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Understanding Privacy 164

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @07:40PM from the information-available-but-not-to-you dept.

privacyprof writes "Slashdot readers familiar with Professor Daniel J. Solove's essay, 'I've Got Nothing to Hide and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy,' might be interested in his new book, Understanding Privacy, which develops many of the ideas in that essay. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, there has been a great struggle to define privacy, with many conceding that the task is virtually impossible. The book argues there are multiple forms of privacy, related to one another by 'family resemblances.' It explains the framework for understanding privacy which was briefly discussed in the 'Nothing to Hide' essay. The book covers the framework in greater depth and explores how it applies to a wide array of privacy issues, such as data mining, surveillance, data security, and consumer privacy. Chapter 1 is available for free download."

Comment sorbs is one the best blacklists out there (Score 3, Informative) 226

by cyberfoxz on Friday January 05, 2007 @08:42AM (#17471994) Attached to: SORBS - Is There a Better Spam Blacklist?

I work at the abuse dept. of a large dutch ISP and we rely heavily on sorbs. When I started working there one of my collegues convinced us that there is no way you could be able to contact sorbs and I thought that to be true. We found out however that it is really not that hard to get in touch with them and if you follow their guidlines, you never have to pay for delisting. The paying part is mainly to scare of spammers delisting adresses they do not own. They use a smal set of totaly acceptable rules to delist adresses from their DUL list (if u use a mailserver on a dynamic adres, go get a static one. If you can't, you should be using your ISP's mailserver). Their rules:
1. Only the owner of the adress space may contact them, as listed in one of the five RIR databases (RIPE, ARIN etc). We always use abuse@isp.com, because this is a known adress in RIPE.
2. The IP adress must be known as static and have a PTR-record stating it is static (mail.domain.com is acceptable).
3. It must have a correct A-record.
4. The TTL in of the A-record must be 86400 sec.
If you contact them in the way they wish to be contacted (just read their website, it's not that hard), they will delist you in 24-48 hours. However, if you aren't the owner of the adress space or the simple rules are not followed, your request wil be ignored. Everyone who thinks they can't get through to sorbs just isn't reading their guidelines, it's that simple.

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