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Re: Spam King arrested
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 22:50:18 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
It's all well-and-good, as much of the mainstream media has, to herald
this arrest, and it's understandable that those NOT well-versed in the workings of modern spam and other Email-based shenanigans might further herald such an arrest as "likely to result in a reduction in spam", as most of the mainstream media has, but folk like ferg know all too well that simply taking out one of those big operators will have pretty much exactly no effect on the problem, as the slime "advertising" through spam will simply move to other spammers, and the spammers (or at least, their botherders) may engage in a turf war trying to wrest control of the eliminated operator's botnets.
Actually, yes -- that's exactly it. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.1 (Build 1012) wj8DBQFGYKKmq1pz9mNUZTMRAqMPAKDWgIEbyNJuTNne8Q0uJ7z4GYIfoQCg3H4d JByHgWHJjXF/tkEGKO7qDSQ= =hBOA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- RE: Spam King arrested, (continued)
- RE: Spam King arrested Steve Manzuik (Jun 01)
- Re: Spam King arrested Åke Nordin (Jun 01)
- Re: Spam King arrested Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 01)
- Re: Spam King arrested Åke Nordin (Jun 01)
- Re: Spam King arrested Nick FitzGerald (Jun 01)
- Re: Spam King arrested Blue Boar (Jun 01)
- Re: Spam King arrested Dude VanWinkle (Jun 02)