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Spammers Using Hacked Machines as Decoys
avi33 writes "This Wired story shows a disturbing alliance between hackers [sic] and spammers. Interestingly, they blame part of the alliance on market forces, leading some skilled engineers to the dark side for profit's sake. A Polish firm claims to have control of 450,000 Trojaned systems that it uses to mask the IP addresses of its hosted sites. In other words, you could host your Viagra-peddling site with a company that has a stringent no-spam policy, but a DNS lookup will point to a home user's compromised machine. Not quite bulletproof, but certainly ups the ante in the spam war."
Huzzah!
If we broke more thumbs and kneecaps
Nuke Florida from orbit would eliminate half of the spammer population... Of course, this would eliminate large chunk of AARP members, but that's a price I am willing to pay, gladly (thankfully I am neither that age nor living anywhere near Florida :-)
Right here
Or ISPs could just ban Windows machines from their network, which would have the same effect without inconveniencing people with real computers.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
More like, Crashdot...
See, Linux sux0rz too. Winblows sucks, Mac sucks, Linux sucks, Unix sucks, BeOS sucks, they all suck. Just in different ways.
Your favorite OS sucks.
Hacked machine uses spammer as decoy.
Why is a polish firm releasing studies about the internet? I'm not likely to believe anything that Kiwi says about the internet.
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I heard some sad news on the radio, Valve Developer Gabe Newell has committed suicide. The cause is most likely the HL2 source code being stolen. More details at 11.