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Ira Rothken on Politech: We decided to add ICANN and the United States Department of Commerce to our Federal Case in Northern California (Syncalot v. Verisign) involving the legality of Verisign's SiteFinder service. We added the above additional parties in an effort to have a more complete record and a full and fair adjudication of the issues. We are seeking to enjoin the SiteFinder service and declare it illegal. Here is a link to the First Amended Complaint which alleges, amongst other things, that Verisign breached its agreements and violated the law when it attempted to use control of the domain name root server to "break the Internet" and monetize domain name properties it did not own.

Later: Bret Fausett has read the complaint and suggests that the lawyers in question haven't done their homework.

As a follow-up to Tuesday's notes on Novarg, some MRTG plots that illustrate what happened in my inbox this week. The blue curve is legitimate mail; green is spam (and other junk), or recognized virulent material.

First, spam (and other junk that's automatically recognized). Note the peak on Monday evening, when Novarg first appears, and also the substantially higher junk bandwidth ever since -- due to notifications about the worm:

Second, recognized viruses (getting really interesting later in the same night):

If you want to compare the effect to Sobig.F, here's a similar plot showing Sobig's last days.