On a thread in the e-com-sec discussion group, I asked what are we supposed to do when we get spam from known criminals such as the Nigerian Scam. We have a moral obligation to report criminals to the government, but police seem to be ill equipped to deal with individual internet solicitations of criminal activity. The tip lines are so overwhelmed as it is with more serious issues, that GOV has a serious need for a software magnet to find the key needle clues in their information haystack.
I was basically told that we should treat any spam as spam, forget about trying to deal with criminals the same way as is done in the real world outside of the Internet, and given an interesting link to a back issue of Sysmod's Praxis, which I have previously mentioned on my weblog. It included the following stimulating topics:
- Europe's anti-spam legislation.
- Microsoft IE patch
- The person in personal decisions about the computer you think you own, and stuff stored on it, is not you but Microsoft.
- Google Features
- Cyber Squatting
- Euro Glitches
- Euro Zone
- Nigeria Scam Clones
- Worst Web site (warning: protect your eyes)
- Longest domain name
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