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[Arthur Flexser]

I assume that to be the motivation of spammers, but we're talking
about attacks on websites.  How does that make money for anyone?

Art

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:17 PM, William Schaub<wschaub at steubentech.com> wrote:
> Arthur Flexser wrote:
>>
>> Which still leaves, "what on earth for?"   What do the masters of
>> those bots hope to accomplish with all these attacks?
>>
>> Art
>>
>>
>
> My guess would be to "MAKE MONEY FAST!" by selling various "ehancement"
> products and such.  It is a truly depraved
> world we live in and somehow the net has stopped being about people
> communicating together and more about machines screaming as loudly as
> possible to each other selling things nobody wants and making the network
> unusable for real human beings.  and as the spammer's scripts get more
> sophisticated  we have to keep up with the arms race. which really is a
> shame since so much time and resources are spent fighting spam that little
> time is left for anything else.
>
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