July 23, 2008 - 2:59 A.M.
Spam? Yeah, it's that bad
- TAGS:irony, Robert Soloway, spam
- IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation, Internet, Security
From the O RLY? files, spammer-prosecution division, where Judge Marsha Pechman took her time to figure out precisely the right sentence for junk-mail joker Robert Soloway...
"But the Soloway case was an opportunity for the courts to dissuade online criminals from continuing their work, [prosecuting attorney Kathryn] Warma said."
Was it now? An opportunity to dissuade them? To... send a message? And it took an extra-long two and a half days of judicial deliberation to send that message? Damn you, Robert Soloway; you spammed us all so hard you slowed down communications systems not even connected to the Internet. That's nasty. You go to jail now.
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