"Now listen you maggots! Shoot 'em, blow 'em, kill 'em anyway you like, but remember this. The blue ones are bulletproof, so use knives or grenades. But not on the green ones, those are resistant to all forms of explosives... and poison, I think. The black ones cannot be drowned and the purple ones can safely ignore radiation, so nukes are useless. War has become more complicated, I guess."

People have a lot of space they scarcely/ever use. But why just hackers? When we start doing good, let's extend it to other professions. In no time, you will have two attorneys in the attic, a group of gangsters in the garage, a Romanian refugee in the refrigerator, an established loan-shark in the lounge, few pick-pockets in the patio, a visionary in the vestibule, and maybe even a killer in the kitchen.

But what if those people start interacting with each other?

Since Chinese control 3 of the root DNS servers, I bet they are given the root zone KSKs.. and with them, you can spoof any record.

... I use the fantastic, free OpenDNS, and I have set resolv.conf to ns1.opendns.ch and ns2.opendns.ch years ago... crap! John, tear the wire from the wall, fast!

Why do we have it then? AFAIK root zone was signed in May, so just don't send those super secret root zone KSKs to red commies and every validating resolver is safe!

Hooray for advanced protocol beating the red threat back!

Handful of insects
thrown to the Martian red sky
mosquitos
wasps
bees
flies
all fall and promptly die
without atmosphere
noone can fly
experiment failed
but tax dollars flow my way...

That is exactly the middle-management mentality that causes so much trouble: "Look, it works, it killed the fly. Oh, and it also killed the whole village..."

Maybe you would be better off plugging the network cable off - voila, stops spam 100%. The problem is that blacklists like these create a lot of false positives - legitimate customers of other ISPs whose IPs and IP ranges got blacklisted can't mail to your clients. Not your problem? Wrong, it is your problem, because by applying the blacklist "solution" without proper consideration, you are punishing innocent people collectively (bad practice).

Imagine an ISP with outgoing mailserver for many ADSL users - many users today have compromised Windows instalations serving as zombies for spammers. ISPs cannot effectively prevent this, yet when the zombie awakens and spams, everyone else using the same server is punished by the blacklist.

You are just moving the hassle to the other guy, which is once again, bad. There is no "magic bullet" solution to spam, but it pays to be considerate and responsible. And if your customers leave because they can't receive legitimate mail, don't be surprised. And if your answer is "It ain't my problem", you don't deserve them anyway.

Finally, these self-righteous, blackmailing schmoosters go down in flames! I wonder how much money they extorted over the years, but I guess people eventually came to their senses and stopped paying.

... Thief 4 is basically a stolen license :-)

BTW Thief 3 sucked badly.

An attention from Slashdot probably means more traffic they needed.