[69321] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spam with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Mon Apr 5 22:54:36 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:51:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0404051912490.18512-100000@twomix.devolution.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Scott Call wrote:
: Kinda of makes you wonder if AP and the like could go after spammers
: habeaus style on copyright infringement. Since the spam is a source of
: revenue, it could be construed as criminal copyright infringement as well
: as civil....
AP will face the same problem as Habeas: tracing the spam backwards through
the open proxies and China hosting to get information about the real source.
RFG ran a honeypot open proxy network that collected information about
allegedly "real" proxy-rape spam sources, but he was DDoS'd to death by such
people, and then gave up on the effort [publicly? who knows?].
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
