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<title>TidBITS: Spam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The spamming incident this week prompts me to get around to asking a <br>
few questions here I've been formulating for several weeks: What are <br>
the obstacles that prevent the public-service hacking into spammers' <br>
source machines and disabling them? Just the ethics of this being a <br>
kind of vigilantism? Legalities? The risks of retaliation for doing <br>
so? Or are there insurmountable technical blocks?<br>
<br>
Congress seems to be unable to take any sort of effective action (how <br>
powerful is the pro-spam lobby, anyway? And who ARE those guys?).<br>
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