Where'd All That Spam Come From?

Presented at The Fifth HOPE (2004), July 9, 2004, 11 a.m. (60 minutes)

A study of the mechanisms spammers use to flood your mailbox along with what some of the work and research of SpamCrunchers have uncovered. Topics of this talk will include spam bots, spam trojans, some of the sneaky methods spammers use, how they get around filters, why none of this stuff really works anyway, and what you can do to significantly cut down on spam.

Presenters:

• John Draper
  An original member of the now famous Homebrew Computer Club where he designed his own computers and helped create the "blue box" tone generator, John Draper (aka Captain Crunch) has over 30 years of programming and security expertise. One of the first security pioneers, John developed his interest while learning how to penetrate phone networks. He became the 13th employee of Apple Computers, designing telephone interface boards and developing both hardware and software for the Apple II. A cofounder of ShopIP, John now performs security audits and is an architect of the CrunchBox firewall/IPS system. He also does database, Python, and secure GUI programming for SpamCruncher and CrunchBox.

Links:

• http://v.hope.net/hoop/5hope_speakers.khtml#panel067
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Fifth HOPE (2004)/The Fifth HOPE (2004) - Where d All That Spam Come From.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPeK8o327Y8

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