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One Man's Fight Against Forum Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the heroes-and-villians dept.

JWSmythe writes "Free Internet Press has an interview with 'Random Digilante,' an anonymous hacker who has been taking over forum spammers' email accounts, and notifying forum operators to delete those accounts. It looks like his reasoning is sound, and his methods are safe, where he won't hurt any real users."

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  1. Re:So silly.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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  2. Re:Illegal by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    What this guys is doing is indeed illegal, but not immoral; when our government is unwilling or unable to enforce or prosecute laws it becomes incumbent upon non-sanctioned individuals to protect society by doing so.

    Bruce, we've been over the five stages of grief a million times: I keep telling you, you're stuck at Anger and you need to move on.

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    You can't take the sky from me...