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P2P Spam?
Sgt York writes "In a NYT article (republished in the Houston Chronicle, no subscription required) experts at CERT, F-secure, Trusecure, and the Hall of Justice (see article) think that SoBig.F is a spam scheme in the making. They say that SoBig.F is the 6th variant in an ongoing experiment with the possible goal of setting up a distributed spam network, to be rented out to the highest bidder. If that is their goal, they are well on their way. Another disturbing note in the article is that "In the case of four of the six programs, a new version was launched immediately after the self-timed expiration date of the preceding one". SoBig.F expires in two weeks. "
"Now, liken me to Sinestro and you're the Green Lantern..." *shiver*
"Understand you're having a little Jimmy Page trouble."
Back when I used ICQ, I used to like getting spammed:
HotSxzzGrl says: Can we talk?
Or something like that. It's been awhile. God I miss her, though.
My sig sucks.
...don't go outside without your tin-foil hat!
*sigh*
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: SMTP is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered SMTP community when recently IDC confirmed that SMTP accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that SMTP has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SMTP is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] [amazingkreskin.com] to predict SMTP's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SMTP faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SMTP because SMTP is dying. Things are looking very bad for SMTP. As many of us are already aware, SMTP continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. SMTP is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SMTP developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SMTP is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SMTP leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of SMTP. How many users of SMTP are there? Let's see. The number of SMTP versus SMTP posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 SMTP users. SMTP/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of SMTP posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SMTP/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the SMTP market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SMTP users. This is consistent with the number of SMTP Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, SMTP went out of business and was taken over by SMTPI who sell another troubled OS. Now SMTPI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SMTP has steadily declined in market share. SMTP is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SMTP is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. SMTP continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SMTP is dead.
Fact: SMTP is dead
doesn't your neck hurt from all the tinfoil on top of your head?
"You can liken this guy to Lex Luthor and we're all supermen," said Russ Cooper
Actually I liken that guy to Rock Hudson and you're all the Christian Values Alliance.
Makes sense, you're a bunch of annoying wankers who take themselves way too seriously, and he's a pain in the ass.
Happy Troll Tuesday!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Spammers are making money hand over fist selling placebos, which means that there is an incredible amount of stupid people that currently populate the internet. If you really want to stop spam, kill the stupids.
You've just hit on the solution! All we have to do is convince the spammers to replace their sugar pill V1a6ara with a slightly more reactive compound. Something like this, perhaps?
Problem is, the spammers are probably stupid enough to try their own product. Darn it.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Don't touch the keyboard.
It's all fun and games until someone loses the key to the handcuffs.
It's SCO...
The virus will install their code on every machine that is infected. Then they will sue EVERYONE for infringement.
Stream : SoBIG.main : /. poll)
Revision : 6.0
Code to be released : Pending Approval
Target Release Date : Sept 9, 2003
Proposed fixes
1. Enhance subject line generator.
(Incorporate statistics from
2. Enhance performance.
3. Incorporate "increase penis length" email.
4. Fix critical product change requests
5. Add string confirming soBIG refers to
average penis size of development team.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
That could be a PAINFUL 10 years if they continue to sell their PENIS ENLARGEMENT PILLS while they're inside!
You are missing something:
The plan is:
1.Create Virus that spam
2.?
3.Profit!
"Failure is not an option, it come bundled with the software"
Tampering with real emails, inserting the spam message mixed with the real email.
It's sure gonna make we wonder why my grandma is trying to sell me penis enlargement pills!
This sounds like a win-win situation, better get started.
mats
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
Spoil my superfriends memories for ever and ever, you insensitive clod.
But nobody can cheapen what Wonder-woman and I had together... mmmmm... that golden lasso...
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
It's 2003...
SpamGrid
Intelligent Life on Earth
Think of all the things you could do with 1000s of slaves getting instructions from systems on the internet.
- DOS attacks on
.gov or .mil sites, as well as all the .coms.
- Blackmail or they get DOSed.
- Solve complex mathematical problems grid-like - maybe for cracking passwords or something.
Spam seems to be the mildest thing they can mention to the public - the possibilites for much worse things is there.(S+C) x (B+F)/T = V
Somehow, I seriously doubt blacklists would block every ISP, or even something approximating every ISP. They'd piss off too many of their users that way.
ROFL..
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