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Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes

  • From: Dr. Jeffrey Race
  • Date: Thu Oct 09 16:15:27 2003 
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:55:36 -0400 (EDT), [email protected] wrote:

>Trouble is, how do you stop this? 

You use the same principles that are successfully applied every in society
(except the Internet) to prevent the negligent from injuring the public.

 <http://www.camblab.com/misc/univ_std.txt>

and (if you have a moment for some chuckles as well as some deep insights
into what ails our favorite organism)

 <http://www.camblab.com/nugget/spam_03.pdf>

(Brief extract: "One needs only to enforce existing contracts and management 
 charters (e.g. ICANN's) and to apply the basic principles of civilization 
 to the Internet.  No one would fly an airline run like today's Internet.
 Why should we tolerate such misoperation of an ever more critical resource 
 in modern life?  Spam is not inevitable.  It is the predictable consequence
 of  management decisions to use the Environmental Polluter business model 
 . . . .)

It's not a technical problem and there are NO technical solutions.  The
only one that works is what is used in every other type of human
activity.

Jeffrey Race