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NY Times On Spam Zombies

Posted by Zonk on from the creddiiiiit-caaaaaardssss dept.

A discreetly valorous slashdotter writes "The NY Times is featuring a story about the growing armies of spam zombies. It focuses on New Jersey teen spammer Jasmine Singh. Choice quote: 'Hacking in its purest form is not about compensation or about wrecking a Web site. Hacking in its pure form is to show what you can do.'"

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  1. Is it something against indians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Is it me or something ? Slashdot is featuring more and more stories against/about indians. First the credit card fraud, ibm transfers job overseas, and now this.

    May be we should call this section It is what Indian Technology is.

  2. Its purest form? by bmomjian · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hacking in its purest form is showing how you can go to jail. :-)

  3. So he/she treats crackery like it were a sport. by CyricZ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Okay, so this teen treats crackery like it was a sport. To show his or her proverbial "balls", as it were. This would be a prefect opportunity for some older, social-concious geeks to get together and set up a crackery league for these youth. Let them perform their crackery against each other. Each youth could set up a system, and then they would go head-to-head to crack the other youth's system. Indeed, it would be an intellectual junior soccer- or baseball-style league.

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    Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
  4. Re:Holding systems hostage... by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >Where would they send the money?

    A Western Union office in Belarus, in one recent case. Once Western Union hands over the cash the transaction is irreversible and the victim's only recourse is local law enforcement. Extortionists can pick whatever country has the most cheaply bribable cops. And sometimes cops will ignore foreigners for free.