We've had Steve Kirsch of Abaca present his very interesting anti-spam technology to our group, but the FBI may have done more good than Symantec, McAfee, and SurfControl combined, they arrested Robert Anthony Soloway, the "Spam King."
According to the article, this represented a real decrease in the amount of Spam on the Internet. A measured 8% drop in Spam equates to 6 billion messages. Unfortunately there are still a whopping 74 billion messages out there clogging the network. The majority of the messages are sent via compromised PCs acting as drones in a Spam sending bot-net. These bot-nets are very powerful. A spammer even chased an anti-spam company Blue Security out of the anti-spam business by launching an attack on their site.
This is the first real enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act. Is government intervention needed to stop Spam? Or, has private private industry come up with solutions that are "good-enough." Will more arrests help? or will other spammers rise up to take their place? What do our CIO members think?
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