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Interview with a Spampire

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ethically-challenged dept.

Bunch2 writes "In this article at OReillynet, a 'hacker' explains why he put his superior coding skills to use by writing a spam mailer called Fahrenheit. (Hint: $$$) Turns out his little creation is also being used by criminals to 'phish' bank account information from gullible folks. The article shows how talented but morally challenged techies are becoming stooges of 'spammers, con artists, and other criminals.'"

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  1. Re:Remember by fdiskne1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The tool is legal, its what you do with it that counts. Exactly the same as P2P.

    Not quite. I believe the CAN-SPAM law specifies that hijacking other's computers in order to send spam is illegal. That's what his program was meant to do. This means the program was illegal to begin with.

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