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SPAM mails – where do they come from? I’ll tell ya!

March 19, 2013
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Research done by Giovane Cesar Moreira Moura from Twente University in Holland shows that it’s just a few bad ISP’s (Internet Service Providers) that is behind most of all the spam and scam e-mails that the rest of us is plastered with daily. He has looked into 42,000 ISP’s to find “the bad neighborhood” on [...]

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How to hide your a** on the Internet – and why you should!

May 12, 2012
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Here’s how the Internet works: Imagine you sitting at home, writing a message to a friend in another city. You write that message on a postcard and deliver it by post, shortly after it arrives at the recipient and everything is okay. But underway, how many people do you think might have read your message? [...]

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How To Waste 150 Minutes With ISP Customer Support

October 9, 2009
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This has got to be the worst customer support experience I’ve ever had – ever! Pull up a chair and pop some corn, it’s story time. Basically the story goes like this. A co-worker calls me up saying his Internet doesn’t work. Well, I’m the CTO so I offer to go and help him after [...]

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