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join:2000-11-21 | About time!! Minimum sentence should be 24 months!! That should stop a few of them!!! | |
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | Re: About time!! You mean slapping people on wrist doesn't work? | |
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| bi0tech
join:2003-06-19
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April 11th, @09:40AM
| Re: Brilliant IDEA ! Yeah I mean it's not like they could control software from another country... [/end sarc]
Unless they are actually proven to steal personal information this has absolutely no business entering the criminal arena which jail time would require. If you want to pursue this then why not your isp and search engines for routinely selling your browsing habits to the highest bidder largely for a pittance.
This just reaffirms the judicial system still has no idea what to do with the internet. | |
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| | BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs: | Re: Brilliant IDEA ! Exactly my point.
These clowns get involved in stuff they don't know. It's amazing how dumb this crap is.
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| moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | I have been saying the same thing for years.  | |
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jhawk44
join:2006-10-19
USA | finally. finally some action aganst spyware! | |
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TScheisskopf
World News Trust
join:2005-02-13
Belvidere, NJ
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| I have often wondered... Why some of the existing laws on illegal access and manipulation of computer systems have not been applied against commercial malware/spyware concerns. Lord knows I have seen enough systems burnt to the ground by the stuff, creating loss of data and the cocommitent expense.
With all the ways that prosecutors pile on charges against petty offenders, by using creative interpretations of existing laws, it has long been a mystery to me why these cases have not been treated in the same way. | |
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cableties
Premium
join:2005-01-27
Levittown, PA
| Define Spyware... ..is the first question the defendant will challenge.
And I would like to add spam. Some will argue that spam is not spyware but I will challenge that with that spam that tracks back the IP (an image, gif, or html crafted).
This means the spammer, like spyware, has the ability to confirm that the recipient is valid and proceeds to sell the email address and unleash more spam. Not as sophisticated as controlling and monitoring, but still a "simple" spy method; it achieves the goal of verification.
So spammers should be jail too. Think FTC is that smart though?  | |
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| bi0tech
join:2003-06-19
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| Re: Define Spyware... ... define spam then
Does it's definition necessitate a callhome system? You can confirm an address exists almost as easily by bouncing a message and tracking no delivery reports. There are hundreds of questions to answer if you wanted to device a true spam classification, which is likely to be completely ignored in all but the most egregious instances.
I'd rate the overall intelligence shown by the FTC to date somewhere between your average dog and cat. And yes the cat is on the higher end of the spectrum because on average anything it doesn't understand it will just leave it the hell alone.
MP break (SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM, lovely spam wonderful spam) | |
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houselog442
join:2005-10-05 | Send them to Russia where they shoot spyware merchants They ought to just send them to Russia where they still shoot people like that! | |
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antiphishing
Nigerian 419 Scam Baiter
Premium
join:2004-06-09
Wilkes Barre, PA
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April 11th, @03:12PM
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It's about time the 'Federal Trade Commission' got their act together and started doing something about the problem of spyware. If the F.T.C. only had enough balls to enforce the Can-The-Spam-Act(2003),then go after the low life spammers who continue to target my email accounts on a daily basis.
Sophos research reveals dirty dozen spam-relaying nations
Poles poll third highest as UK avoids chart for first quarter of 2007
»www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/···r07.html
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bigjimc
join:2003-04-21
Middleboro, MA | Lock em up Room him with Big T and his Big Bone....
Give 'em a year with Big T. See how anal retentive he will be after that year.
Nuff said.
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | better than jail. . . . FREEZE THEIR ASSETS!
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FTC: Jail For Spyware Merchants
Brilliant IDEA !