Re: LinkedIn Customer Says Company Lied About Data Security

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 04:40:40AM -0400, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
> Spamming requires a certain, almost sociopaths sense of entitlement to
> continue doing. 

You have hit the nail precisely on the head.  I've been studying spammers
for a very, very long time, and I'm firmly convinced that spammers ARE
sociopaths.  (I'm talking about "career spammers", not the people who
do it once out of ignorance or stupidity, not the people who get their
mail systems/accounts hijacked, etc.)  There's a reason why there are
no ex-spammers: they don't stop because they can't stop, nor do they
even want to.  They might shift modalities (e.g., Spamford bounced
between email spam, fax spam, spyware, and other scams) or locations
or methods or anything/everything else...but they never stop.

---rsk
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