NY Times On Spam Zombies

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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Attention all c00l haxxors out there

[davidwr]

Get your own machines and challenge your friends to break in and hope they reciprocate.

For a summer's worth of lawnmowing money, you should be able to buy a decent system, load it up with virtual machines courtesy of the latest Linux kernel, and "let the games begin."

Mess with my box and if I'm feeling generous you'll just have the FBI breathing down your neck for computer trespass. If I'm not in a good mood, well, let's just say my lawyers have advised me not to make threats in a public forum.