Re: [Asrg] DCC and IP checksums

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:34:05 +0100, Hadmut Danisch said:

> Some years ago, hackers used to be highly sophisticated experts.
> Meanwhile, the majority of attacks are driven by silly script kiddies
> using high sophisticated tools without understanding what's going on.
As I said on another list recently: "Sometimes, the data makes a lot more
sense if you analyze it thinking 'What if the Three Stooges were hackers?'"

> Reading some of the spams I receive I found that many of them seem
> to be sent with the very same software and address list. There are
I've certainly seen my share of Three Stooges spammers...

One particularly bad day, I had one spammer send me:

CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR SITE

In a text/plain.  No HTML. No anchors. No http:. Nothing.  Quite obviously
slice-and-miced from another spam and all the anchors lost. Whoops.

About 15 minutes later, I had some spam land in the Listserv postmaster's
mailbox because it was sent to an invalid userid.  The part that made it
pathetic-to-the-point-I-hope-they-dont-reproduce was that they were marketing
a CD with 400 million allegedly verified email addresses....

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