We all know how frustrating Spam is, currently i am subjected to spam on the following mediums:<\/p>\n
As far as e-mail spam goes I keep track of time spent checking email for spam using iScan<\/a>. This year I checked 311 611 emails for spam and spent 13 700 seconds of system time to do so. Of the 311 611 emails I checked 41 470 of them were tagged as spam. Of the 12 Gb of email I processed this year 300 Mb was spam tagged. Those are large figures and I am running a pretty small system for only a handfull of people, I would hate to imagine the impact that spam has on large ISPs. We all know how frustrating Spam is, currently i am subjected to spam on the following mediums: E-Mail – In the order of 4500 per month Pop-ups, Pop-unders, Spyware and other malware. Thanks to the Mozilla Adblocker and its pop-up blocking this is not a big problem anymore either. Blog comments, luckily not by my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSo given all of this it does not surprise me at all to read stories such as the one about a ongoing war<\/a> between a blog hosting company in the Netherlands and a spamming outfit in the states, people threatening anthrax attacks<\/a> on spammers and the various name-and-shame tactics that anti-spammers are deploying to make the lives of spammers hell. I can sympathize with them and understand their rage.
\nOur only hope will be legislation and strong legal prosecution, there is no clear way to protect us from a technological point of view from attacks on all these fronts, the protocols we use such as SMTP and HTTP are all too weak and easy to abuse from a meta data point of view. The current spam laws<\/a> leaves much to be desired, the people who are heading up government initiatives are clueless<\/a> on a level I never thought possible so the future is looking pretty bleak. It seems that anyone with a desire to remain freely contactable will have to suffer as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"