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Makes me want to found a vigilante spam elimination society. Legal methods don't seem to work /mutter
by foobarian 4y ago
Makes me want to found a vigilante spam elimination society. Legal methods don't seem to work /mutter
- warning26 4y agoHow would that work? Track down spammers and murder them? Could make for an interesting movie plot.
- bregma 4y ago[flagged]
- mattkevan 4y agoCheck out Rule 34 by Charlie Stross, which is based on exactly that idea. Spoilers, but the basic gist is that an advanced anti-spam AI decides to tackle the problem at the source, so to speak. Recommended reading.
- tyingq 4y agoThere's plenty of collateral damage in existing efforts. Makes the false positive black list entries a little more high-stakes.
- hutzlibu 4y ago"Could make for an interesting movie plot." One that probably leads very quickly to WW3, as the protagonists will find out, that most of the scammers are in countries not on friendly terms with the west (and therefore they tolerate cybercrime against the west). There are also plenty of scammer operating from the west, though, so that anti spam foundation would not run out of work even if they just limit their activities to the west.
- dehrmann 4y agoImagine the penalty for murdering a Nigerian price.
- Cyphase 4y agoThis was a minor plot point in Freedom™, the sequel to Daemon by Daniel Suarez: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2
- LinuxBender 4y agoThere are middle grounds. I have a myriad of servers that accept email for any domain as fast as the spam bots can send it, meaning the bots will detect them as open relays. Some bots use tracking codes back to themselves to confirm the relay is indeed open but many do not. The SMTP prompt even says not to use it. Some spammers eventually catch on and start trying poorly to attack my nodes which leads me to believe most of the spammers are not very technical.
- twiddling 4y agoStart with the green card lawyers that kicked it off...