February 16th, 2008
Jeremy Jaynes - Portrait Of A Spammer
Have you ever wondered just what sort of person sends spam? What type of person can nonchalantly annoy thousands of people every day and what is the gain for them? One of the biggest problems with spam is that it is a faceless crime - from both sides. To the spammer he has millions of faceless victims, he doesn’t really think of the millions of addresses he spams as people, and he doesn’t consider the aggravation his spamming causes. But it is also relatively faceless for us - the victim. We get upset at spam, but don’t make the next step to being upset at the spammer. This is perhaps a telling sign at how much we have come to accept spam as something that just happens. In this article I will discuss one of the most public cases made against a spammer in recent times.