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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?
On Thu 02 Dec 2004 (16:14 -0500), Steven Champeon wrote: > > > All I was pointing out was that, surprise, surprise, there already are. > So why anyone thinks Lycos' botnet being hacked is /any different/ from > /the current situation/ is utterly beyond my ken. Why would any spammer > bother to hack Lycos' botnet? They /already have their own/. Well, if I don't have one now, I could build my own botnet, which takes time and exposes significant risk over a lot of sites as I try to acquire them, or I could look at one site which, if I can compromise it, gives me instant access to a huge botnet. There are lots of places in the world where people/companies store dangerous waste. Some of these dumps are huge, most are small, all are dangerous. Now I read that someone who certainly ought to know better has decided to make yet another of the huge waste dumps, but that's apparently OK, because they exist anyway. -- Jim Segrave [email protected]
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