95% of this thread is nonsense. ----
100% of the statistics in my email are made up. -- Joel Esler [email protected] http://www.joelesler.net On Tuesday, February 23, 2010, at 02:48PM, "Hubbard, Dan" <[email protected]> wrote: >All; > >I am guilty of being way late to this party, however... > >Whoever started this thread where did you get the 95% stat from? This may be >completely off and/or irrelevant but I am *guessing* that the stat 95% of User >Generated Content (UGC) is coming from us. This actually is *not* email SPAM. >This is comment-spam in the form of web-posts into blogs, forums,etc.. > >Just wondering if the leap was made from UGC to email SPAM somehow. > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Dan Kaminsky >Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:42 AM >To: Rich Kulawiec >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [funsec] 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious > >On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 07:34:56AM -0500, Dan Kaminsky wrote: >>> All I know is that I have a couple of email accounts that get >>> negligible amounts of spam. Oh, they're *sent* huge amounts, but they >>> receive almost none. >> >> But this is not the only metric with which to evaluate mail defenses. > >I disagree. This is the only metric that matters: In 2007, I got a >lot of spam. In 2010, I get a few messages *a month*. > >A MONTH! > >> Anyway, one of the direct consequences of this reality is that testing >> methodologies need to be very carefully constructed. Anyone who >> just plugs boxes from vendors X Y and Z into their network and does a >> head-to-head comparison is not going to get a true picture of how those >> systems really compare: they're only going to get a limited picture of how >> those systems compare at the moment on their network(s) on their ASN(s) >> with their domain(s). > >Spam fighting as a product seems to be having problems. Spam fighting >as a service is doing extremely well. > >Who knows. Maybe the bad guys are reverse engineering all the >products, but can't do the same to the services. > >_______________________________________________ >Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > > Protected by Websense Hosted Email Security -- www.websense.com > >_______________________________________________ >Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
