Re: [ATM] [Re: This list and spam.

[Alexis Cousein <al@sgi.com>]

Kevin MIchael Zabbo wrote:
> I dunno how much a terabyte costs, but hackers create
> viruses, worms, and trojans all for nothing.  A
> white-hat hacker could write one that targets spammers
> and leaves everyone else alone, but I'm not that elite
> a hacker, though my hat is white.
> 
> Kevin
> --- Bob May <bobmay@nethere.com> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe we need a program to harvest the spammer's web
>> addresses
>> fromm the emails

You're assuming they have an identity. They don't - spam is
sent through machines taken over maliciously. The original
machines controlling the bots are often in countries where
enforcement of rules is lax, and you'll have a hard time
convincing the entire world of machines capable of turning
into bots to stop listening to entire countries.

Besides, the machines that have become spambots (scattered
all over the world, and having dynamical addresses shared by
computers that are bona fide) are bots because the users aren't
being careful, so putting the onus upon them to do something
even smarter than avoiding infection isn't going to work.


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Alexis Cousein                                  al@sgi.com
Senior Systems Engineer/Solutions Architect     SGI/Silicon Graphics
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