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ICANN speaks up on Spamhaus litigation
ICANN, the current overseer of the Internet DNS infrastructure, has posted an announcement on their site about the ongoing court battle between a U.S. spammer and real-time blocklist provider Spamhaus.org. ICANN is claiming they cannot suspend the spamhaus domain name if the court orders it because it "does not have either the ability or the [...]
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Crimes committed through the Internet largely go uninvestigated and unprosecuted by law enforcement and regulatory bodies. Most highly visible is the plague of attempted fraud such as phishing for online banking passwords and advance fee scams like “you’ve just won a lottery” or “help me get money out of Nigeria”. System intrusions through spyware and direct attack also go largely unprosecuted, as do denial of service crimes and spam.
A few developments this week with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) give hope that things with that agency at least might be finally be changing.
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