Archive for August, 2009



Towards virtuous spamming?

Today’s papers report a new method being trialed from the US to get news into countries with heavily censored Internet access such as China and Iran. (see: http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/01/using-email-tricks-to-get-news-into-countries-that-censor-it/) The method is called FOE (Feed Over Email) and is essentially a method for sending encrypted email as an RSS feed to any email address that requests [...]