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8 ways to fight spam filter frustration

2008-08-07 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472b5c in Network World on Security
 
Spam. It fills our in-boxes, wastes our time and spreads malware -- and it's only getting worse. According to Ferris Research, which studies messaging and content control, 40 trillion spam messages are expected to be sent in 2008, costing businesses more than $140 billion worldwide -- a significant increase from the 18 trillion spam messages...
 
Tags: spam, trillion spam messages, trillion, content control, ferris research, significant increase, billion worldwide, spreads malware, in-boxes
 
 
 
 
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When Markets Collide

2008-11-08 11:29:59 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...trillion. That means that China has a better balance sheet than the US, plus 1.6 trillion beats minus 12 trillion if you are scoring at home Given that the Chinese stock market is down 70% in the last year, its an interesting time to look at Chinese stocks. A few weeks back Mohamed El-Erian made the bull case for buying the MCSI Emerging...
 
Tags: markets, china, china reportedly, markets collide, mainland china, markets index, business book, trillion beats minus, trillion
 
 
 
 
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Quantum Computing: Hype vs. Reality

2008-03-23 06:29:26 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...trillion. Five trillion is a big number. We're only now getting to the point that we can put about that many normal bits on a disk drive. The first thing this tells me is that we aren't going to wake up one day and find out that someone's put that many q-gates on something you can buy from Fry's from a white-box Taiwanese special
 
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If a tree falls in someone else's silo...

2008-09-08 12:29:57 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...trillion.... or is it $ 5.4 ?), we see the same pattern. The bankers believed in their product. The originators believed in their origination, the securitizers believed in their free market and accurate price, and the holders believed in the assets. The CDO, the subprime, the other 100 special names, each was a contract. Each was clear in and...
 
Tags: silo, design, design systems, systems, brittle claims, claims, computer systems, legacy silo, banks
 
 
 
 
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DNA Matching and the Birthday Paradox

2008-09-11 06:21:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...trillion. If you choose exactly 9 loci for 2 random people, the chance that they will match all 9 is 1 in 13 billion. Those are the sorts of numbers the F.B.I. tosses around, I think So under these same assumptions, how many pairs would we expect to find matching on at least 9 of 13 loci in the Arizona database? Remarkably, about 100. If you...
 
Tags: match, match varies, positive match, specific loci, pairwise match, percent chance, chance, loci, people
 
 
 
 
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White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail

2008-06-26 12:54:58 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...trillion in economic benefits over the next 32 years. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter Both documents, as prepared by the E.P.A., showed that the Clean Air Act can work for certain sectors of the economy, to reduce greenhouse gases, one of the senior E.P.A. officials said....
 
Tags: white house, clean air act, reduce greenhouse gases, greenhouse gases, regulation, officials, motor vehicle emissions, business critical function, tough regulation
 
 
 
 
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ET and IT

2008-09-05 11:34:12 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...trillion industry. So Friedman is right that ET is going to be bigger than IT on the top line, now profit margins may be a different story
 
Tags: energy, renewable energy technologies, energy stances, friedman, tom friedman, kleiner perkins set, top line, strategic advantage, economic power
 
 
 
 
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Google Moves to 3rd Party Processing - The eCrime equivalent

2008-09-24 00:00:00 by Uri Rivner in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...trillion URLs, the Internet search giant reported in January that it processes 20 Petabytes of data per day Turns out a Petabyte is 1000 Terbytes. So Google processes over 20,000 Terabytes of data per day. Supporting all of this impossibly massive data crunching is a huge network of proprietary servers and custom made storage. It's the...
 
Tags: google, grid, proprietary grid, storage grid, storage, processes, google processes, mythical google grid, mythical
 
 
 
 
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One Spam to rule them all!

2008-10-11 23:37:02 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...Trillion Spam E-mails This Year ComputerWorld did a nice story called Spam Filters: Making Them Work relying on the Ferris numbers. However, the lesson we should learn is buried deeper in the details: spam is no longer a nuisance that clogs inboxes, its a security issue. The majority of spam messages now try to breach security on the...
 
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