Post by jojo on Apr 8, 2009 13:34:52 GMT
Seems that spam now accounts for 97% of all email traffic.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7988579.stm
Alarmingly Microsoft have made this statement:
Now that sounds like saying that, 97% of burglars are getting away with their crimes but we don't need to worry because we have plenty of houses.
Sooner or later, spam will, inevitably, overwhelm the current technology.
But more importantly, some of this stuff is successful.
This is just tolerating crime in my opinion.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7988579.stm
Alarmingly Microsoft have made this statement:
Cliff Evans, head of security and privacy for Microsoft in the UK, told BBC News: "The good news is that the majority of that never hits your inbox although some will get through."
Ed Gibson, chief cyber security advisor at Microsoft, said the rise in spam was due to traditional organised crime figures moving away from exploiting software vulnerabilities and "targeting the weak link that is you and me".
"With higher capacity broadband and better OS (operating systems), and higher power computers it is easier now to send out billions of spams. Three or four years ago the capacity wasn't there."
Ed Gibson, chief cyber security advisor at Microsoft, said the rise in spam was due to traditional organised crime figures moving away from exploiting software vulnerabilities and "targeting the weak link that is you and me".
"With higher capacity broadband and better OS (operating systems), and higher power computers it is easier now to send out billions of spams. Three or four years ago the capacity wasn't there."
Now that sounds like saying that, 97% of burglars are getting away with their crimes but we don't need to worry because we have plenty of houses.
Sooner or later, spam will, inevitably, overwhelm the current technology.
But more importantly, some of this stuff is successful.
This is just tolerating crime in my opinion.
