Everyone hates spam. I mean, ok, some people may actually like advertising, but spam isn’t just ads. Most spams are genuine frauds & scams. And who likes to be defrauded?
So why hasn’t it been stopped yet? Why do we see the volume of spam in our mailboxes only growing instead?
One of the markings of the past ‘06 was the drastic attempt by guys of BlueSecurity (Israel based BTW) to finally stop this vice. The idea was brilliant - to block spammers with the spammers’ methods - DDoS against the spamvertised sites (used to distribute goods - either electronic or physical), effectively stopping sales, not the innocent zombified home computers (used to promote those goods).
The plan was so huge, it hit spammers really hard, but didn’t stop spam on Earth.
Unfortunately the good guys have lost this blitzkrieg. The spammers struck back and made notable collateral damage to the whole Internet, generating quite a lot of news - on slashdot.org, Washington Post etc.
As we see, it is a multimillion-dollar business which makes tier-1 ISPs to play to their tune. This is the problem as ever more laymen are joining the Internet in coming years. The more technically unsavvy the average Internet user becomes, the more desirable target for spammers the userbase presents.
Sadly, unprofessional users are both consumers of spam and tools in hands of spammers to spread the evil.
And as long as big criminals are entering the game (see BBC report for e.g.) we are about to become witnesses of large financial interests repartition which historically leads to… wars.
Furthermore, assuming these interests are not merely large, but worldwide - just like the phenomenon of Internet economy suggests - the problem at hand (the war) provokes to be more precisely called “The World (War)”…
