Given the % of traffic that is SPAM, which translates into direct $, I'm not sure you can say it's been "won" or that the end users aren't' feeling pain. They just feel it in their wallets, as opposed to their inboxes.
I know, it's shameless, but I have to feed my kids, and I'm not lying: using ThreatSTOP on the firewall turns the asymmetric advantage the bot-using spammer has in favor of the defender, and saves bandwidth and network upgrade costs. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Dan Kaminsky > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 9:16 PM > To: Drsolly > Cc: [email protected]; Rich Kulawiec > Subject: Re: [funsec] 95% of User Generated Content is spam or > malicious > > My sense is that SPAM filtering is ghettoizing, i.e. there's a very > small community of extraordinarily miserable people whose job it now > is to deal with SPAM for the rest of their users. They've been so > successful, even at 98%, that now users have NO tolerance for SPAM. > In other words, the SPAM war appears to be won, nobody seems to know > it's still being fought. > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Drsolly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, I'm currently seeing about 98% spam. At what percentage does > email > > become useless? > > > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Robert Portvliet wrote: > > > >> It's sad that we are unable to even make a dent in solving this > problem. > >> Added together, the bandwidth & capacity wasted by all this junk > must be > >> staggering. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 05:57:45PM -0500, Robert Portvliet wrote: > >> > > According the Websense Security Labs 'state of Internet security > report' > >> > 95% > >> > > of User Generated Content is spam or malicious & 85% of all > email is > >> > spam. > >> > > >> > 85% is way too low. Plausible numbers are in the 96-98% range. > >> > > >> > ---Rsk > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > >> > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > >> > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > >> > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
