In a significant victory in the War on Spam, Korean police have nabbed two programmers—one 21 and the other 27—wanted for sending out some 1.6 billion spam mails between September and December of last year. They are also accused of selling the personal information collected during their spam campaigns to debt companies for some 100 million won. The editorial staff of the Marmot’s Hole wishes them a very unpleasant time in prison.
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This is the BEST news I’ve heard all day! I hate those spamming bastards!
AWESOME!
Nice. I wonder if spammers get better or worse treatment than child molesters these days.
Try explaining to cell mate Joe “Never made it ouf of grammar school” Kim what spamming is… and that it’s not related to food.
Spamming is the one crime for which I support sharia law: amputation of both hands.
Those two guys are not the real players in Korea. The real players who enable spam syndicates work inside certain major internet organizations here in Korea like Kornet and even with the guys who run the backbone out of Korea, thus they will not be touched without some real effort.
How is spamming different from the stores, businesses, and corporations that fill our mail boxes and newspapers with fliers? Well, fliers produce pollution and contribute to deforestation. For most people, spamming is an annoyance, but only a minor one. What’s ironic about their arrest is that the simple reason spamming is a crime is that it costs money to big business, the same guys who keep annoying us with junk mail and advertisement.