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How would that work? Track down spammers and murder them? Could make for an interesting movie plot.
by warning26 3y ago
How would that work? Track down spammers and murder them? Could make for an interesting movie plot.
- bregma 3y ago[flagged]
- mattkevan 3y 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 3y agoThere's plenty of collateral damage in existing efforts. Makes the false positive black list entries a little more high-stakes.
- hutzlibu 3y 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 3y agoImagine the penalty for murdering a Nigerian price.
- Cyphase 3y 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