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Child Porn Accusation As Online Extortion Tactic

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-an-fbi-method dept.

Glenn writes "There's a story on silicon.com about a new twist in the tactics used by online extortionists trying to blackmail ecommerce sites with denial of service attacks. Yesterday one blackmailer threatened to send out child pornography emails in UK gambling site Blue Square's name if it didn't pay up 7000 Euros." This sounds even worse than simple DoS threats.

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  1. Re:It's all SMTP's fault! by Zangief · · Score: 4, Funny


    Phase 1: Retire SMTP
    Phase 2: Panic
    Phase 3: Develop, implement and distribute new e-mail sending system (maybe profit)

    Personally, I fear Phase 2!

    But...your fear is developing according to your plan...so it is good, isn't it?

  2. Re:heh by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 4, Funny

    really? wow. I didn't even write a single line of code!

    I'm going to have to use slashdot as a programming interface more often.

  3. I swear... by indros13 · · Score: 3, Funny
    that sort of thing ain't my bag, baby.

    --
    Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.