Major Anti-Spam Lawsuit To Be Filed In VA 77
Rick Zeman sends
us to the Washington Post, which is reporting that a John Doe lawsuit
will be filed in US District Court today in spam-unfriendly Alexandria,
Virginia. The suit will be filed by Project Honey Pot, which is having
a week of big
announcements. The suit seeks the identity of individuals
responsible for harvesting millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of
spammers. From the Post: "The company is filing the suit on behalf of
some 20,000 people who use its anti-spam tool. Web site owners use the
project's free software to generate pages that feature unique 'spam
trap' e-mail addresses each time those pages are visited. The software
then records the Internet address of the visitor and the date and time
of the visit. Because those addresses are never used to sign up for
e-mail lists, the software can help investigators draw connections
between harvesters and spammers if an address generated by a spam trap
or 'honey pot' later receives junk e-mail."
how about a link to the actual article? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yeah but what will the judge think (Score:3, Informative)
Re:RIAA tactics to catch spammers? (Score:4, Informative)
And even if they can't find the end person, they can at least educate the zombie PC owners using a real-world example instead of the fear tactics used to push crapware like Norton Internet Security.
Re:how about a link to the actual article? (Score:4, Informative)
Or what about a link to the Project Honey Pot page that explains the lawsuit [projecthoneypot.org] and contains a link to that Washington Post article?
Harvesting is the only source here (Score:3, Informative)
The way Project Honeypot works is this: