Tag archive 'Communication'

Spammers passing as M2 users

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-07-27

I have noticed that I have been getting very much more spam than usual the last few weeks. Someone is apparently wanting a new bot-net very much. Anyhow, I have also noticed that much spam is sent with the following footer:

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Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Anyone using Opera M2 will recognise this default footer. Studying these emails' headers revels that the User-Agent: [is indeed] Opera Mail/9.50. The address formatting is, however, revealing that the messages are probably not sent using Opera.

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Best description for aMSN package

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-07-01

Why is not this the description for the aMSN client package we see in all package managers!? It is the best I have seen yet.

aMSN lets Linux users communicate with associates on Microsoft instant messaging networks. In this article, we’ll show you how to Reach out to your friends in the empire.

From WINDOW TALK by Mirko Albrecht for Linux Magazine.

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Privacy awareness in Opera

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-06-29

A web-connected user-agent (a web browser) sends much information, that if you live in Sweden, now will be freely available to the military. Using content and transfer encryption has never been so important before.

This is a tip that will let you turn on a feature of Opera—the web browser—that will warn you every time you send data from a web form unencrypted. It will help rise awareness of just how much data you make available every day.

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Opera mini using ¼ of Norway’s bandwidth

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-05-07

I want to highlight something from a Click program on BBC a few months back:

Even though Opera currently accounts for just a few percent of the mobile browser market its servers deal with about a quarter of all of Norway's data traffic.

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