SpamAnti.net in May 2006

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Blue Security waves the white flag

This company had decided to avenge Internet users against spammers using their machines to bomb clearly identified spammers. Despite the obvious difficulty to correctly identify the targets, the technique had its partisans and followers.

But it also drew the wrath of some spammers. Recently a large number of zombie machines attacked Blue Security sites that subsequently announced abandonning this strategy and all its "anti-SPAM" activities.

Lesson 1: Spammers truly have the weapons of black hat hackers and there is an obvious relationship between virus, worms, SPAM and electronic warfare/terrorism. SPAM is no longer amateur sports.

Lesson 2: They obviously found the right target. It IS possible to hurt a spammer.

.xxx: Registrar sues US government

The ICANN had proposed the creation of a .xxx domain name suffix (a .com for sex-oriented sites). But the American government lobbied intensively against it.

.xxx will not exist. But the company selected to provide registration services for domain names using this suffix (the registrar), ICM Registry, decided to sue the US government and to start the new suffix procedure again.

It is just to say that many were surprised to see the US government so deeply engrossed with fighting a technique that would not increase sex on the Internet (is it still possible?) but merely would round it in a single location. Even the European Commission had epxressed its uneasiness at seeing one Country (isolated but influential) bending the ICANN decisions for Internet governance.

18 million SPAMs a day - Can you top this?

South Korean authorities just announced the arrest of a local spammer who - according to these sources - produced during 6 months of activity around 18 million SPAMs each and every day with zombie PCs.

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New encyclopaedia

I just published the latest version of the encyclopédie du courrier électronique et du spam (version D2). Good reading!

SpamAnti.net over 10,000!

More precisely, there were more than 10,000 visits to SpamAnti.net in the month of March 2006 only. I am glad you appreciate the site so regularly.

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