Let’s end the month on a good note, a guilty plea on an antispam case

While I thought this would be good, and we should celebrate, I lknow that jaredrimer.net is being innodated with Spam on a daily basis.

In any case, in the better late than never department, I’d like to present a good article and something we seldom see. The article was sent to the TSB list in June, and it is titled Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case. It was written by our good friend over at Krebs On Security, Brian Krebs.

Spam is something that we have to fight on a regular basis, and sometimes, the technology can only do so much.

I could turn on spam assassin on the domain, it only marks the messages. I could also turn on box trapper, but then it would send back a message to which the user needs to verify. That’s well in good, but then you run in to those automated emails, the ones for newsletters and the like, so then you have to whitelist those domains.

That’s all well good, but it only works if you put in the time to set it up and you have to have the service.

What if you don’t? You can filter it all, and Gmail is pretty good at a global level, but what if you don’t have Gmail? That’s where arrests and pleadings like this come in. Its a glimmer of hope and I’m curious if you’ve read this article now or when it was released what you think of this.

There are 4 people listed and linked within the article, and plenty of info to boot. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.