February 6, 2005

A list of 240,000 names of Polish secret agents, informers, secret service employees, and victims of persecution was leaked on the internet in the last days and became an instant hit. The search for "lista Wildsteina" (Wildstein's list) sky-rocketed to 300,000 per day in the second most popular search engine in Poland (onet.pl) outperforming "sex" (former top query) by more than 30 times. The list appeared on many web sites, p2p networks, and was made into a searchable database. There are worries the list might contain names of active security agents, still working abroad. Google news has more coverage." [Slashdot] 10:18:50 PM

Canadian delegation returning to U.S. to lobby for open border to cattle CBC - A Canadian delegation is heading back to Washington on Monday, to keep the pressure on the U.S. with the border about to re-open to Canadian cattle. [CBC | Canadian News] 8:08:49 PM

Spammers have adapted and spam is going to get worse UberGizmo - In the next few months, E-mail spam is going to get a lot worse, that least, that's the prediction of The SpamHaus project, a global anti-spam group that point the finger to a new spamming technique that consist of sending spam via the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) directly, instead of using individual machines. 1:05:32 PM