> "Scott Williams , Area4" wrote: >> >> If you see two spammers hang hopefully a 100 will stop or atleast move >> off shore. > > I was just thinking, I know spam is a big problem, and all that, but > reading the article, I don't know. I hate to sound schizophrenic, but I > mean, surely these guys are not "hardened criminals". They're trying to > make a buck in a time when it's increasingly difficult to do so. And, > again, sure, they're killing other people's computer resources in the > process, and all that -- but think about it: these computers they're > killing are open to the public. it's not like they broke into an info > systems department and sledge hammered the place.
Umm, So what about the estimated *100,000* or more computers on the internet belonging to unwitting private individuals that have been purposly infected with spam relaying and proxying software via email worms and other backdoor approaches, that are now hijacked by spammers ? Remember Sobig.f ? That was a dropper for software purposely written by spamers to hijack peoples computers to allow them to send spam through them without getting caught. In most places I know deliberately breaking into computer systems and using them for your own nefarious means without the knowledge of the owner of the system is a crime, and spammers are doing this *constantly* and *blatently*. There was even an article about it recently on the online press somewhere where they were bragging about it. It's estimated that nearly half of all spam is now being relayed through hijacked computers, and many of these same computers are also being used to proxy requests to the spammers websites to try and hide the servers which host the links in the spam. This is simply outright criminal activity and must be stopped, so I say throw as many as they can catch and prove guilty in jail... It's just like any other lucrative illegal activity - if the perpetrators feel safe that they can continue to do it without consequences they will. If there is a strong risk of being caught and hauled off to jail, many others will think twice. I think that day is not far away now... Regards, Simon ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
