It seems that fraud using email is legal because the email system is far more invisible than post mail, but fraud should be fraud shouldn't it?
If the law can't realize that fraud is just as important with email addresses as it is with legal tender, then there's never any hope for a decent spam bill, because it only goes to show they don't understand the technology or its importance enough.
And that's not even mentioning the social security numbers...
Dear Cretin,
Firstly, it's plainly obvious that you posted this only so that you could get all excited and pleasure yourself alone in front of your PC at all the outraged comments you expected. Get a new hobby.
Secondly, alough you're wrong about it being a first amendment thing (as it's commercial, theft of service etc.), I couldn't give a damn anyway. Not everyone lives in the USA Moron. As a UK citizen, I can only agree with the first ammendment point if every spammer takes steps to ensure that no email on their bloated lists leaves America. When you've made a list that contains millions of email addresses scoured without biased with web-crawlers and such, this becomes an impossible task of course, as you probably well know.
Seriously, it's a fair point, why isn't one of the options "Never trust content from...". I don't wish my next comment to cause a geek attack about getting off IE, but where are all the amatuer IE plugins to add stuff like this? And to add the pop-up slaying abilities of Mozilla?
Hacker plug-ins were all the rage when I were a young lad, where've they all gone?
No way I mean to take the offensive, I don't mean this as it probably sounds, but here are my thoughts...
If your software was bundled at some point, then it SNUCK IN to PC's without the owner of that PC's consent. Something a rep. company would never do, if I haven't asked for it then it's because I don't want it.
Software that purposely does not announce itself is something only spyware or adware does, otherwise when would the user ever run it? Why would software not need the user to now it's on their system? The only answer is because it slaps a registry entry in and runs itself. Legitimate software?
Anti-Spyware software has done alot of good work for the average user who doesn't know what's happening on their system, and for the rest of us, we have to learn what not to download because not everyone who writes software is honest about its installation.
I think we're both clearly biased to different sides of the argument here, but calling anti-spyware companies "over-zealous" and saying that they are "attacking" software I think is a bit strong. Reminds me of Spammers who say that people like Spamhaus are "attacking" their business.
And as for the "tricks" you could use that would not only stop spyware from removing but also teach virus hackers to code better?!, I really don't think there's anything I can't disable with file and registry editing.
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If the law can't realize that fraud is just as important with email addresses as it is with legal tender, then there's never any hope for a decent spam bill, because it only goes to show they don't understand the technology or its importance enough.
And that's not even mentioning the social security numbers...
Dear Cretin, Firstly, it's plainly obvious that you posted this only so that you could get all excited and pleasure yourself alone in front of your PC at all the outraged comments you expected. Get a new hobby. Secondly, alough you're wrong about it being a first amendment thing (as it's commercial, theft of service etc.), I couldn't give a damn anyway. Not everyone lives in the USA Moron. As a UK citizen, I can only agree with the first ammendment point if every spammer takes steps to ensure that no email on their bloated lists leaves America. When you've made a list that contains millions of email addresses scoured without biased with web-crawlers and such, this becomes an impossible task of course, as you probably well know.
I don't wish my next comment to cause a geek attack about getting off IE, but where are all the amatuer IE plugins to add stuff like this? And to add the pop-up slaying abilities of Mozilla?
Hacker plug-ins were all the rage when I were a young lad, where've they all gone?
No way I mean to take the offensive, I don't mean this as it probably sounds, but here are my thoughts... If your software was bundled at some point, then it SNUCK IN to PC's without the owner of that PC's consent. Something a rep. company would never do, if I haven't asked for it then it's because I don't want it. Software that purposely does not announce itself is something only spyware or adware does, otherwise when would the user ever run it? Why would software not need the user to now it's on their system? The only answer is because it slaps a registry entry in and runs itself. Legitimate software? Anti-Spyware software has done alot of good work for the average user who doesn't know what's happening on their system, and for the rest of us, we have to learn what not to download because not everyone who writes software is honest about its installation. I think we're both clearly biased to different sides of the argument here, but calling anti-spyware companies "over-zealous" and saying that they are "attacking" software I think is a bit strong. Reminds me of Spammers who say that people like Spamhaus are "attacking" their business. And as for the "tricks" you could use that would not only stop spyware from removing but also teach virus hackers to code better?!, I really don't think there's anything I can't disable with file and registry editing.
Enlarge my penis 2 metres high? I'd have balance problems.