Meet Verizon, King of ISP Spammers

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via eWeek.

[snip]

The biggest spammer in the world is a huge, imposing presence in the
Internet, known for mercilessly wiping out opposition. China? Russia? No,
you guessed it: It's Verizon.

The numbers come from Trend Micro [1], one of the biggest security
companies in the world. I've known Dave Rand, chief technology officer of
Trend Micro Internet Content Security, for years. He is a pioneer of much
basic software for e-mail and other computing essentials, and a founder of
MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) with Paul Vixie, another computing
pioneer. The MAPS RBL, the blacklist with perhaps the most clout on the
Internet, is now also with Trend Micro. I sat down to lunch with Dave on
June 20.

[snip]

More:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2149093,00.asp

[1] https://nssg.trendmicro.com/nrs/reports/rank.php?page=1

My favorite quote:

"Verizon is hardly the only ISP that doesn't care about spam
being sent out of its network. It's just the worst example and
a good illustration of why ISPs don't care about client systems
that are spam bots."


- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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