On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:09 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Richard Hector writes: > > My understanding is that most spam comes from compromised home > > machines these days - so the person getting disrupted is some poor > > sucker whose machine is compromised, not the actual offender. > > The machine is compromised because the sucker failed to secure it. > While the botnet operator is the actual criminal the owner of the > compromised machine is still negligent.
Through ignorance, in most cases, I suspect. I doubt most of them are aware of the consequences. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
