-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The L.A. Times.
[snip] It's the start of an Interpol for the Internet. The Federal Trade Commission soon will go global in its hunt for spammers, phishers and other online scammers. President Bush signed a bill Friday that gives the commission broader authority to pursue e-crooks in other countries. The FTC had pushed for more than three years for the new powers, which will help it shut down scammers such as the polite Nigerians who e-mail thousands of people a day with tales of woe and promises of riches to those kind enough to help. [snip] More: http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-foreignspam26dec26,1,275015.story - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFkWXbq1pz9mNUZTMRAs0NAKDOckGZOZAaY43gJuwfzUMTCtnJ2QCgnkfS mrjqIj7vk4jCBE1sVR3m5kM= =LaTV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
