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Re: 2. Spam Analysis - Economics (was Re: spammer economics; was: RE: [Asrg] hiring challenge responders)

2003-08-14 03:24:52
On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 00:50 Europe/London, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:

Take into account the use of hijacked computers and the whole economics model is blown to bits since using those computers does not incur any cost. Combine that with the 70% figure provided by MessageLabs for use of hijacked computers and we are all in deep trouble.

The majority of the hijacked computer sent spam we see is just plain old open proxies. Using an open proxy doesn't give you any extra bandwidth, it's just an anonymising tool.

Matt.


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