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Mapping the Spam
demaria writes "The folks at cluelessmailers.org have made a map of spam. It shows the relationships among spammers and other entities (legitimate or not), including organizations that track spam, advertises with, shares addresses, emails through, and all sorts of other data. I can't imagine how hard it was to put this together, it looks like a giant circuit design layout, but shows just how big and interwoven the spam problem is."
The only problem with this is that it lets the spammers know how much they need to change their MO to slide under the radar. I did get a warm feeling from seeing all of it though.
"You are going to let them in here? They're gonna see everything! Waaaeeeh, they're gonna see the big board!"
The country of spam is surrounded by the "White Gelatin Coast", it is divided into various sovereign mystery meat nations. How this country was formed is unknown and best left a mystery.
I got this sick feeling of joy, and the hairs on the back of my stood up... Maps to the companies which send out spam?
I'm driving to each and every one of em, and hurling bricks through their windows...
errr wait...
dmarien
. I wonder if we can use this map to somehow take out spam.
Sorry dude, but nuking spammers doesn't work.
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
you have the map,
weve located the enemy,
now take them out!
do it for the good of the net, and may the Force be with you.
I want 2D games back.
Not only is it huge. Not only is it /.ed. But, it also made X11 run my CPU utilization up to a steady 97%.
Simple version:
Greedy Idiots --> Internet --> You
spam maps
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
The map is incomplete - I don't see Bernard Shifman on there anywhere
I forwarded it to all my coworkers, plus a few people that I don't know, but I have their email address. ;)
Turned out to look like 2 pieces of white bread with Miracle Whip spread on them, along with 2 pink colored, slightly rectangular shapes about 1cm think...unfortunately there is no screenshot or url to link to because the mapping was consumed shortly after constructed.
--Huck
"Just Smile and Nod." --Huck
"I can't imagine how hard it was to put this together, it looks like a giant circuit design layout, but shows just how big and interwoven the spam problem is."
Truly spoken by someone who has never seen a sexchart.
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Done and Done.
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WIth a big enough research grant, I might be able to uncover more details.
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Did anyone see Kevin Bacon's name on that map? I bet you could draw a link through association to him. Once that is done the map will be complete. Then we will know that Kevin controls that too.
The wages of sin are unreported and back taxes are hell to pay.
.. that 'maps' is 'spam' backwards?
Most e-mail clients allow you to view IP addresses, hostnames, etc. to find out where the message actually originated. Give the spam itself a good, thorough reading. Then look up any domains on WHOIS, document and research any phone numbers or snail-mail addresses, etc. Basically, figure out how to get in touch with someone.
And then call your cousin in the mafia. The spam will stop real quick.
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There are many people in this country who, through no fault of their own, are sane.
The map show that the solution is obvious: Kill 'em all and let John Postel sort 'em out.
Heh, I love stuff like this. Someone needs to start a collection... Heisenberg proved you can't know anything, Einstein proved that everything is relative, Godel proved you can't prove or disprove blah blah blah. Just keep twisting and perverting it all until it gets unrecognizable. And just when it becomes so utterly meaningless -- it is then a perfect tool for any argument, a perpetual motion machine made out of spinning coffins.
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I don't know about your, but most of my spam comes from the following places:
Family
Friends
Pets
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
You think that is bad. I just "Trolled" myself according to a moderator on the parent post.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.