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Spammer Sentencing Guidelines
actaeon169 writes "The Register is reporting that the Feds are seeking public comment on a proposal to amend the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to deal with those convicted of violating the law set forth in the CAN-SPAM act. Here is what the Feds have to say."
That's what civil court is for.
My Congressman says there is a 3 week delay before he sees snail mail while it is checked for anthrax. He has trouble with email due to the volume of Spam, and huge number of low cost of entry emails from places like vote.com. When you call on the telephone, the staff person ignores your brilliant explanations, and just writes down "for" or "against" some bill (and hopefully doesn't get it backwards). That leaves fax as the only political communication medium that still works.
1. "Computer Cracking" (i.e. evasion of security measures in order to gain unauthorized use of other people's computers).
1a. Creation or distribution of computer viruses designed to open a "back door" into infected computers so that they may be used to relay spam.
1b. Use of computers infected by spam viruses (see 1a above) as spam relays.
1c. Evasion of spam filters by disguising spam messages with forged headers, misleading subject lines, disguised keywords, etc.
2. Denial of Service ("DoS") Attacks (i.e. disabling other people's computers or network connections)
2a. Attacks on websites that maintain lists of known spammers.
2b. Forgery of mail headers to make some other person appear to be the spam sender in order to deflect complaints. The identity theft victim is often unable to receive legitimate e-mail once the complaints flood in, and may be disconnected by his Internet Service Provider until he can establish his innocence.
3. Fraud (i.e. misleading advertisements)
3a. Medical fraud (e.g. "penis enlargement")
3b. Financial fraud (e.g. stock-touting "newsletters")
3c. Unauthorized use of copyright/trademark (e.g. "herbal Viagra")
3. Other offenses
3a. Mailing of pornography without effective screening to prevent distribution to minors.
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.
I've been in prison, and no, it's not all supervised. While I didn't see of any problems with sexual violence, there was plenty of physical violence. There was plenty of time where rape would have been possible, including in the showers.
I suppose it's good in a way that the above statement isn't true. According to spamhaus, about 90% of all spam is due to just 200 operations. It wouldn't take too many prison cells to hold all of them.
Personally, I feel giving the spammers a year in jail and giving their cell mate a steady supply of v1agra would be a fitting punishment.