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Spam Flood Unabated After Bust
AcidAUS writes "Last week's bust of the largest spam operation in the world has had no measurable impact on global spam volumes. The spam gang, known by authorities and security experts as HerbalKing, was responsible for one-third of all spam, the non-profit antispam research group Spamhaus said." The article speculates that the operators of HerbalKing simply passed on to associates the keys to the automated, 35,000-strong botnet, and the spam flow didn't miss a beat.
That Spamhaus doesn't know what they are talking about with the numbers they spewed.
Just goes to show, you can pull numbers out of your ass, and it all depends on who WANTS to believe them.
Spamhaus, MPAA, RIAA, et al, they all incredibly inflate numbers to their own benefit.
Guess the Spam Kings wheren't as big as they where reported, huh?
Would be nice to see something legally happen to them, as well. Seriously, if one pulls a number out of their ass, no matter what side of the fence they are on, they should be held accountable for lying at the least (publicly shunned on their "stats" in the future), libel, to out and out fraud.
This is the kind of things that pisses me off. Statistics are supposed to be credible, not a number you pull out of our ass to make your side look better.
--Toll_Free
Someone should buy penis enlargement pills via their spam and give them to the large, hairy inmates who will soon be sodomizing them.