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RE: Spam with no purpose?
- From: Todd Vierling
- Date: Mon Apr 05 22:56:13 2004
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>
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