At 9:05 PM -0800 3/21/97, Dave Voorhis wrote:
>I think anyone running a busy list without some form of subscription
>confirmation is in for some serious unpleasantness, as the 'net seems to be
>attracting more and more boneheads of late, and sending fakemail is just
>too easy.
I will agree with this completely. (sigh).
>Finally, a question: I've heard that there's a piece of hackerware
>available which is designed to subscribe a victim to a large number of
>lists. Can anyone confirm this rumour?
I haven't seen it. I've never seen evidence of it leak onto places like
Alta Vista. But you can bet it exists. There are too many people using
the same spam attacks onto my sites in the same way with the same
patterns for it to be anything else -- even in terms of written
instructions. Someone's passing around toys, and idiots too stupid to
make their own toys are using them to screw the rest of us over.
If it were just me vs. the damn hacker, I could accept the challenge.
But the hacker keeps handing guns out to toddlers, and the toddlers
keep shooting people in the foot. Which makes me want to find the
original hacker even more....
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