Every old business model fights to save itself, and accuses the new business model of some nefarious intent.
Sears->Walmart
Taxis->Uber/Lyft
Barnes&Noble->Amazon
Yahoo->Google
Newspapers->Slashdot/Reddit/Blogs
etc. etc.
Business is best when new, healthy models overtake old, unhealthy businesses. It is called "creative destruction" and it has been going on for a long, long time.
I agree that this is good that the MIT student announced his findings and acted responsibly by not publishing his findings.
But, I am not sure this is covered by the first amendment, although I like that amendment a lot.
For example, what about credit card information?
Let us assume that someone hacked into Visa's system because it was hackable. Is that free speech if someone posts private credit card information to the internet?
I agree that civil penalties would be better. Spamming is illegal money making. Follow the money and retrive the ill-gotten gains. Use this spammer as an informant to find the chain of spammers, and freeze their bank accounts. The FBI and related agencies have the clout. They had an opportunity to not only stop this guy but lots of others. Follow the money.
http://blog.maysoft.org/
Most of the users are SMBs, between 50 and 500 users. The subscription does most of the work, and the users have self-service to the quarantine, which takes the load off of the administrators. Any product that you pick should really only require 15 minutes or so each day to check that it is running, and have a self-service component, otherwise you will spend all day managing spam.
http://maysoft.com/
I don't know why they send spam either. But, as a joke, I wrote "Sympathy for the Spammer" as a spoof of Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones song). Some people thought I really had sympathy. Just the opposite, as I believe the Rolling Stones intended, too:
Here are a few lines (remember, it was inteded to be funny):
Sympathy for the Spammer
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's identity by theft
And I was around when William Gates
Said he'd stop all spam by o-six
Made damn sure that SPF
Would not be open so not so great
(refrain)
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I rode to the bank
On my ill got gains
Selling mortgages
porn, watches and drugs
I shouted out,
Who killed Sender IP?
When after all
It was you and me
(and our bot nets)
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Every old business model fights to save itself, and accuses the new business model of some nefarious intent. Sears->Walmart Taxis->Uber/Lyft Barnes&Noble->Amazon Yahoo->Google Newspapers->Slashdot/Reddit/Blogs etc. etc. Business is best when new, healthy models overtake old, unhealthy businesses. It is called "creative destruction" and it has been going on for a long, long time.
I agree that this is good that the MIT student announced his findings and acted responsibly by not publishing his findings. But, I am not sure this is covered by the first amendment, although I like that amendment a lot. For example, what about credit card information? Let us assume that someone hacked into Visa's system because it was hackable. Is that free speech if someone posts private credit card information to the internet?
I agree that civil penalties would be better. Spamming is illegal money making. Follow the money and retrive the ill-gotten gains. Use this spammer as an informant to find the chain of spammers, and freeze their bank accounts. The FBI and related agencies have the clout. They had an opportunity to not only stop this guy but lots of others. Follow the money. http://blog.maysoft.org/
Most of the users are SMBs, between 50 and 500 users. The subscription does most of the work, and the users have self-service to the quarantine, which takes the load off of the administrators. Any product that you pick should really only require 15 minutes or so each day to check that it is running, and have a self-service component, otherwise you will spend all day managing spam. http://maysoft.com/
I don't know why they send spam either. But, as a joke, I wrote "Sympathy for the Spammer" as a spoof of Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones song). Some people thought I really had sympathy. Just the opposite, as I believe the Rolling Stones intended, too: Here are a few lines (remember, it was inteded to be funny):
Sympathy for the Spammer
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's identity by theft
And I was around when William Gates
Said he'd stop all spam by o-six
Made damn sure that SPF
Would not be open so not so great
(refrain)
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I rode to the bank
On my ill got gains
Selling mortgages
porn, watches and drugs
I shouted out,
Who killed Sender IP?
When after all
It was you and me
(and our bot nets)
http://blog.maysoft.org/blog.nsf/d6plinks/FPAO-7CNUH9/
I agree that this is a great way to stop spam. We do that in the SpamSentinel filter for Lotus Notes and Domino. There is a blog about it here: http://blog.maysoft.org/blog.nsf/d6plinks/NMCN-7DKNQ7/