Spam: The Untold Story – I bet you had no idea it was so big! Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Agent Shane O’Gorman
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Here is an interesting article I saw the other day.
This is the end of my 3 part series on spam.
You can read the first and second parts.
Atrivo ISP shutdown sends ripples through the spam deluge
By Joel Hruska | Published: October 06, 2008 – 09:20PM CT
When security researchers and network professionals announced that they had successfully forced the ISP Atrivo (aka Intercage) offline last month, the celebration seemed short-lived. Atrivo’s web site was back online under UnitedLayer within only a few days, and the consensus from some corners (including certain readers) was that the entire drive to take Atrivo offline was nothing more than an exercise in futility. Whack off the head of a hydra, after all, and it grows back two (unless you’ve got a torch handy). In this case, the ire of the security industry burned bright enough to serve that purpose; UnitedLayer terminated the company on September 25. As of this writing, Atrivo remains offline.
Did it matter? MessageLabs has evidence (PDF) that it did, though possibly only in the short term. When Atrivo fell offline on September 21, botnet activity across the ‘Net dropped significantly. They begin to recover immediately, suggesting that the benefits are short-lived indeed, but dropped again (though not nearly as much) when Atrivo was finally kicked offline for good.
I highly suggest reading the rest of the article.
I had no idea that the amount of traffic from spam was so huge. I also had no idea that there was such a large amount filtered before it even hits your inbox! That is just crazy that 90% is filtered before it hits and yet so much still comes through. Imagine the cost your isp pays by having to have so much traffic sent over their networks. Too bad that I firmly believe even if there was no spam the cost to the end user would still remain the same. I don’t see corporations ending their monopolies any time soon, nor do I see them lowering the cost to us if they did reduce spam. Still it is nice to see someone is doing something about all this!
