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中图分类法:
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TP393.098 版次： |
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著者:
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Brunton, Finn, |
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题名:
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Spam : [ a shadow history of the Internet /] / , |
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其它题名:
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Shadow history of the Internet. |
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出版发行:
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出版地： Cambridge, MA : 出版社： The MIT Press, 出版日期： c2013. |
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载体形态:
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xxiii, 270 pages ; 23 cm. |
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内容提要:
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The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam, it is produced and shaped by many different populations around the world: programmers, con artists, bots and their botmasters, pharmaceutical merchants, marketers, identity thieves, crooked bankers and their victims, cops, lawyers, network security professionals, vigilantes, and hackers. Every time we go online, we participate in the system of spam, with choices, refusals, and purchases the consequences of which we may not understand. This is a book about what spam is, how it works, and what it means. Brunton provides a cultural history that stretches from pranks on early computer networks to the construction of a global criminal infrastructure. |
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主题词:
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Spam (Electronic mail) History. |
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Electronic mail messages History. |
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主题词:
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Internet History. |
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索书号:
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1 |