Our Last Best Chance To Defeat Spammers, Scammers, And Hackers

Danny Goodman, Author, Half Moon Bay

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

The problems associated with unwanted email, computer viruses, and outright cyberattacks are having a substantial negative impact on productivity and personal privacy.The viability of electronic email as a reliable and desirable medium is at risk. In this talk, the author of the book "Spam Wars" will explain what is right and wrong withcurrent legal and technological approaches to the problems, and then demonstrate how frustratingly close we are to ridding the Internet of those who take unfair advantage ofeveryday email users.