Books and authors wanted: AoiR Toronto 2003
Dear AoiR-ites: The book publishing room promises to be very strong at this year's conference. Please help support our conference (and your publishers) by responding to the note below. Francophone authors are especially encouraged to reply, and with help from working/steering committee member Eric George (U of Ottawa) we will translate this note soon. It would be very helpful if you could also directly request that your publishers support our conference with a donation. Be sure to inform us if you are doing this, and contact aoir@ecommons.net for details. We are looking for sponsors for the Welcome reception, coffee breaks and much more. We also plan to call for book launches to coincide with the conference, and web sites or projects. Let us know if we can showcase your research work, and let us see how this might help the conference. Cheers, Liss Jeffrey, PhD Conference chair. Dear Colleague, This year's International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, coming up October 16-19, 2003 in Toronto, will include a book exhibit specially organized by the LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. The book exhibit will bring together recent and significant titles from the major publishers providing a picture of the "state of the art" in the field. It will contribute substantially to the intellectual value and excitement of our conference. If you are an author, this is an excellent venue to promote your ideas and writings to leaders in the field. Library of Social Science and the Association of Internet Researchers seek your input to assist in developing a comprehensive collection of titles encompassing the full range of topics on the current status and future of the Internet, and on the implications of online information and communication systems on science, business, law, medicine, politics, education and interpersonal relations. If you are an AUTHOR and wish to have your book included in the display, or if you wish to recommend titles for inclusion in the exhibit, please respond by e-mail to MeiHaChan@cs.com or fax to 413-832-8145 providing the following information: (1) The title(s) of the book(s) and date(s) of publication. (2) The name(s) of the publisher(s). (3) (If you are an author): The name, telephone number and e-mail address of your contact at each publishing company. Please be sure to include your own name, telephone number and e-mail address with the information that you send to us. Please respond to this e-mail or fax now so that we can begin work to assure that the book(s) you have authored or suggested are included in the display. Thank you very much. With regards, Mei Ha Chan Associate Director, Library of Social Science P. S. To obtain additional information on the book exhibit, authors or publishers may call me at 718-393-1075
Today on the trusty yahoo.com news, i read an article that referred to the new wave of identity spamming as "phishing", defined by this journalist as "The e- mail is an example of "phishing" -- the use of spam, or unwanted junk e-mail, to lure computer users to Web sites that look like those of reputable companies, and to deceive them into divulging personal financial data" and a CNN.com journalist last month defined people who Phish as Phishers: "Phishers first steal a company's identity and then use it to victimize consumers by stealing their credit identities" Does any one know how this word got synonymous with online scam/spammers? Who coined this term? And, bear with me, as i revert back to my days on the american highways following a certain band that shares the same name, is there any connection to the hippie band, Phish? That I doubt, but still curious to why these spammers have this new name...i feel like there are some cultural connotations somewhere... in the dark, -mike -- Mike Ayers Department of Sociology Miguel Hall Manhattan College Riverdale, New York 10471 michael.ayers@manhattan.edu O:(718) 862-7406 F:(718)862-8044 ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through Manhattan College Webmail: http://www.manhattan.edu/
Mike, Not sure exactly the sources or timing of the term, but people have been "phishing" on AOL for at least 6 years. AOLers were considered easy prey for social engineering, and circa 1997 was a period in which script kiddies were first coming into their own. Even those who could not write scripts could phone up users, saying they were from AOL, and have the user read their password over the telephone. They sometimes also asked the user for their credit card, a practice called, oddly enough, "carding." (Why not "karding"? Who knows.) Incidentally, parting people from their passwords hasn't gotten much harder, apparently. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30324.html I strongly suspect that "phishing" is simply "fishing" with the fone phreaks' "ph" to indicate that it was an illicit computing activity, rather than anything illicit having to do with Phish. Might also been that it was first practiced via phone, before the current email/trojan horse approach was taken up. Alex =============================================== | Alexander Campbell Halavais | | alex.halavais.net | | Assistant Professor, School of Informatics | | State University of New York at Buffalo | ===============================================
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