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Help David Ritz

Please donate to David Ritz's legal defense fund. Why? Read this . (My post also got picked up by CircleID and Slashdot .) Read this , too. How? Go here . (It's managed by Ed Falk, whom I find trustworthy.) It's good to help David, and that's a good reason to donate. But another good reason is if you're like me and you work in email or network security, you've…
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Excellent comment(s) on the Ritz affair

First, swing over to Ed Falk's site to read a really good comment from a Slashdot reader. Then, check out this most excellent response to trolling criticism on my CircleID post. Written by Brian McNett, it examines the blurred intersections and transitions between vigila…

David Ritz Story Gets Press

My recent post on Sierra vs David Ritz got picked up by CircleID (with my permission), and then by Slashdot ! Don’t forget to surf on over to the CircleID copy to see the ongoing discussion in comments . Lots of good stuff, plus a couple of trolls. Pretty typical, as these …

North Dakota Judge Gets it Wrong

....WAY wrong. This is just mind blowing. Ever been prosecuted for tracking spam? Running a traceroute? Doing a zone transfer? Asking a public internet server for public information that it is configured to provide upon demand? No? Well, David Ritz has. And amazingly, he …

David Ritz lawsuit

It'd take too long to get into the whole story, so here's the short version: Anti-spam activist David Ritz is being sued by a guy named Jerry Reynolds , apparently for, uh, performing DNS and WHOIS lookups. You know, asking public servers for public information that t…