Re: Catching Spammers with IDS

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Tuesday, April 12, 2005 03:10:12 AM +0000 Greg Martin <greg () ddos com> 
wrote:
> Please share your knowledge, snort rules, bpf's anything to help bring
> and end to this nuisance
An IDS is not the right tool for spam control, but "bringing an end" to the 
nuisance is not very likely.  A spammer from North Carolina was recently 
convicted and sentenced to 9 years in prison.  During the trial it was 
revealed that he was making $750,000 a *month*.  He sent over 1 million 
emails per day.

At a cost of $21.95/month and a gross income of over $8 million/year, 
you're never going to stop spam.  There's too many unprincipled people 
willing to take advantage of their fellow man and dazzled by the prospect 
of ill-gotten gains.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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