That kinda assumes that spammers are paying for their own hosting.
There are two ways of doing it:
1. Use a compromised host to serve the spam target pages 2. Rip off credit cards to buy hosts to serve the spam target pages
Given the lifespan of URLs in spam (which need to constantly change to dodge the blacklists) then either method would mean 100% profits for the spammer without having to change their existing methods - they don't spend *anything* on hosting.
This is just another money grab from legitimate users - I don't think it's (financially) worth me renewing any of my.com/.net domains any more...way to piss on your own chips, guys...
(Option 2 does have the 'plus' side that the idiots who are actually buying from spam links get their credit cards ripped to the max - hopefully they'll learn not to buy stuff from fscking spam!)
Blaming the tech is a cop-out - firewalls and encryption mean nothing if these people are entering their details into any website that asks for it. Paper/card shredders are cheap now (even/especially for the home) and people have been told for years not to click on links in unsolicited emails, *especially* if they're from a bank/ebay/PayPal.
Instead of spending more on (company-side) tech there should be more spent on user-side education. Only those who've been a victim of identity theft and the paranoid (waves!) tend to realise exactly how much value there is in our personal information.
I quite regularly enter junk into websites that I feel ask for too much information - no, you don't need my full address and telephone number before I download that article. If there is a legitimate reason why they do need my information (delivery/billing) and the site looks okay then that's fine, but too many websites and for too much information before they'll let you do anything.
Why bother DDOS them? Just/. them - same effect, and your hands are clean.
Bonus points if the/. post is about some shady business practice - the 'tin foil hat brigade' will roundly denounce them, while you can do AC posts saying '{insert your company name here} are much nicer - go look!' and grab as much bounce-back popularity as possible.
(damn...should have patented that idea before posting...)
(Presuming that wasn't a troll)
That's a horrible, horrible solution. Viruses fake sender addresses, which means the faked address gets *loads* of these 'Please confirm' emails, clogging up another innocent mail server.
Get it wrong, and you'll have two servers sending 'Please confirm' messages to each other until one screws up into a little ball and dies.
I'm all for the War Against Spam, but this isn't the way - it just doubles the amount of emails.
I wonder if they're going to licences the games to run on standard installations? Not free or open source (they've got to make money somehow!) but pre-packaged binaries for the most popular distros. They could also get more revenue by creating 'authentic' arcade gamepads for standard PCs.
Imagine being able to (legally) play your favourite arcade games at home!
19 ``(b) As used in this section, the term `enabling soft- 20 ware' means software that, when installed on the user's 21 computer, enables 3rd parties to store data on that com- 22 puter, or use that computer to search other computers' 23 contents over the Internet.''.
Does that mean that Windows would then become illegal? You can store information on a remote computer (File and Print Sharing) and use that computer to search the Internet (Internet Connection Sharing).
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That kinda assumes that spammers are paying for their own hosting.
.com/.net domains any more...way to piss on your own chips, guys...
There are two ways of doing it:
1. Use a compromised host to serve the spam target pages
2. Rip off credit cards to buy hosts to serve the spam target pages
Given the lifespan of URLs in spam (which need to constantly change to dodge the blacklists) then either method would mean 100% profits for the spammer without having to change their existing methods - they don't spend *anything* on hosting.
This is just another money grab from legitimate users - I don't think it's (financially) worth me renewing any of my
(Option 2 does have the 'plus' side that the idiots who are actually buying from spam links get their credit cards ripped to the max - hopefully they'll learn not to buy stuff from fscking spam!)
Blaming the tech is a cop-out - firewalls and encryption mean nothing if these people are entering their details into any website that asks for it. Paper/card shredders are cheap now (even/especially for the home) and people have been told for years not to click on links in unsolicited emails, *especially* if they're from a bank/ebay/PayPal.
Instead of spending more on (company-side) tech there should be more spent on user-side education. Only those who've been a victim of identity theft and the paranoid (waves!) tend to realise exactly how much value there is in our personal information.
I quite regularly enter junk into websites that I feel ask for too much information - no, you don't need my full address and telephone number before I download that article. If there is a legitimate reason why they do need my information (delivery/billing) and the site looks okay then that's fine, but too many websites and for too much information before they'll let you do anything.
(it's anti-Microsoft, dammit, feed me karma!
Why bother DDOS them? Just /. them - same effect, and your hands are clean.
/. post is about some shady business practice - the 'tin foil hat brigade' will roundly denounce them, while you can do AC posts saying '{insert your company name here} are much nicer - go look!' and grab as much bounce-back popularity as possible.
Bonus points if the
(damn...should have patented that idea before posting...)
(Presuming that wasn't a troll) That's a horrible, horrible solution. Viruses fake sender addresses, which means the faked address gets *loads* of these 'Please confirm' emails, clogging up another innocent mail server. Get it wrong, and you'll have two servers sending 'Please confirm' messages to each other until one screws up into a little ball and dies. I'm all for the War Against Spam, but this isn't the way - it just doubles the amount of emails.
I wonder if they're going to licences the games to run on standard installations? Not free or open source (they've got to make money somehow!) but pre-packaged binaries for the most popular distros. They could also get more revenue by creating 'authentic' arcade gamepads for standard PCs. Imagine being able to (legally) play your favourite arcade games at home!
19 ``(b) As used in this section, the term `enabling soft-
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20 ware' means software that, when installed on the user's
21 computer, enables 3rd parties to store data on that com-
22 puter, or use that computer to search other computers'
23 contents over the Internet.''.
Does that mean that Windows would then become illegal? You can store information on a remote computer (File and Print Sharing) and use that computer to search the Internet (Internet Connection Sharing).
Just a thought.