The depth of concern about the search industry's practices was made clear at a conference earlier this year, where participants stressed the need for policies to protect websites dependent on the engines.
The focus of the hearing was a proposal drafted by the FTC that would basically turn the agency's investigators into spam cops. Senator Ron Wyden, who has co-sponsored a different antispam bill, called spam a "scourge" that is "threatening to...
Working at the edge of the network, or the point at which a corporate network connects to the internet, the anti-spam router looks at the actual packets of information in messages and determines which ones are likely to have come from a spammer.
One issue the candidates address is the protection of intellectual property on the internet, including what policies should be put in place to protect intellectual property - while still helping to spur the free flow of ideas based on those...
This gateway approach is because companies see the value of blocking viruses and spam but don't yet see the value of blocking offensive messages, or the threat to the business of not doing so. In most organisations internal messaging is not so...
If the researcher takes the offer, the rights to the bug report are signed over to TippingPoint, Endler said. If a valid bug is found, TippingPoint will notify the maker of the flawed product and update its security products to protect users...