Much like Voltron, spam foes unite

Wired reports that "Spam Foes Unite".

In the highly globalized junk e-mail business, a spammer might operate from an office in the United States, rent attack-proof Web servers in China and send e-mail around the world through a network of zombie PCs. By contrast, the people tracking down spammers often don't have the first idea how to pursue their quarry across national boundaries, Mitchell said.

"Speaking as a lawyer in the antispam enforcement area, if we in the U.S. are dealing with a spam gang coming out of Germany, we don't know who to talk to, how the laws work or what we need to do to get them on the hook," Mitchell said. "Now we have this international council, each member of which is intimately connected with the e-mail industry in his or her respective country and can provide other members context, contacts and cooperation."

This is very interesting. I don't know enough about international law in countries such as Brazil, China, and Russia where many of the bulletproof hosting services are hosted out of (or claim to be hosted out of).
But if this group can actually do something to go after people that are doing this globalized spam sending - I'm all for it.

Posted by Eric at July 29, 2004 06:42 PM | TrackBack