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A page explaining the significance of the Federal Trade Commission. The different branches of this federation and the activities the FTC is involved in.

An overview of TTS (transport layer security) and it has changed from the orginal one, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). TLS is the standard track protocol, that was based on the earlier SSL specifications developed by Netscape corporation

E-mail spam, also known as junk e-mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail.

Botnet is a jargon term for a collection fo software robots, or bots, that run autonomously and automatically.

This is a very short article, talking about weather or not spam has decreased as a result of the takedown of the HerbalKing group.

This article gives a little background information of spam in 2006, and 2008. It talks about the costs, ussage and cases. Spam acounts for nearly 200 billion messages each day, which translates to about 90% of email worldwide. The U.S. is the biggest source at 17.2%.

This article describes the "spam" as a problem. Talks about issues created by spam, such as unwanted email, critical email messages missed, billions of dollars lost world wide, etc. Also talks about tracking down spam users.