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New Attacks on Spam

Posted by michael on from the war-machine-springs-to-life-opens-up-one-eager-eye dept.

AttackOfTheDictionaries writes "Project Honey Pot started operating back in November. The Project provides its participants with a script that generates fake webpages with unique honeypot email addresses. The end result is that Project Honey Pot can connect email harvesters' IP addresses with the spam received by those honeypot email addresses. Which is pretty nifty, but left some people asking how that would help legal attacks on spam. Well, it seems that some lawyer over at SecurityFocus has an answer."

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  1. Follow the Money by Lemurmania · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I've never understood why more attention isn't paid to punishing the businesses who advertise via spam. However well the spammers hide their tracks, there's a real company somewhere that wants to exchange services for cash. Why not attack this at the root? Why not make it a fineable offense to advertise via spam? Or would it be all-too-easy for a company to claim it never asked for the spam to be sent in the first place?

    It just seems to me that if you punish the money, there would be little to no incentive to spam. Any IANALs (or IAALs) like to comment on why this would/wouldn't work?