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    Inside the SPAM Cartel: By Spammer-X
    Inside the SPAM Cartel: By Spammer-X
    Inside the SPAM Cartel: By Spammer-X
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    Inside the SPAM Cartel: By Spammer-X

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    Authored by a former spammer, Inside the SPAM Cartel is a methodical, technically explicit expose of the inner workings of the SPAM economy. Readers will be shocked by the sophistication and sheer size of this underworld.

    From the author: "You may hate spam and think all spammers are evil, but listen to my story and see why I do this and more importantly, HOW."

    For most people, the term "SPAM" conjures up the image of hundreds of annoying, and at times offensive, e-mails flooding their inbox every week. But for a few, SPAM is a way of life that delivers an adrenaline rush fueled by cash, danger, retribution, porn and the avoidance of local, federal, and international law enforcement agencies. Inside the SPAM Cartel offer readers a never-before seen view inside this dark sub-economy. You'll meet the characters that control the flow of money as well as the hackers and programmers committed to keeping the enterprise up and running. You may disagree with their objectives, but you can't help but to marvel at their ingenuity and resourcefulness in defeating spam filters, avoiding being identified, and staying one step ahead of the law.

    • Spam makes up now 64% of all email sent and it is said to be the most annoying part of being online.
    • You'll meet the characters that control the flow of money as well as the hackers and programmers committed to keeping the enterprise up and running.
    • Authored by a former spammer, this is a methodical, technically explicit expose of the innerworkings of the SPAM economy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateNov 13, 2004
    ISBN9780080478500
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      Although Syngress apparently employed a Technical Editor (Jeffrey Posluns) and a Copy Editor (Judy Eby) in preparing this book, it's riddled with both technical and grammatical errors. For experienced email server administrators, Inside the Spam Cartel is an almost complete waste of time. Novices would learn a great deal from this book, but much of what they learned would be wrong. (For example, on p. 183 the author claims that a public key allows one to decrypt a message encrypted using PGP. Or take this discussion of BGP, from p. 64: "Each BGP router is given an Autonomous System (AS) number and each AS is unique and directly identifies the router by name.") [2005-10-15]

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