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Information technologies have revolutionized the way people communicate and work. Most computers are equipped with the latest versions of MSN Instant Messenger, Outlook Express, and other applications that facilitate data transfer and access. Wireless devices, such as cell phones, pagers, and personal handheld computers, are found everywhere and used by top-level executives and teenagers alike. Although it's taken a bit longer, telephones are finally joining the wireless club with VoIP - a technology that converts analog audio signals into digital data that is transmitted over the Internet. Digital data is then converted back into an analog signal, so users can speak with anyone using a regular phone.

The biggest draws to VoIP service are its economical price and flexibility. In the United States, phone and cable service providers are offering VoIP calling plans that are often better than cell phone plans, and government agencies, such as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are considering VoIP service as an alternative to traditional phone systems. However, VoIP is not perfect. The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) - a public policy and advocacy group - recently published a report, Cyber Security for IP Telephony, that outlines several VoIP security recommendations the U.S. Congress should consider while revising the Telecommunications Act of 1996. As organizations become increasingly concerned over data theft and network security vulnerabilities, internal auditors need to assess the risks and advantages of switching to VoIP before organizations invest in this new technology.

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MSN Spam Postman Delivers Twice
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 26, 2005

As part of its spam fighting efforts, Microsoft today announced a pair of new services to help users and ISPs fight the deluge.

MSN Postmaster is a new online resource that Microsoft is making available globally in 10 different languages to help users and ISPs understand when and why MSN's popular Hotmail service considers an e-mail to be spam.

The Postmaster service provides a variety of tools and information resources that will help streamline the reporting of e-mail abuse, as well as improve the delivery of legitimate commercial e-mail messages.

Microsoft claims that its MSN Hotmail service has over 200 million user accounts worldwide and, as such, can provide a wealth of e-mail activity data.

The other new service announced today by Microsoft is Smart Network Data Services, which is currently just a preview release and only available in English.

The service is geared toward ISPs and reports on e-mail traffic characteristics sent from the ISP's IP range to Hotmail. The characteristics will help ISPs determine the volume of e-mail coming from under their auspices that is considered spam by the Hotmail service.

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Information technologies have revolutionized the way people communicate and work. Most computers are equipped with the latest versions of MSN Instant Messenger, Outlook Express, and other applications that facilitate data transfer and access. Wireless devices, such as cell phones, pagers, and personal handheld computers, are found everywhere and used by top-level executives and teenagers alike. Although it's taken a bit longer, telephones are finally joining the wireless club with VoIP - a technology that converts analog audio signals into digital data that is transmitted over the Internet. Digital data is then converted back into an analog signal, so users can speak with anyone using a regular phone.

The biggest draws to VoIP service are its economical price and flexibility. In the United States, phone and cable service providers are offering VoIP calling plans that are often better than cell phone plans, and government agencies, such as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are considering VoIP service as an alternative to traditional phone systems. However, VoIP is not perfect. The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) - a public policy and advocacy group - recently published a report, Cyber Security for IP Telephony, that outlines several VoIP security recommendations the U.S. Congress should consider while revising the Telecommunications Act of 1996. As organizations become increasingly concerned over data theft and network security vulnerabilities, internal auditors need to assess the risks and advantages of switching to VoIP before organizations invest in this new technology.

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Mediamatic/Special: Rambling Thoughts on Reality Engineering

How could you deal with the internet, master-infrastructure of our world, and totally escape from contemporary society? It's impossible. As soon as you think twice about computer technology, you end up thinking about how technology structures, shapes, engineers, designs society, your life, your interactions...

You all know the stories: the success of the peer-to-peer networks, the copyright issues that came from that and from the use of samples made easy by all the digitizing equipment. The sometimes horrifying stories concerning the regulating of the Internet; the spying possibilities built in software; the demand for better filtering. Or, on the other hand, the success of Open Source and Linux. You cannot but ask the question - also if you don't understand a lot about computers -: wait a minute, how do we want to work with this, how do we want to organize this world?

Working in this field, you end up talking and thinking about questions concerning standards, protocols - how are they designed and how should they be designed? How open are the standards and protocols, what do they allow and what not? And since you're not only dealing with the building blocks of your computer and your own little network, but with the protocols that shape or engineer the basic infrastructure of contemporary society, you get to the question: how's the Reality engineered by these protocols, these standards, this software, this infrastructure? What exactly is the connection between protocols and society? How should we conceptualize that interaction?

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MSN Spam Postman Delivers Twice
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 26, 2005

As part of its spam fighting efforts, Microsoft today announced a pair of new services to help users and ISPs fight the deluge.

MSN Postmaster is a new online resource that Microsoft is making available globally in 10 different languages to help users and ISPs understand when and why MSN's popular Hotmail service considers an e-mail to be spam.

The Postmaster service provides a variety of tools and information resources that will help streamline the reporting of e-mail abuse, as well as improve the delivery of legitimate commercial e-mail messages.

Microsoft claims that its MSN Hotmail service has over 200 million user accounts worldwide and, as such, can provide a wealth of e-mail activity data.

The other new service announced today by Microsoft is Smart Network Data Services, which is currently just a preview release and only available in English.

The service is geared toward ISPs and reports on e-mail traffic characteristics sent from the ISP's IP range to Hotmail. The characteristics will help ISPs determine the volume of e-mail coming from under their auspices that is considered spam by the Hotmail service.

(www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3508171)

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Mediamatic/Special: Rambling Thoughts on Reality Engineering

How could you deal with the internet, master-infrastructure of our world, and totally escape from contemporary society? It's impossible. As soon as you think twice about computer technology, you end up thinking about how technology structures, shapes, engineers, designs society, your life, your interactions...

You all know the stories: the success of the peer-to-peer networks, the copyright issues that came from that and from the use of samples made easy by all the digitizing equipment. The sometimes horrifying stories concerning the regulating of the Internet; the spying possibilities built in software; the demand for better filtering. Or, on the other hand, the success of Open Source and Linux. You cannot but ask the question - also if you don't understand a lot about computers -: wait a minute, how do we want to work with this, how do we want to organize this world?

Working in this field, you end up talking and thinking about questions concerning standards, protocols - how are they designed and how should they be designed? How open are the standards and protocols, what do they allow and what not? And since you're not only dealing with the building blocks of your computer and your own little network, but with the protocols that shape or engineer the basic infrastructure of contemporary society, you get to the question: how's the Reality engineered by these protocols, these standards, this software, this infrastructure? What exactly is the connection between protocols and society? How should we conceptualize that interaction?

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Information technologies have revolutionized the way people communicate and work. Most computers are equipped with the latest versions of MSN Instant Messenger, Outlook Express, and other applications that facilitate data transfer and access. Wireless devices, such as cell phones, pagers, and personal handheld computers, are found everywhere and used by top-level executives and teenagers alike. Although it's taken a bit longer, telephones are finally joining the wireless club with VoIP - a technology that converts analog audio signals into digital data that is transmitted over the Internet. Digital data is then converted back into an analog signal, so users can speak with anyone using a regular phone.

The biggest draws to VoIP service are its economical price and flexibility. In the United States, phone and cable service providers are offering VoIP calling plans that are often better than cell phone plans, and government agencies, such as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are considering VoIP service as an alternative to traditional phone systems. However, VoIP is not perfect. The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) - a public policy and advocacy group - recently published a report, Cyber Security for IP Telephony, that outlines several VoIP security recommendations the U.S. Congress should consider while revising the Telecommunications Act of 1996. As organizations become increasingly concerned over data theft and network security vulnerabilities, internal auditors need to assess the risks and advantages of switching to VoIP before organizations invest in this new technology.

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MSN Spam Postman Delivers Twice
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 26, 2005

As part of its spam fighting efforts, Microsoft today announced a pair of new services to help users and ISPs fight the deluge.

MSN Postmaster is a new online resource that Microsoft is making available globally in 10 different languages to help users and ISPs understand when and why MSN's popular Hotmail service considers an e-mail to be spam.

The Postmaster service provides a variety of tools and information resources that will help streamline the reporting of e-mail abuse, as well as improve the delivery of legitimate commercial e-mail messages.

Microsoft claims that its MSN Hotmail service has over 200 million user accounts worldwide and, as such, can provide a wealth of e-mail activity data.

The other new service announced today by Microsoft is Smart Network Data Services, which is currently just a preview release and only available in English.

The service is geared toward ISPs and reports on e-mail traffic characteristics sent from the ISP's IP range to Hotmail. The characteristics will help ISPs determine the volume of e-mail coming from under their auspices that is considered spam by the Hotmail service.

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Information technologies have revolutionized the way people communicate and work. Most computers are equipped with the latest versions of MSN Instant Messenger, Outlook Express, and other applications that facilitate data transfer and access. Wireless devices, such as cell phones, pagers, and personal handheld computers, are found everywhere and used by top-level executives and teenagers alike. Although it's taken a bit longer, telephones are finally joining the wireless club with VoIP - a technology that converts analog audio signals into digital data that is transmitted over the Internet. Digital data is then converted back into an analog signal, so users can speak with anyone using a regular phone.

The biggest draws to VoIP service are its economical price and flexibility. In the United States, phone and cable service providers are offering VoIP calling plans that are often better than cell phone plans, and government agencies, such as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are considering VoIP service as an alternative to traditional phone systems. However, VoIP is not perfect. The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) - a public policy and advocacy group - recently published a report, Cyber Security for IP Telephony, that outlines several VoIP security recommendations the U.S. Congress should consider while revising the Telecommunications Act of 1996. As organizations become increasingly concerned over data theft and network security vulnerabilities, internal auditors need to assess the risks and advantages of switching to VoIP before organizations invest in this new technology.

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Mediamatic/Special: Rambling Thoughts on Reality Engineering

How could you deal with the internet, master-infrastructure of our world, and totally escape from contemporary society? It's impossible. As soon as you think twice about computer technology, you end up thinking about how technology structures, shapes, engineers, designs society, your life, your interactions...

You all know the stories: the success of the peer-to-peer networks, the copyright issues that came from that and from the use of samples made easy by all the digitizing equipment. The sometimes horrifying stories concerning the regulating of the Internet; the spying possibilities built in software; the demand for better filtering. Or, on the other hand, the success of Open Source and Linux. You cannot but ask the question - also if you don't understand a lot about computers -: wait a minute, how do we want to work with this, how do we want to organize this world?

Working in this field, you end up talking and thinking about questions concerning standards, protocols - how are they designed and how should they be designed? How open are the standards and protocols, what do they allow and what not? And since you're not only dealing with the building blocks of your computer and your own little network, but with the protocols that shape or engineer the basic infrastructure of contemporary society, you get to the question: how's the Reality engineered by these protocols, these standards, this software, this infrastructure? What exactly is the connection between protocols and society? How should we conceptualize that interaction?

(http://www.mediamatic.net/article-200.6007.html&q_keyword=200.194)