[geeks] This is bad but tempting

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:02:36AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Tue, 20 Apr 2004 @ 09:44 -0700, N. Miller said:
> > It's occurred to me, that since all of the recent email worms have not
> > had any destructive payload that they may well be research for 
> > implementation of a distributed spam system...one in which it's very
> > difficult to track the spammers since they are not the ones sending
> > the spam.
> > 
> > Or am I just being paranoid?
> 
> That's an interesting idea.
> 
> Given how bold they are already, I don't see this as impossible.


I've seen reports indicating they're already doing this.


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