in accounting signed up for a pyramid scheme, that's not something they like to talk about, ... With spam, it's an ongoing guerrilla war.

It's a fairly intricate, sophisticated way of using information about junk mail abuse to protect others.

What this points out, what this highlights is just how complicated the privacy issue is for even very savvy, well-intentioned organizations. You can have the best privacy policy on Earth and still be subject to the problems of technology.

Some comments called for the inclusion of an anti-skimming device that would block unauthorized connections with the readable chip to gain access to the data. The doomsday scenario has been the ability for terrorist to drive by several cafs to find and target the most Americans in one place, ... I'm not sure how realistic that is, but when you work with these types of technologies you need to play out some of the possibilities to calm peoples' fears.

This is the first instance where you actually must go and do a custom install to control them from installing other software, ... Most folks go to the default install and are not expecting to get a whole suite of unasked-for software. That's where the sneaky factor comes in.

The recommendations and conclusions in the report, we find are somewhat misleading in the way they seem to represent a consensus among the participants. The implication there was a broad consensus ... is just not correct.

The hidden check boxes during installation are a common practice for companies trying to further extend their reach onto your computer desktop, ... Companies have a responsibility to very clearly indicate what is being installed during that process and give a clear opportunity to reject software.

All the spammer needs is one or two hit rates per spam run and he'll be happy. Sadly, there are at least one or two idiots per million people.

I wouldn't be surprised if they just installed the software and weren't planning any dastardly activities and didn't know the implications of running this software,

It's an interesting offering. The concept behind the product seems pretty sound. If the recipient does not know you, then you have to essentially jump through a very small hoop that confirms you are a real live human being instead of one of those bulk e-mail programs. This has always proven to be an effective antispam technique in mailing lists and discussion lists.

This bill has all the earmarks of what we have seen fail in states that have passed anti-spam laws. Christmas has come early for the spammers.

There are a ridiculously high number of people who never budge off the default,

That's the constant trade-off between greater personalization and this one-stop for managing your life. You're making it easier to issue subpoenas or warrants for anything.

They're going to face some significant issues in terms of the capacity of their Web site, but they seem to be addressing those scalability issues.

Technology has improved incrementally in the last year, but spam volumes remain at all-time highs by most measures.

With the current deployment of VOIP systems, you're not seeing nearly the risk of spam that you saw very quickly with the rise and popularity of e-mail.

The government can't even claim that it's for national security. They're just using it to get the search engines to do their research for them in a way that compromises the civil liberties of other people.