Sunday, March 11th @ 3:30 pm
Steven Champeon CTO, hesketh.com Inc
Antisocial networking – dealing with online abuse
http://hesketh.com/presentation/sxsw/2007
Spam: uncolicited bule e-mail
About CONSENT not content – i don’t care who you are, i didn’t give you permimssion to send to me
Better title: messaging abuse
Did I ask for this?
Why does it matter?
10 to 1 spam to legit email
splogs also rising
419 scams
Whose to blame?
criminal gangs virus writers
pornographers
illegal pharm
mainsleaze – commercial mailers
Where does spam come from?
botnets
static networks
companies w/bad list management (oops)
open proxies and relays
At any moment in time there are 10’s of thousands of botnet computers out there
Trackback and Comment Spam
trying to get message out
piggyback on your openness
can deliver payloads
creates barrier to entry for newbies
What to do
secure your computer
spam filter
content filter (doomed to fail)
ISP outbound filters
lawsuits – criminal charges against spammers
don’t abandone email addresses or blogs