Link roundup for 9/7/07

F-Secure : News from the Lab - September of 2007 3d Spam: F-Secure discusses a new variant of image spam that has a 3D-like appearance. (Via The Register.)

San Jose Mercury News - Germany defends plan to use spyware in terror investigations: the German government is defending a proposal to be allowed to use trojan horse applications to investigate suspects. (Via Slashdot.)

Quechup is rotten: don’t accept invites - Boing Boing: Once again another social network service makes a disastrous mistake of inviting all the members in a users online address book without their explicit knowledge and consent. As with many services that have made this mistake in the past, it immediate generates an immense amount of resentment, both on the part of the sender as well as the recipients.