Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/spam_volumes_drop_by_23_after.html

by kschrader • 18 years ago

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Brushfire• 18 years ago

One word: Awesome.

sh1mmer• 18 years ago

It's interesting to me that the spammers can recover their operations in merely a few days. Few organisations I can think of could move their entire infrastructure to another provide from a hard shutdown in that amount of time.

I also find it surprising that the obvious barrier exist to shutting these operations down. Since they seems to have a handful of these hosts shut down a year the impact on (illegal) spammers is minimal given their turn around time to redeploy on a new host. That is a sad failure in the legal system. I'd at least like to see the Western world have the legal infrastructure to push this stuff offshore to China, etc.

car2• 18 years ago

I like Hurricane Electric, fine folks over there. It shows in their actions. I'd give them my business any day. Consider them if you are in the Bay Area.

dfranke• 18 years ago

Their free IPv6 tunnels are awesome. I'll be interested to see if they can somehow use their foothold in the IPv6 market to become a dominant player when the v4 address crunch forces v6 mainstream.

davidw• 18 years ago

Why should I pay for what is more or less a commodity business that is located in one of the most expensive parts of the country?

car2• 18 years ago

Because a) nobody provides these services free, b) HE has very competitive prices, and c) their location doesn't matter.

mojuba• 18 years ago

So this ends the myth that spam is distributed by Russians and Chinese. (Well, that's probably still true for Russian and Chinese spam, but not English.)

It is also good to know that botnets aren't fully responsible for this, because otherwise spam would be almost unbeatable.

albertcardona• 18 years ago

The article concludes by quoting:

"We're seeing a slow recovery," Bhandari. "We fully expect this to recover completely, and to go into the highest ever spam period during the upcoming holiday season."

When will spamming stop being profitable? There's certainly no shortage of fools in this world--something must be done to the medium itself.

Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline

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