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[Stilgherrian]

On 31/08/2008, at 8:53 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> I am suitably impressed. ID theft, credit card faud and zombisation
> in one hit. No wonder I keep getting these. The pool of potential
> victims out here must be v-a-s-t.
>
> <rant type=minor>
>
> One wonders what it would take to get law enforcement to honeypot
> exploits like this and then follow the trail to the source. It must
> be doable. There will be an IP address/routing trail as well as a
> credit card merchant trail.

This does happen. However...

The IP trail is to one of many, many zombie machines, which in turn  
are controlled by other zombie machines, which in turn... and the  
trail will eventually go through a country which is "less than helpful".

The credit card trail goes, at the first step, back to some muggins  
who's signed up to do "UPS refund processing" at home, and who's doing  
that because they answered an ad posted on a telegraph pole or...  
signed up via spam.



> One little piece is missing: the will to do so. Until it becomes a
> serious issue (as if it isn't already!) and is raised to a political
> level, I doubt little if anything will be done about it.

Well, the will and the budget.


> How many virus writers have been prosecuted in the past ten years?
> How about copyright thieves?
> The techniques of tracking down both are similar and available to
> the cops.
>
> Now ask yourself in whose interest is it to catch the former?
> How about the latter?
>
> Finally, who funds the police in either case? We do. We are actually
> paying corporate welfare to do the dirty work of the media moguls
> in tracking down copyright violators. But seemingly not so when it
> comes to attacks on consumers.
>
> </rant>

Yes, but this rant is spot on.

Stil


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