[pchelpers] Re: Spammers targeted with DDoS attack (received from Entireweb)

This is the kind of vigilante activity that was common in the 
Wild West (and is the reason for the millions of guns still in US 
homes and the fact that many more innocent people than criminals 
are shot in the US) and that will be multiplying in the Internet 
unless governments, lawmakers, and civil servants stop being lazy 
about their responsibilities in this arena.

They are of course mainly lazy because not enough citizens 
complain, about 50% are even too lazy to vote in most countries 
(most of whom do not do so out of religious reasons that have to 
of course be respected), and those that do vote are easily conned 
into believing that nothing can or needs to be changed...

Another reason for the laziness of those primarily responsible is 
of course that it will not be before really serious things go 
wrong that they or the general republic will admit that Internet 
security can only be resolved by real international cooperation.

This is in fact the first real international issue in the history 
of mankind that will soon force governments and the general 
public to approve an international authority with the power to 
enforce law and order internationally.

Both the people who deride and who gag the UN (many of whom do 
both) will be forced to see the antiquatedness and hopeless 
stupidity of their attitude, which is directly responsible for 
the hunger and death of millions of people each year...



John Durham wrote:
> Got any comments on this?
> **Spammers targeted with DDoS attack**
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> * Turning the tables on bulk mailers...*
> 
> Lycos is offering its customers a screensaver that helps to launch 
> denial-of-service attacks on spammers' websites - a tactic more commonly 
> associated with hackers or the spammers themselves who abuse networks of 
> compromised machines to send large volumes of data.
> 
> 
> <http://services.entireweb.com/track/newsletter/newsletter79/click.php?id=8>
> 
> *The controversial move* is designed to use the idle processing power of a 
> computer to slow down the response times from spammers' websites.
> 

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