[Asrg] Solving spam == Solving zombies/botnets
Andrew D Kirch
trelane at trelane.net
Mon Dec 1 22:25:23 PST 2008
Walter Dnes wrote:
> What it boils down to is that to majorly reduce spam, we have to
> majorly reduce botnets/zombies.
>
I concur, I'm just not sure that we're going to pull it off. There's
little to no liability for the provider. I'd love to see someone start
suing yahoo, or the web cafe, or the compromised server that phishing
attacks come through. Unless you hit their pocketbook they simply don't
care.
Andrew
More information about the Asrg
mailing list