I apologize in advance to our international readers if this post is not of international interest, however it may well be as the leaders of the US seem to have a little bit of global impact :)   For the background of this post, please see the following articles/blogs: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/bogus-robocall.html http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/colorado-judge.html And, very Importantly: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Vote_(Even_If_They_Say_You_Can’t)

In “Viruses Revealed”, Robert Slade and I said that “”In many ways, the Internet Worm is the story of data security in miniature.”

I just came got back from Oxford (that’s the one in the UK, by the way), where the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization held its latest two-day meeting.