A while ago I found myself on the mailing list of a boiler room spammer. Every few days I'd get an advertisement claiming enormous returns on my investment if I signed up with their company. Eventually I responded by calling the number in the email. I told the person who answered that as a major Hollywood producer I had a lot of money but not a ( Read more... )

In the last 24 hours or so, matrushkaka and I have been unable to send mail because various organizations think we're infected with malware. We are not, and neither are the people who share our network to the best of our knowlege ( Read more... )

After reading annoying spammers with pf and spamd I'd *really* like to see someone add these features to WRT54G firmware. It wouldn't really work if I installed a fake open relay tarpit on my laptop, which sits behind the NAT firewall and is frequently shut down or away entirely, but I'd love to be able to trap and annoy spammers with the same low ( Read more... )