Saw this article from Dave Farber’s Interesting People list: Evidence of a new type of international extortion racket emerged on Tuesday with revelations that blackmailers have been exploiting computer hacking techniques to threaten the ability of companies to conduct business online. Sites have been asked to pay up to $50,000 to ensure they are free […]
Category: Internet
BoF on ENUM/SIP
There are many countries who have been experimenting with ENUM/SIP. At least I know the folks in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Sweden, Austria (etc etc) who are experimenting with ENUM/SIP. I met up with Yoneya a couple of days ago in Japan. So after seeing some of the JPRS work on ENUM, I suggested […]
On DNS Innovation … (again) …
Keith has responded to my entry again. Like him, I think it would be useful to air our differences in public. Whichever side you on, your own choice :-) “I say that his dns-search piece describes an outcome that is in every way similar to SiteFinder.” Yes. The goal is the same. The approach isn’t. […]
On DNS Innovation … (continue) …
Keith Teare responsed to my last blog entry so let me do a quick one to reply him. (ps: Yes, Keith is also a friend … great guy but we do disagree sometimes. :-) First of all, I like to clarify that I think Site Finder is a service which will benefit many end-users. But […]
On DNS Innovation…
A recap of the events… A few days ago, CNN reported an interview with Stratton Scalvos, CEO of Verisign on their controvesial Site Finder service and the need to allow Verisign to “innovate the DNS infrastructure”. Kevin Werbach, former counsel for FCC, promptly dismissed Stratton and argued that innovation should be done above but not […]
IP convergence eat away at voice services cash cow
Via ITU Newsblog According to the a Yankee Group survey, IP convergence is forcing European telecoms operators to re-evaluate market strategies and move away from their traditional cash cow voice services and circuit-switched networks to packet-based infrastructures. Amongst the 25 incumbent and alternate operators surveyed across 16 European countries, two thirds of operators expect traditional […]
SpamWar: Spammer 2, Anti: 0
I feel very sad today when I read on slashdot that two anti-spammer services are shutting down due to massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on their services. Monkeys.com and Compu.net joins Osirusoft in the antispam blacklists’ graveyard…ahem. Strictly speaking, blacklists aren’t useful in stopping spams due to its high false-positive. Blacklists, is at […]
“Oops, I did it again” – Verisign
A couple of days ago, New York Times reported that Verisign is going to modify its DNS infrastructure to redirect non-existence .com & .net to its search engine. Acutally, Verisign introduced limited DNS wildcard to do Internationalized Domain Names earlier this year and unfortunately, ICANN has not make any strong stand against it. So it […]
The many paradoxes of broadband
Found a really thought provocating paper on broadband today by Andrew Odlyzko. It is one of the most comprehensive studies made on broadband (albeit US-centric). “The many paradoxes of broadband” (50 pages) by Andrew Odlyzho.
Day 2 in Korea
Catch up with many people today and really glad I can make it. APSTAR Retreat was really interesting especially the discussion of IP Telephony presentations from Japan, Korea and Thailand. When MPHPT agrees to open 050-XXXX-XXXX for IP Telephony for at least Class C licensee last year, that was a bold step. By the end […]