Rob Martinson is the owner of Mailwiper - software which claims to get rid of spam in your email box. He advertises it by sending spam. He also owns Spywiper, which is more the subject of this article. I'm surprised that he isn't mentioned in it. He had a lawyer send me, my webhost, and his upstream a "Cease and Desist" letter because I put up a web page when he refused to stop spamming me. The page is still up - I won't meakly comply with scum who don't want the truth told.
Also not mentioned in the article is that another well known spammer, Walt "Picklejar" Rines, is also involved.
My page is at http://www.whitis.com/mailwiper.htm.
To the people who believe Spamford when he says "I didn't break the law, I'm just doing something that you want to make a law against" I'd point out several things. First, all spammers claim to be innocent. Rule #1, spammer lie.
Fraud has been illegal for a long time. Businesses can be sued for damages caused by negligence, even if they *aren't* trying to cause harm - and Spywiper appears to be designed to cause harm. This isn't Spamfords first time to find something that he claims isn't illegal and get in trouble for it - he was part of the reason for junk fax laws. He's also lost several lawsuits over spam. I believe that some of them left penalties to be assessed later if he is caught spamming customers of the companies that won those suits. I suspect that if they were to check, they would find Mailwiper spam that puts him deeply in debt.
The "honest citizen" that you are defending isn't honest. He's just a con man. Always has been, always will be.
An exploit like this is likely to lead to some killer spam.
Apparently some anti-virus programs catch it, but we all know that not everyone running a windows system keeps up to date spam filters. And *many* of the email programs for windows will render images, even in a preview pane. This is a huge, huge problem.
My point is, don't bank on a politician to be the source of change for the better. You can do more yourself, in a single day, to positively affect your own life and those around you than either Bush or Kerry can in 4 (or 8!) years.
Quite likely true. However, the enormous amount of harm they can do is just mind boggling....
They always will be, because religions people will always believe in one or more supernatural beings. They will belive in life after death, and they will believe that God is Watching Over Them.
And they will do this with no evidence to support them, and despite any evidence that shows they are wrong. Shoot, many of them don't believe that Dinosours existed, and have gone to great lengths to come up with weird theories about how God created bones, skeletons, footprints, etc, so that man would eventually find them.
Science and religion will always be at odds. Religion wants you to take things on faith - just like tarot-card-readers, palm readers, and other astrologists do.
Religion is the ultimate con. It's big business, and it allows them to make tons of money, avoid paying taxes, ignore the law, and tell people what they have to do.
Maybe so, but I'm not bitching at someone for catching a thief, and you are. You're probably worried that you'll be the next stupid thief to get busted.
And when you do get caught, I'll consider it a reason for rejoicing and dancing with glee. Scumbags like you suck, and the world would be better off if you were all shot.
One thing I rarely see mentioned is that spam is mostly micrososft's fault.
One thing that is often mentioned is that anonymous cowards like you give no legitimate information, and are just trolling. Tell your lies elsewhere - most people here are smart enough to know that spam would exist with or without MS.
At which point it may be wise to at least consider including spam as a marketing resource alongside more conventional services.
Fuck off and die, spammer. If it were up to lowlifes like you, every person on the planet would receive a million emails about crap they don't want every day, and you'll just continue to push your costs on to other people, and forge my domain in your "From" fields. So take your "Spam is just legitimate marketing" crap and shove it.
If it were not for him, the criminal would still be unknown, breaking into other peoples homes. You should be thanking him, instead of bitching because a burgler got caught.
Maybe. Maybe he did. After all, he's breaking into a house, and he's carrying a gun, so maybe he intended to use that gun. You think it's wrong for the homeowner to use a gun to defend himself, but you seem to have no problem with the a-hole that carried a gun while committing other crimes.
And maybe the guy that broke in planned to rape someone.
There is no way to know. But there *is* a way to make sure that you aren't simply at his mercy. You, of course, believe that the innocent homeowner should be at the criminals mercy.
Also, don't have it too sensitive, if the neighbors know your alarm will go off in a mild wind they won't do anything when it happens.
I thought all of your advice was good. The part I quoted reminded me of a time when I lived on the 2nd story of an apartment complex. Parking was just below the "sidewalk" past my door, and my downstairs neighboor had a pickup with a very sensitive alarm. It went off fairly often, and he would just ignore it, knowing that it was probably a false alarm and it would shut up in a couple of minutes. But it was very annoying to me. (Especially when it would wake me up.)
I went to a tennis club and bought a bunch of dead (not much bounce left) tennis balls for hardly anything. Then for a week or two, I'd walk out, throw a tennis ball on his hood, and go back in. 10 minutes later, I'd do it again.
Eventually, he must have either removed/disabled the alarm, or had the sensitivity adjusted, because the balls quit setting it off. After that, it never bothered me again.
SPEWS and others provide a list that is used by a great majority of ISPS etc. to BLOCK emails.
SPEWS and others are providing the data for who to block.
That would be free speech. Consumer Reports will tell you "We think these guys have a good product" and "We think this product is no good" and similar. The BBB will tell you "Business in good standing, no complaints" or "They have a list of complaints as long as your arm".
Neither decide who you do business with - they just tell you what to expect, and let you decide. Just like SPEWS does.
Why not turn spammers information over to the Florida AG office. They're itching to try out our new spam law
Yeah, that's why there are no spammers in Boca Raton, and no con-men in Ft Lauderdale - it's because the Florida AG cracks down so hard on that kind of scum...
10 days gives them time to switch to a new network, with no downtime.
It's probably 5-7 days for Savvis to find someone who will purchase all the spammers as a joint deal, so Savvis can make some more money off of them, and 3-5 days for the spammers to switch without downtime.
None of this happened without Savvis knowing. They bought C&W, which was *nothing* but a spamhouse, and surely they knew the reputation. This is all business for them. They don't give a shit about anyone else.
1st Paragraph, 2nd sentence: "Their blocklist includes entire states...". Gosh man, please tell me honestly, did you even read beyond the title?
Yes. Did you read the rest of the article? Can you actually believe that the crap there is true?
It's obviously a bunch of crap.
Here's another of the "facts" that are backing up your story.
FACT NUMBER SEVEN: Proponents of SPEWS to a man worship dark powers and perform occult rituals in the privacy of the basement apartments they are renting from their parents. SPEWS supporters have also participated in no less than 800 leprechaun abductions over the past decade and it is suspected that they can astral project.
Yes, I'm convinced, this is serious, in depth journalism.
If you have any more requests, please make sure to accompany them with baseless and trollish accusations. I will be more than happy to reply to you.
So far, you haven't backed your claim the first time.
You found five web pages with complaints about spews. They've added thousands of IP's to their list, at one point or another, due to the spam. They've added others because the people that own the netblocks won't deal with the problem, so they escalate. (Just as they say they will.)
They have never blocked entire countries as you claim.
You did add a link to "SPEWS will block entire countries". That link, on Something Awful, never gives any evidence of that. And lets take a look at how honest they are. From that page:
FACT NUMBER FOUR: Network admins who use the SPEWS.ORG blocklist are thirty eight times more likely to attempt to hot glue a realistic latex vagina to a skateboard and call it by their mother's first name while having intercourse with it than those who either use no blocklist or one of many less draconian SPEWS alternatives.
In the meantime, you continue to claim that SPEWS blocks this and that and the other, while ignoring the fact that SPEWS blocks nothing. The only ones that block anything are the admins running the system that does the blocking. If they choose to use SPEWS, they do it knowing how SPEWS works. They aren't forced into it. SPEWS doesn't make them.
I don't use SPEWS to block, filter, or guess about spam. I don't use them at all. But unlike you, I am not opposed to free speech. You don't want SPEWS to have the right to say "We think you should consider not accepting traffic from these IP's." I think SPEWS has every right to say that.
SPEWS has a long list of complainers who've been fucked over by them, because SPEWS generally doesn't give a shit as to who they're blacklisting.
That's exactly right. If you are coming from IP range of a know spam supporter, then it doesn't matter who you are, you get blocked. And the good guys go elsewhere, and the bad guys go to the sites that SPEWS adds to their list, and we are all better off for it.
You can live in a good neighborhood, or a bad one. Your choice. SPEWS just makes it clear which group you are in.
Similarly, what is unacceptable for a mom and pop garage shop ISP is perfectly acceptable for a Tier 1 or a larger Tier 2 ISP.
That is *exactly* what Agis thought, when they decided to host Spamford and every other spammer they could find. Didn't do them much good, either, because when your tech's quit working for you, and everyone else starts to blacklist your IP's, you find that the legitimate business you lose will more than make up for the spammers cash you took. Short term, maybe it works - long term, you end up dead, because no computers outside of your own system are willing to talk to you or carry your traffic.
You're like this too... you do something for someone in return for $$$. This is just supply/demand at work.
There is a demand for people who are willing to kill other people, for dishonest politicians, for businessmen who will make investors money even if they screw the rest of the world, and for people who will supply IP addresses and bandwidth to spammers.
The is a major difference between honest people, and people that can be bought because morals and ethics mean nothing to them.
You believe that everyone is like you. I know that you are wrong, because I'm not like you. I hope (despite the evidence) that there are more of the honest people than the "I can make a buck at it so screw everyone else" people.
Just ask the Dixie Chicks. They were smacked down so hard I'm sure other artists were discouraged from pulling a similar stunt.
I, on the other hand, went and bought one of their albums, which I wouldn't have done if there hadn't been a big stink about them saying what I already thought.
And I'm mostly-republican (don't like either party, really) and from Texas.
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Also not mentioned in the article is that another well known spammer, Walt "Picklejar" Rines, is also involved.
My page is at http://www.whitis.com/mailwiper.htm. To the people who believe Spamford when he says "I didn't break the law, I'm just doing something that you want to make a law against" I'd point out several things. First, all spammers claim to be innocent. Rule #1, spammer lie.
Fraud has been illegal for a long time. Businesses can be sued for damages caused by negligence, even if they *aren't* trying to cause harm - and Spywiper appears to be designed to cause harm. This isn't Spamfords first time to find something that he claims isn't illegal and get in trouble for it - he was part of the reason for junk fax laws. He's also lost several lawsuits over spam. I believe that some of them left penalties to be assessed later if he is caught spamming customers of the companies that won those suits. I suspect that if they were to check, they would find Mailwiper spam that puts him deeply in debt.
The "honest citizen" that you are defending isn't honest. He's just a con man. Always has been, always will be.
Apparently some anti-virus programs catch it, but we all know that not everyone running a windows system keeps up to date spam filters. And *many* of the email programs for windows will render images, even in a preview pane. This is a huge, huge problem.
Compared to the damage and trouble he caused, I don't think he's been punished at all.
Quite likely true. However, the enormous amount of harm they can do is just mind boggling....
It means that they consider some hypothetical, supernatural being more important than evidence.
They always will be, because religions people will always believe in one or more supernatural beings. They will belive in life after death, and they will believe that God is Watching Over Them.
And they will do this with no evidence to support them, and despite any evidence that shows they are wrong. Shoot, many of them don't believe that Dinosours existed, and have gone to great lengths to come up with weird theories about how God created bones, skeletons, footprints, etc, so that man would eventually find them.
Science and religion will always be at odds. Religion wants you to take things on faith - just like tarot-card-readers, palm readers, and other astrologists do.
Religion is the ultimate con. It's big business, and it allows them to make tons of money, avoid paying taxes, ignore the law, and tell people what they have to do.
And when you do get caught, I'll consider it a reason for rejoicing and dancing with glee. Scumbags like you suck, and the world would be better off if you were all shot.
One thing that is often mentioned is that anonymous cowards like you give no legitimate information, and are just trolling. Tell your lies elsewhere - most people here are smart enough to know that spam would exist with or without MS.
Fuck off and die, spammer. If it were up to lowlifes like you, every person on the planet would receive a million emails about crap they don't want every day, and you'll just continue to push your costs on to other people, and forge my domain in your "From" fields. So take your "Spam is just legitimate marketing" crap and shove it.
Thieves suck, and deserve to be punished.
Maybe. Maybe he did. After all, he's breaking into a house, and he's carrying a gun, so maybe he intended to use that gun. You think it's wrong for the homeowner to use a gun to defend himself, but you seem to have no problem with the a-hole that carried a gun while committing other crimes.
And maybe the guy that broke in planned to rape someone.
There is no way to know. But there *is* a way to make sure that you aren't simply at his mercy. You, of course, believe that the innocent homeowner should be at the criminals mercy.
I thought all of your advice was good. The part I quoted reminded me of a time when I lived on the 2nd story of an apartment complex. Parking was just below the "sidewalk" past my door, and my downstairs neighboor had a pickup with a very sensitive alarm. It went off fairly often, and he would just ignore it, knowing that it was probably a false alarm and it would shut up in a couple of minutes. But it was very annoying to me. (Especially when it would wake me up.)
I went to a tennis club and bought a bunch of dead (not much bounce left) tennis balls for hardly anything. Then for a week or two, I'd walk out, throw a tennis ball on his hood, and go back in. 10 minutes later, I'd do it again.
Eventually, he must have either removed/disabled the alarm, or had the sensitivity adjusted, because the balls quit setting it off. After that, it never bothered me again.
SPEWS and others are providing the data for who to block.
That would be free speech. Consumer Reports will tell you "We think these guys have a good product" and "We think this product is no good" and similar. The BBB will tell you "Business in good standing, no complaints" or "They have a list of complaints as long as your arm".
Neither decide who you do business with - they just tell you what to expect, and let you decide. Just like SPEWS does.
Yeah, that's why there are no spammers in Boca Raton, and no con-men in Ft Lauderdale - it's because the Florida AG cracks down so hard on that kind of scum...
It's probably 5-7 days for Savvis to find someone who will purchase all the spammers as a joint deal, so Savvis can make some more money off of them, and 3-5 days for the spammers to switch without downtime.
None of this happened without Savvis knowing. They bought C&W, which was *nothing* but a spamhouse, and surely they knew the reputation. This is all business for them. They don't give a shit about anyone else.
I'd be willing to bet that many AGIS IP addresses are still in blocklists today...
You obviously don't understand the problem.
It's obviously a bunch of crap.
Here's another of the "facts" that are backing up your story.
Yes, I'm convinced, this is serious, in depth journalism.
You found five web pages with complaints about spews. They've added thousands of IP's to their list, at one point or another, due to the spam. They've added others because the people that own the netblocks won't deal with the problem, so they escalate. (Just as they say they will.)
They have never blocked entire countries as you claim.
You did add a link to "SPEWS will block entire countries". That link, on Something Awful, never gives any evidence of that. And lets take a look at how honest they are. From that page:
In the meantime, you continue to claim that SPEWS blocks this and that and the other, while ignoring the fact that SPEWS blocks nothing. The only ones that block anything are the admins running the system that does the blocking. If they choose to use SPEWS, they do it knowing how SPEWS works. They aren't forced into it. SPEWS doesn't make them.
I don't use SPEWS to block, filter, or guess about spam. I don't use them at all. But unlike you, I am not opposed to free speech. You don't want SPEWS to have the right to say "We think you should consider not accepting traffic from these IP's." I think SPEWS has every right to say that.
You can live in a good neighborhood, or a bad one. Your choice. SPEWS just makes it clear which group you are in.
That is *exactly* what Agis thought, when they decided to host Spamford and every other spammer they could find. Didn't do them much good, either, because when your tech's quit working for you, and everyone else starts to blacklist your IP's, you find that the legitimate business you lose will more than make up for the spammers cash you took. Short term, maybe it works - long term, you end up dead, because no computers outside of your own system are willing to talk to you or carry your traffic.
There is a demand for people who are willing to kill other people, for dishonest politicians, for businessmen who will make investors money even if they screw the rest of the world, and for people who will supply IP addresses and bandwidth to spammers.
The is a major difference between honest people, and people that can be bought because morals and ethics mean nothing to them.
You believe that everyone is like you. I know that you are wrong, because I'm not like you. I hope (despite the evidence) that there are more of the honest people than the "I can make a buck at it so screw everyone else" people.
I'd do the same thing if I was running their company. Thus proving that you are a slimeball.
Just ask the Dixie Chicks. They were smacked down so hard I'm sure other artists were discouraged from pulling a similar stunt. I, on the other hand, went and bought one of their albums, which I wouldn't have done if there hadn't been a big stink about them saying what I already thought. And I'm mostly-republican (don't like either party, really) and from Texas.