Will spam kill the net as we know it?<\/p>\n
In a previous entry (Overcome with Spam<\/a>) I commented on spam\/sporn is changing what we can do. Here is a scary dissection of a spam greeting card e-mail: Ecard-hijack spam<\/a>. <\/p>\n It stuck me back in December that e-cards were dead when I began to get spam claiming to be e-cards. Now I wonder if this is not sweeping net culture. Any bright idea or service that depends on people trying out (and trusting) unknown others becomes a trojan horse for viruses. At what point do we basically stop doing anything except with trusted entities? When that happens the Internet as a democratizing (in the sense of connecting people laterally outside of exising hierarchies) force dies. At that point we lose the global “inter”net and move to forms of intra\/extra nets that are limited gated communities. – I couldn’t brown the web. I would only go to sites suggested by trusted reviewers.<\/p>\n – I couldn’t trust e-mail. I would only accept mail from trusted people.<\/p>\n – I couldn’t put machine on the net – I would use a fire-engine to do network activity. (Where a fire-engine is a computer meant only for networked activity – one step beyond a fire-wall.)<\/p>\n – I would cry for what has been lost. <\/p>\n If sounds crazy think of how many communities of trust have been terminated by vandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will spam kill the net as we know it? In a previous entry (Overcome with Spam) I commented on spam\/sporn is changing what we can do. Here is a scary dissection of a spam greeting card e-mail: Ecard-hijack spam. It stuck me back in December that e-cards were dead when I began to get spam … Continue reading Spam and Greeting Cards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWhat would I not be able to do if I couldn’t trust the net?<\/p>\n