[71840] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Unplugging spamming PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Linneweh)
Thu Jun 24 10:57:55 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:54:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <OF84C007C5.8985A85D-ON80256EBD.0035EB1D-80256EBD.00367203@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
That sentence is A joke 15000 subscribers affected
Court Convicts Obscene Text Messager
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IPQ4NZVA4P24ACRBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&storyID=5504916
--- Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
>
> > And again, much of this comes down to enforcement.
> When was the last
> > time you heard of a spammer's domain being pulled?
> How about the last
> > time you saw a spammer be even remotely bothered
> by having their
> > domain pulled? Do you think they'll really care
> less about losing a
> > mail server when they've got another dozen lined
> up ready and waiting?
>
> Well, just a couple of days ago I read about a
> Russian court in
> Chelyabinsk that sentenced a spammer to two years in
> prison. It's
> the first conviction under a Russian law that
> forbids the use
> of malicious software and the court felt that the
> spamming scripts
> used by this guy were malicious software.
>
> What he did was to send text messages to mobile
> phone
> subscribers of a single company by means of a web
> gateway.
> I think the main reason he was put on trial was
> because the
> mobile operator whose customers were getting the
> spam and
> whose gateway was being misused, went to the police
> and
> complained. How many ISPs in the USA go to the
> police and
> register official complaints about spammers? We have
> lots
> of smart people who can track down and identify
> spammers
> but it does no good unless the companies who suffer
> damage
> register an official police complaint.
>
> --Michael Dillon
>
