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Re: [Asrg] Solving spam == Solving zombies/botnets

2008-12-03 05:12:39
On 02/12/2008 10:55, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org> wrote:

  Botnets have evolved.  Instead of trying to send a million emails a
night through one zombied machine, botnets now send 4 emails a night
through each of 250,000 machines.  The latter is almost impossible to
detect, versus the former.

  What it boils down to is that to majorly reduce spam, we have to
majorly reduce botnets/zombies.

Hooray!  Let it be shouted throughout the land: on 12th December 2008, the
ASRG caught up to the anti-spam conversation circa 2006.


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