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- guyro, on 11/12/2008, -1/+91Good work Brian Krebs!
- diggface5000, on 11/12/2008, -0/+71From the original article: Officials from McColo did not respond to multiple e-mails, phone calls and instant messages left at the contact points listed on the company's Web site.
Maybe if all of digg participates in the multple emails, phone calls, and ims mccolo can begin to grasp how annoying they are. - WayneGoode, on 11/12/2008, -0/+69According to PC World, http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com ... spam dropped 41% yesterday, although the drop is expected to only be temporary.
- doiveo, on 11/12/2008, -1/+4875% is a very optimistic number. Most of mine comes from Russia and China now.
- yunus, on 11/12/2008, -1/+45Ted Stevens should be thrilled, his internets will just fly through the tubes now.
- SzymonStas, on 11/12/2008, -3/+47Finally, an ISP that's shutting down the real criminals.
- mac888, on 11/12/2008, -23/+64the death penalty should reserved exclusively for spammers
- uknowwhoibe, on 11/12/2008, -1/+41How many people tried to go to McColo's website, even though the article said it was shut down?
I did. - chrisbarr, on 11/13/2008, -0/+39I work for a spam filtering company and we normally process around 5000 messages per second, and today there was a sharp drop to 1000 messages per second - that's the lowest number anyone has ever seen here.
I'm glad to see spammers shut down, but at the same time they keep me employed.....go figure. - Briandrews15, on 11/12/2008, -0/+26you know... digg is more than reading comments, you're supposed to read the article first.
- kingmanic, on 11/12/2008, -1/+24
They sent them a sternly worded email. - zadadka, on 11/12/2008, -2/+24Digg It Up.
Great work...great outcome. - Dinsdale77, on 11/12/2008, -0/+21I like this.
- philrenaud, on 11/12/2008, -0/+18Awesome news, but according to the article, this will only last a few days before they find a new home.
So, for the next couple days, if you peek over a coworker's shoulder and see a viagra ad in his inbox, you can more safely assume that he asked for it. Just sayin'. - AmazingA, on 11/13/2008, -1/+16Why weren't they shut down sooner? I've always assumed that most spam was coming from overseas, but if half of it was coming from ONE company in the states then I don't see how we didn't catch this.
Guess the government was too busy doing the RIAA's errands. - DirtyVicar, on 11/12/2008, -0/+15The Washington Post rules! They have the full content of their paper for free going back decades (thus, many old AP and UPI stories) and in today's political climate they're the voice of reason. If I had a few more bucks around here I'd subscribe to their paper just to show my support.
- lysdexic, on 11/13/2008, -0/+13How about posting your phone number then so Digg can throw some free speech your way?
- Catch_ME, on 11/13/2008, -0/+13That is the greatest idea i heard all day!
- netneutrality, on 11/13/2008, -2/+15From Google's cache of the "About" page on McColo's website:
ICQ:
407737
403222
Phone:
+1-914-455-5598
Fax:
+1-408-716-8899
Our post address
McColo Corp., 64 East main st., Box 275
Newark, DE, 19715, USA
(There were some email addresses too but I don't suppose they'll be reachable now the domains are down...) - Charlotte_Web, on 11/13/2008, -0/+13According to Ars Technica, McColo was involved in more than just spam:
"The company's elite clientele included distributors of child pornography, commercial websites to allow purchase and delivery of the same, plus the usual group of thieves, fraudsters, and generally bad people."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081112-spam ... - mhmandthen, on 11/12/2008, -2/+14***** spammers, and ***** you too.
- wonderworm, on 11/12/2008, -0/+11They should spend a minimum 10 years in the big house and all of their assets and homes should be seized. Spammers who hurt Billions of people and cost Billions should atleast get a worse sentence than the nice guy who grows a few pot plants in his house hurting noone,
- BradMajors, on 11/13/2008, -0/+11Most of the world's spam originates in the United States but is routed through Russia and China to hide its true source.
- Charlotte_Web, on 11/13/2008, -0/+11True, the business is too lucrative to be stopped so easily.
The fact that 75% of spam could be consolidated in one place only means that spammers hadn't faced a serious challenge to their business until now. - alism, on 11/13/2008, -1/+11Another nice graph:
http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/11/1970.h ... - yunus, on 11/13/2008, -0/+10Calling the internet a series of tubes or a series of pipes by itself is not a crazy thing to say. However when you combine it with staffers sending you internets on Friday and not arriving until Tuesday because its not a truck it becomes freakin hilarious.
- diggproof, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1025% is still gonna be annoying
- netneutrality, on 11/13/2008, -0/+8Hmmmmmm.... This tracker shows a very definite dipp from the latter quarter of Tuesday; Wednesday results so far are WAY down: http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek
- Paulish, on 11/13/2008, -0/+8Don't worry, I doubt you will ever run out of work to do. There is always some way to deliver spam to the gullible masses.
- fatlipcdn, on 11/12/2008, -0/+8Someone was definitely shut off! I run a small hosting company (about 1000 email accounts) and I can actually read my SMTP proxy log files without having to pause the screen!
- a2fan, on 11/12/2008, -0/+8My Barracuda spam firewall shows a huge dip in spam dinging my domain... down about half what we usually average. I know it's a temporary reprieve but it will be interesting to track what happens next. Probably more emphasis on botnet relays, ie more trojans.
- lifenstein, on 05/30/2009, -6/+14Spam? I totally don't get it.. what does it mean?
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Gmail User. - Temujin64, on 11/12/2008, -1/+8Excuse my profanity but, ***** A!
- sethpr, on 11/13/2008, -4/+11I was tortured by a killer spammer you insensitive clod!
- atbnet, on 11/13/2008, -2/+9I was surprised at the amount of spam that all comes from primarily one source.
http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek
http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spammonth
I feel that ISPs shouldn't actively monitor their customers activities, but with that much spam coming from one place they would have had to received complaints. - saisumimen, on 11/13/2008, -2/+8I've been using gmail for a long time now, and I can assure you that I get spam, and no, I don't leave my email address in public places.
You must be a new user... trust me, it'll start coming. Although I have to say their spam filter is much better than Yahoo's, MSN's, etc. - sexybobo, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6how are they going to respond if they were totally disconnected?
- OriginalReplica, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6The only people Diggers should email is the chief prosecutor in every place McColo had servers or offices. No slap on the wrist white collar prison, demand hard time in a real prison.
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -6/+12blankfags can't newpost
- LanEvo, on 11/13/2008, -1/+7just like bubba's gonna fly through his tubes.
- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5Here's a macro program I use that shows how you can automate form entry and spam the spammers with just a couple keystrokes:
http://www.vellosoft.com/news/news0004.php - CarStan, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5WTF? Where am is upposed to get my Penis Enlargement Pills from now on?
- TheMidnight, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5No no, we're not going to white collar resort prison. We're going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
- Atomic05, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5Which of those do you think is more fun to say?
....tuuuubes.... - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5a VERY good point.
- rsHoratio, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5Brian Krebs, are you the chosen one?...
- barfooz, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5That's funny. Most credit card junk mail comes from Delaware as well (very lax corporate tax laws there). Delaware, you are the spammiest state of all.
- davidjunit, on 11/13/2008, -1/+5I've recently stopped receiving those annoying "(company name) Job Vacancy" e-mails that are the same thing but with a different company name every so often. I rarely get spam in my ISP-based mail and this was basically the only spam I got through it but has seemed to stop. Maybe they got tired of me filling out false info on their forms when I was super bored, heh. I've always wanted to make a script that would fill out and submit thousands of those forms.
- ileftfark, on 11/13/2008, -1/+5Great - now what the ***** is my hotmail inbox from 1999 supposed to do?
- bradleyland, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4Wait, you mean it's not a dump truck?
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