That sentence is A joke 15000 subscribers affected Court Convicts Obscene Text Messager http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IPQ4NZVA4P24ACRBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&storyID=5504916 --- Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
And again, much of this comes down to enforcement. When was the last time you heard of a spammer's domain being pulled? How about the last time you saw a spammer be even remotely bothered by having their domain pulled? Do you think they'll really care less about losing a mail server when they've got another dozen lined up ready and waiting?
Well, just a couple of days ago I read about a Russian court in Chelyabinsk that sentenced a spammer to two years in prison. It's the first conviction under a Russian law that forbids the use of malicious software and the court felt that the spamming scripts used by this guy were malicious software.
What he did was to send text messages to mobile phone subscribers of a single company by means of a web gateway. I think the main reason he was put on trial was because the mobile operator whose customers were getting the spam and whose gateway was being misused, went to the police and complained. How many ISPs in the USA go to the police and register official complaints about spammers? We have lots of smart people who can track down and identify spammers but it does no good unless the companies who suffer damage register an official police complaint.
--Michael Dillon