Nanodot appears to be back on the air again. Our outage was an aftereffect of the hack attack we had a few weeks ago. This, and the other lingering effect (de-listing of the main site from Google) are both not actual results of the hacking (which put code in that popped up ad windows) but of reactions to it — in the case of nanodot, too much security prevented us from logging in to post!
The lessons for future technology, one hopes, are clear…
One current posting that caught my eye more than usual is How to Forecast Malicious Internet Attacks on the arXiv blog. Spam wars have long been thought of as one place that AI might evolve as a result of competition…
