Comment Re:OK. who's behind this? (Score 3, Interesting) 415
One thing interesting to me is that the English used in some of the log messages and other bits of this distributed SPAM system were very obviously written by someone for whom English is a second language. There wasn't enough of it to guess what their native language is, and their English is pretty good, avoiding the common mistakes that usually give away the type of native language.
Given the the German and Russian addresses, I would not at all be surprised if the distributed SPAM software was written by someone in Russia on contract to (paid by) some SPAM company in the U.S. Or perhaps it was written by a foreign national residing in the USA -- like this "Charles Fish" fellow.
Of course, the SPAM regulation law that Congress just passed is almost useless. It never declares or makes SPAM illegal. It just requires spammers to not forge addresses and silly things like that.
I think every corporate IT administrator or geek of another sort should repeatedly emphasize how much time and money is being lost to SPAM until the big corporations really put the pressure on world governments to make SPAM flat out illegal. That won't stop it, but it will give the folks fighting it some legal teeth with which to chomp on the culprits when they can be cornered.
Given the the German and Russian addresses, I would not at all be surprised if the distributed SPAM software was written by someone in Russia on contract to (paid by) some SPAM company in the U.S. Or perhaps it was written by a foreign national residing in the USA -- like this "Charles Fish" fellow.
Of course, the SPAM regulation law that Congress just passed is almost useless. It never declares or makes SPAM illegal. It just requires spammers to not forge addresses and silly things like that.
I think every corporate IT administrator or geek of another sort should repeatedly emphasize how much time and money is being lost to SPAM until the big corporations really put the pressure on world governments to make SPAM flat out illegal. That won't stop it, but it will give the folks fighting it some legal teeth with which to chomp on the culprits when they can be cornered.
