What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam

bednarz writes "For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark. The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment — which fittingly started on April Fool's Day — was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad they got. Mooney was game, especially since McAfee was giving a free PC to all participants. She told her story to Network World."

Comments

Re:Birds of a feather. Security Absurdity!

[dedazo]

they give the illusion that user actions make a difference.

The false conclusion we're supposed to draw from this is that user actions do not make a difference?

It doesn't matter how much you hate Microsoft twitter, the reality is that the vast majority of malware/trojan infections on Windows PCs are the result of user action, or the lack thereof. Why do you think UAC is so annoying in Vista? Because Microsoft developers had nothing better to do?

At some point the user has to be responsible for their actions, unless you don't want to let them do anything with their computers. The bad old days when Microsoft software put convenience over security are long gone, so you might want to find a different way to make your case against Windows. The "it's impossible to use securely" argument is getting really tiresome, especially coming from people like you.

Re:Birds of a feather. Security Absurdity!

[billcopc]

Do you go around replying to ALL of twitters posts ?

I dub thee: "Bizarro Twitter"
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