From: Rob Rypka <rascal1182@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T05:44:30+09:00
Subject: Re: In your opinion....

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On 9/29/05, Justin Collins <collinsj@seattleu.edu> wrote:

> >7) Building SPAM systems to send out zillions of offensive e-mails.
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> Actually, I think Ruby would work quite well for #7........
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>
> uh, not that I uh would you know.
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> -Justin
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>
I just about had the same response (I, um, don't know either). Then I
started thinking...

<devil's advocate>
Wouldn't a goal of spam software be to load it onto someone else's machine
so you don't get caught (and for parallelism)? In order to get the maximum
return on this sort of program, you should target Windows boxes of
non-technical/home users - security is looser, and they probably won't
notice until it's too late (ISP b4|\|n4g3!). But, really, how many of these
machines are going to have Ruby installed? You're better off writing these
in some native Windows scripting thing - the code may be uglier, but it
would at least run...

Now, of course, Ruby would be great as a meta-programming language to
generate variations on these scripts!
</devil's advocate>

--
Rob

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