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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."
From the article cited in the summary:
The botnet sends out millions of spam messages ...
You're a few orders of magnitude off there. Try tens of billions ...
My work here is dung.
The FBI believes that one third of the world's spam messages are being generated by one 23-year-old Russian man
Congratulations to Oleg Nikolaenko for achieving so much at such a young age!
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I looked at this summary over my first sip of coffee and read "A Third of World's Sperm From One Russian Man," and nearly spit it onto my macbook.
Titles like this should wait until after 10:00 am Eastern/7:00 am Pacific.
I can see the fnords!
Somewhere in Moscow, a geek named Oleg Nikolaenko is hunched over a pile of computers in a dank and dark basement.
Suddenly, a knock on the door!
Cautiously, Oleg watches through the door peephole at a tall, muscular stranger, with shades on, dressed all in black leather, except for a "Google" patch on the left side of his jacket.
The stranger (with a strong Austrian accent): "Oleg Nikolaenko?"
Several days later, at a Google HQ conference in Mountain View:
- "Yes, our motto is, and still remains: 'Do not be Evil'... We made an exception this one time, but the project nicknamed 'Extreme Prejudice (beta)' has been officially disbanded and the blueprints destroyed. The persons responsible for the projects have been sacked. Any questions?"
- "Yes, Mr Brin, what is the *other* project Google wanted to discuss?"
- "Well, we are pleased to announce that the new Google Map now incorporates 'Satellite Friend Tracking' to know -- in real time -- where all your friends are, anywhere in the world!"
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
> 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.
> I don't understand why people hate Email Ads so much.
They constitute more than 99% of email traffic.
> All you have to do is filter them out.
It is impossible to reliably filter them all without losing real mail.
> It's not worth killing someone.
Correct.
> Now the head of the RIAA or MPAA - that's a different story.
No it isn't.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
One of the lesser-known sections of the code of Hammurabi reads "If a man shall falsely promise p3n1s 3xt3nsion and thereby cause public nuisance and distress, his own penis shall be stretched by one digit for each such false promise. If he spreads his false promises by means of another man's messenger, he shall be flogged."
They often skip this one in elementary history lessons on the matter; but it is arguably quite salient in today's interconnected world...
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.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
Nope, it's not. Find someone who would rather be raped to deleting 500,000 messages from their inbox.
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