The War On Spam

Here's a political plank for the Democrats to adopt: instead of a pointless and expensive war on drugs and a fruitless and expensive war on illegal immigrants, let's have a war on spammers:

[from Guardian Unlimited Business Spam closes web security firm]

A popular email security company said it would cease trading after being victimised by one of the world's biggest spammers. The Israeli-based firm Blue Security said it could no longer continue to operate in the face of an escalating threat to the internet from a malicious Russian spammer known only as PharmaMaster.

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Eran Reshef, the founder of Blue, said his company, which recently drew $4.8m (£2.5m) in funding and counts several senior industry figures as directors, was simply unable to become trapped in a war against a criminal group. "This is something that's really got to be left to governments to decide. To fight the spammers you really need to spend $100m."

Let's make the world safe from spammers. Wake up, Howard Dean!