The Symposium was a blast
Aaah, so, the public part of the symposium was over. It was a packed day, and a lot of really good points. Matthew Prince had a map with dots representing locations where harvesting bots originated, and I was surprised to see Oslo had a dot! That’s unreal. I thought our only outrageous spammer was behind bars!
There was a lot of interest connected to SpammerX. He had a fascinating story to tell. He was a spammer up until a year and a half ago, so his information is still timely. He was sketching out a spammer organization, where everybody has specific jobs, and also talked about how some spamming operations distribute funds based on the referrers going to the main site. That’s something I’ve speculated on, but we see little of that with webspammers. With mailspammers, you have a small group of spammers working for a (for instance) pill manufacturer, so it would be possible to do it by referrer.
I have to go get ready. We’ve got some stuff planned for this evening. I’ll blog more later. I met some other interesting people there today that I hope to hear from soon.
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:07 am
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