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Showing posts with label spam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spam. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2012

Software Problems in Filtering and censoring Internet

Post from Internet Censorship Voyager Blog.

I really find it hard to tackle the problem of keyword filtering and removing objectionable contents from the Internet servers as big as yahoo, google, Facebook etc. 


With more than billions of Internet users let’s see what are problems:

1. Billions of Internet users around the globe
2. Thousands of cultural diversities across the globe
3. Millions of line posted every hour over the internet
4. Approximately 11 hours video upload every third minute across the globe
5. Tweets, status updates, messages, forwarding, comes in a real time environment. So who will keep track of these things
6. What is objectionable may not be objectionable for other and vice-versa
7. Age old problems like “Adult content removal” is still not successful, who the hell can develop an “Offensive content removal” system. Hat’s off to law making people. They think programming just like passing a bill in legislature, or just finding a mistake in law that could convict an innocent or help escape a murderer.
8. Google indexes websites by their webbots (crawlers). But now a filtered Indexing has to be done. So now thousands of daily complaints by webmasters will come, why their websites was not crawled.
9. Facebook has to re-invent ways to check status updates. Monitoring (manual efforts and decision making also reuired here) will make your status updates taking time to come. 
10. DNS manipulations and proxy servers are very common these days and known to almost every informed internet user
11. Audio visual contents and text in images are still not possible to handle.
12. Any Language translations API is also not 100% successful till date
13. Bla bla bla
14. Bla bla bla


In addition to these also remember some of my thoughts that I use to share regularly related to Internet Censorship. Combining all facts I find it an extremely baffling problem to deal with.


So do I need to reason out more by logic? You all are better judges. 

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Hoax/Fraud email: Yahoo sevice account Closure Hoax

Hi All,
I have received this email twice and one of my frends also got the same. The message is attached below:
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Last Warning!!!!!Monday, May 16, 2011 12:02 PM
From: "Yahoo sevice account" Add sender to ContactsTo: undisclosed-recipients

This is an Official alert to inform Yahoo! account users.

We regret to announce to you that with the rate at which we have newly registered members everyday, our data base is getting congested and now we have decided to under go deactivation of all unused account and some other of our account we find error on for both premium and free accounts.

Every account owner that receives this message has encountered this error and will have to update his/her account with the requested information below.
Please be sure to click the REPLY button first before attempting to fill the info.


Name: ................
ID: ..........
Current Pass word: .................
Date of Sign up(Optional): ..........

After you must have filled this information and have it sent back to us, your Yahoo! account will not be interrupted/terminated and will continue as normal.


WARNING: Account owner that receives this message and refuses to update his/her account within the next 48Hours will be terminated from the Administrator's dept.


Thank you for your usual co-operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.


Regards,
Yahoo! Account Services

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Now frends please remember that these type of emails are all scams. Never reveal your identity to them. Some red flags to notice a scam as can be seen here:
1) See the Sender "Yahoo sevice account". Spelling Mistake!! Not even SERVICE was spelt properly
2) Another, notice that it was not send you personally. Rather it was send to undisclosed recipients.
3) Why would Yahoo ask password and id details from you. Dont they have these details.
4) A simple header search of email tells that it is not coming from Yahoo.com. Though it seems but it is very easy trick. I can send you email from NASA, Bill Gates, US Prez, Any Superstar official email id, Without even an effort of 2 minutes. Some times later on that ;)

So please be aware of these types of scam. They can also be categorised in Phishing attacks.
Take care.
And enjoy. Yahoo not closing your account!!!