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A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man
DaveNJ1987 writes "The FBI believes that one third of the world's spam messages are being generated by one 23-year-old Russian man. Oleg Nikolaenko of Moscow is being blamed for operating the Mega D botnet that sent spam emails from over 500,000 infected computers."
> Apologies for stereotyping...
Apology not accepted.
> ...but you must be American...
Like the Canadian advisor to the PM who recently called for the murder of Julian Assange? Or the British police who attack Brazilian tourists in the subway and shoot them in the head?
> Civilized countries arrest someone, then try him.
And, not coincidentally, he has been arrested in the USA and will be tried.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
Email, on the server-side, is an io-bound process. That is, disk usage is a concern every bit as much as memory and bandwidth. I've seen spam kick loads on servers that would be running ~2-5 up to around a 15. Dropping the spammer in the firewall brought the load down almost immediately. I then had to remove all the mail they were pushing to us from the queue so I could force-deliver the legitimate mail, as the queue had become severely backed up, and mails that should have gone through right away had been backed up for several hours. The server had been in critical for CPU for several hours in nagios before I came in and fixed it because the people on the previous shift hadn't thought to check the mail queue, despite the fact the mail queue was also in critical on that server.
Spam is a plague like no other. It's a vector for phishing and infection and causes verifiable harm in and of itself.
So what are we waiting for? Someone shoot him.
Oh, I forgot. We live in an age where the general public is not something that anyone stands up for anymore. Our politicians are all bought, we ourselves are too lazy and scared, and most of what we have in NGOs has become a political quagmire of commercialized selling of "feel good".
Sending the same amount of traffic to an individual company would result in charges for a DOS attack, no questions asked. But no, as long as you have enough victims and only minor damage to each, nobody really cares very much.
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Nope, it's not. Find someone who would rather be raped to deleting 500,000 messages from their inbox.
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