[geeks] This is bad but tempting

[N. Miller]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:02:36 -0400, "Charles Shannon Hendrix"
<shannon at widomaker.com> said:
> Tue, 20 Apr 2004 @ 09:44 -0700, N. Miller said:
> 
> > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:57:40 -0500, "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> > said:
> > > Am I the only one to whom this screams "SPAM FARM"?
> > > 
> > 
> > It's occurred to me, that since all of the recent email worms have not
> > had any destructive payload that they may well be research for 
> > implementation of a distributed spam system...one in which it's very
> > difficult to track the spammers since they are not the ones sending
> > the spam.
> > 
> > Or am I just being paranoid?
> 
> That's an interesting idea.
> 
> Given how bold they are already, I don't see this as impossible.

Given the spammers' bank accounts, and the criminal and national 
elements of other world superpowers (I use the term loosely) that 
have a serious stake in furthering information warfare against the
US, I think it's a pretty reasonable inference.  I bet there are some
pretty big brains and many, many computer nodes being applied to
these types of "interesting problems." 

Think about the potential of this combined with another vector, 
such as a concerted effort to eliminate information security
experts...

=Nadine=
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  N. Miller
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