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WLANs As Spam Conduit

Posted by chrisd on from the spammers-are-still-evil dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "According to this article, a honeypot was recently set up on two wireless LANs. 25% of the connections observed were deliberate, and 71% of those were to send spam. Even more reason to take care of your ether." These statistics should be taken with a salt lick...

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  1. Re:How about... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Execution must be reserved for serious crimes. Web clients that "support" XML but don't check if it is well formed, would be one such example. I believe a UN task force, including military airpower should be used to deliver a world free from "Our users prefer it if we let them forget to close some elements".

    Also creating upside down and inside out file formats such as BMP and PCX, +/- 32768.0 float WAV files and so on should be a death sentence, but commuted to life if you agree to tour schools telling kids why "it happened to be easier in my test app" is no excuse.