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Tech Reporter Pursues Spammer
girish writes "Technology reporter extrordinaire, Mike Wendland, is at it again tracking down spammers. Wendland conducted the infamous interview with Alan Ralsky, the alleged mega-spammer, a few years ago. That article spawned a lively discussion on Slashdot and eventually resulted in hundreds of pieces of junk postal mail flooding Ralsky's million-dollar home. Now Wendland is using a new tool from a service called Project Honey Pot to track email address harvesters. He posted on his technology blog this morning about catching a company that is holding itself out as a legitimate bulk mailer, but appears in fact to be sending to harvested addresses and conducting on the side some other seemingly seedy businesses. Interesting stuff."
I knew if I had the physical addresses of these spammers, my friends and I would gladly take a road trip and hunt down these spammers. We would break into their homes/offices, and destroy any equiptment that they own, and be sure they aren't able to start back up. Lawsuits aren't going to work, and have proven worthless. There is only one real way to stop such an issue, and that is by physically destroying these peoples property that they earned by exploiting society. I would slash their tires, break their windows, and give the owner of the corparation an old-fashioned ass kicking. I don't see anything unethical about it, I just see the law as the main problem.
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Way to post stuff that's been posted to one of the linked articles you karma whore
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