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Although spam filtering and blocking is helpful for the end user, it doesn’t stop the production of spam. KnujOn strikes spam at the source.
Unsolicited electronic material is more than just an annoyance. In 2004, Ferris Research Inc. estimated that spam costs US organizations more than US$ 10 billion dollars per year in manpower, software expenses, and lost productivity. In addition, affected systems can suffer from a distributed loss of bandwidth and occasional server failures, not to mention the risk of virus infection and the dangers of phishing expeditions.
Why don't they use all this "awesome" power to search out the source of the botnets, which are sending a huge majority of the spam, or why don't they find the people behind all the illegal pharmacy web sites?
As stated in this article, SPAM costs the world a huge amount of money and lost productivity. Is there too much money to be made by the "anti-virus" and "security" software industry? Have they lobbied the politicians to hold back on the pursuit of these criminals? It doesn't make any sense, otherwise, why the police agencies aren't using more effort to catch the spam crooks.
Imagine an Internet without any spam! Wouldn't that be nice?
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Federal Law Enforcement should be using their powers to stop SPAM
Monsoon New Zealand Aug 10, 2009 12:06am GMT
The Federal Government is analyzing everything flowing in and out of the country on the Internet in the name of hunting for terrorists. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2...dyn/A3409-2003Jan30?language=printer , http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/...on-all-att-whistleblower-mark-klein/ .Why don't they use all this "awesome" power to search out the source of the botnets, which are sending a huge majority of the spam, or why don't they find the people behind all the illegal pharmacy web sites?
As stated in this article, SPAM costs the world a huge amount of money and lost productivity. Is there too much money to be made by the "anti-virus" and "security" software industry? Have they lobbied the politicians to hold back on the pursuit of these criminals? It doesn't make any sense, otherwise, why the police agencies aren't using more effort to catch the spam crooks.
Imagine an Internet without any spam! Wouldn't that be nice?
Cheers!
Monsoon