Aussies sanitise the net

[AtW]

I said cut down a lot of SPAM and IP spoofing, not cut out SPAM entirely.

Do you know what IP spoofing is? It does not look that you do.

The reason that PCs can be readily hijacked is also argueably down to an almost complete lack of accountability and traceability. As I said, it would need a global [police] effort to enforce.

The reason PCs are hijacked is because people are stupid - they run attachments from unknown sources (or even known), download infected stuff from P2P or just browse the net in unpatched machines, to top this up most people (including me) use OS that is very vulnerable.

The main problem with those scumbags that actually cause the trouble is that they reside in corrupt countries where police are not even interested in those cases, and even if it were it can be bought off. If Russia and China were cut off completely from Internet access to other countries then amount of spam and other crap would drop big time, perhaps this is what needs to be done in order to force people in those countries to demand from their own Govt that scum among them is put to prison. Unfortunately political regimes in those countries would probably be pleased if international Internet was cut off.

[TimberWolf]

The main problem with those scumbags that actually cause the trouble is that they reside in corrupt countries where police are not even interested in those cases, and even if it were it can be bought off. If Russia and China were cut off completely from Internet access to other countries then amount of spam and other carp would drop big time, perhaps this is what needs to be done in order to force people in those countries to demand from their own Govt that scum among them is put to prison. Unfortunately political regimes in those countries would probably be pleased if international Internet was cut off.

How can I argue when you provide your very own examples that refute your original assertion?

[AtW]

How can I argue when you provide your very own examples that refute your original assertion?

Your arguement is that technical measures would solve the problem, where as mine is that solution is not technical here. You mentioned global police there, but it seemed to me your "prevention of IP spoofing" had bigger weight in your arguement.

I will settle for you just agreeing with my point of view.

[TimberWolf]

Your arguement is that technical measures would solve the problem, where as mine is that solution is not technical here. You mentioned global police there, but it seemed to me your "prevention of IP spoofing" had bigger weight in your arguement.

I will settle for you just agreeing with my point of view.

No, fair play, it seems you are right and I was wrong. It’s more difficult to spoof IP address for the purposes of sending SPAM than I originally thought. Being able to authenticate IP addresses may be irrelevant since most Internet protocols require some form of handshaking, i.e. information sent back to the attacker to work, SMTP included.

[TheFaQQer]

I was reading something yesterday about some interesting little bits included in the latest anti-porn law going through at the moment.

Anyone looking at / downloading / partaking in BDSM or similar will now be a criminal and can be jailed for a few years.

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