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Botnet Mafia in Online Turf War

Posted by samzenpus on from the make-them-an-offer-they-can't-refuse dept.

An anonymous reader writes " The kind of turf war seen in the real world by drug gangs is being replicated by the criminal gangs behind spamming botnets, and things are turning nasty."

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  1. aren't you special? by ClioCJS · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You come off as an asshole. Just letting you know.

    P.S. Some of us need personal email and have relied on it heavily for 15 years.

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  2. PGP is your friend by oliverthered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If people actually started using the tools that have been available for years and signed their emails it would be a lot easier to spot the ones sent out by spam bots.

    It's amazing how hard it is to get a company to send you a signed email to prove who they are and even harder to send an encrypted email containing personal information to them even though everyone knows how insecure email it.

    Lazy Government,
    Lazy Companies,
    Lazy Consumers.
    The tools are there for free and have been for years.

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    thank God the internet isn't a human right.
  3. Re:Trying to care by inviolet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As someone who doesn't have an email address anymore, I really don't care about spam in the slightest, or the battle they go over to spam people.

    You do realize that the costs of spam mitigation are all passed on to you, in the form of higher prices for gadgets, for professional and financial services, and eventually for everything else? Or do you not care about that either?

    By the way, now that we are out of the Grunge era, it is no longer automatically cool to not care about such things.

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