I smell smoke!!!!! oh it's you Duncan!
I smell smoke!!!!! oh it's you Duncan!
Banks' communications with their ATM's etc is encrypted - interference by spammers to their communications would shut them down, so locking out spammers can be done? Maybe something could be introduced with Internet II? Lovely thought. It's war as you say, and this could be a way to nuke the spammers!
I thought spam had dropped off quite nicely. Seems though it was just for the festive season. Spam is pouring in with a vengeance at the moment - particularly the "pump and dump" variety.
Looks like the spamsters had only taken a holiday!!
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Cut off the money and you cut off the motivation. The only problem now is that this becomes a way to suspend perfectly innocent companies - a form of attack.United States stock market regulators suspended trade in 35 small companies on Thursday due to a fraudulent campaign of spam, that hyped the firms' shares to investors, officials said.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said it had acted, issuing its highest number of suspensions ever related to mass emailing known as spamming, to protect unsuspecting investors from likely fraud.
"This morning the Securities and Exchange Commission struck a blow for investors and for every American with a computer against one of the worst menaces of the information age," SEC chairperson Christopher Cox told reporters at a news conference at the regulator's headquarters.
The suspensions under "Operation Spamalot" are part of an increased bid by the SEC, America's top market regulator, to aggressively tackle spam email campaigns that tout a company's stock by falsely claiming a major new oil discovery or a new product launch.
Officials said that even SEC staffers had received the widely distributed emails, despite spam-blocking software programs, which they said had netted perpetrations millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
full story from Business Report here
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Hi
Interesting quote from Wikipedia about the origins of SPAM.
When I was in I.T. we understood it to mean: "Self Promoting Advertising Material".
This was the common understanding before Wiki got all clever and technical.
I'm guessing it's a more modern interpretation which sounds much more impressive.
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