Originally published October 9 2003
When there's money to be had, they'll get creative
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
No surprise here: spammers now have a new tool to avoid identification. It's basically a distributed DNS system. This isn't really fancy technology, in fact. It's just a large network of individual PCs tossing around DNS responsibilities. Interesting stuff from a technical point of view, but downright annoying when used by spammers.
The trend is important here and this shows why a do-not-email list is utterly useless: spammers are not law followers. They will go to great lengths to avoid detection by law enforcement authorities. Accordingly, even if a do-not-email list existed, the FTC would be powerless to enforce it. Even if they could find the spammers, the FTC has no jurisdiction outside the country anyway.
- Call them spackers -- they're the new breed of computer crackers who
earn a living in cahoots with spammers.
- For $1,500 per month, the group says it can protect a site from
network sleuthing tools used by spam opponents, such as traceroute and
whois.
- In the past, shutting down a site used to sell spammed products -- or
to rip off gullible online users via phishing schemes -- was often just
a matter of notifying the hosting company responsible for the IP
address.
- When asked on an online chat for a demonstration of the stealth
hosting service, Tubul provided the address of a website selling generic
Viagra and other drugs.
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