Back in the days, in the Amiga BBS (Bulletin Board System, [modem connected] multi user chat and files sharing system) scene viruses was an everyday thing. I must have been infected with some 50 different breeds though the years. There where floppy boot block- and executable file-viruses. Just as irritating as spam.
However, a rumour said a group of Swedish BBS sceners who had gotten to know the identity of a virus programmer (some of them liked to brag) payed him a visit. With baseball bats.
This could perhaps be adopted as a method to fight spammers.
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Yeah! True hackers live at IRC and still haven't figured out what protocol IRL implements.
Idea: Have a local proxy insert an HTTP header line with a random value to make your payloads differ from other customers'.
>if i wanted something like XP or Aqua i would have bought either of those.
Me, on the other hand, would download a theme to get the looks rather than to by Windows or a mac.
To increase your security, instead of using your significant other's name, use your significant others' name. Get more {girl, boy}friends.
However, a rumour said a group of Swedish BBS sceners who had gotten to know the identity of a virus programmer (some of them liked to brag) payed him a visit. With baseball bats.
This could perhaps be adopted as a method to fight spammers.