On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 06:23:32PM -0500, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > OK Rich, I'll bite. Now that you've blown "spammer filth" for Zuckerberg, > what > pejorative term are you going to use for the botnet herders, the fake > penis-enlarging pill sellers, the whole 419 scene, the dirty-as-sin DNS > registries and hosting facilities, all of the RBN's electronic hijinks, and > other *real* bottom-feeders?
"Spammer filth". It just has that lexical ring to it. ;-) Slightly more seriously: there is no substantive difference between any of these other than their tactics. They're all part of the same ecosystem of abuse -- which is, unfortunately, rich enough to support all their diverse (and sometimes interlocking) approaches. ---rsk _______________________________________________ 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.