Each day in the office I receive up to fifty or sixty SPAM messages, the majority of which are clearly based upon scans of my internet traffic to determine my interests. These unwanted messages are duplicated into each of my two personal mail boxes. I just deleted 70 SPAM messages from one mail box alone and I guess that half of the computer users in Nigeria have already been in touch with me.
I know that the internet has to be paid for in some way, but advertising based on spying and intrusions has become ridiculous. E-mail is such a mess these days that it is useless for normal communications and I have reverted to using Fax for essential messaging at the office.
Unless something is done about SPAM, and intrusions that use legal services like cookies in an unacceptable way, the internet is in danger of grinding to a halt. I for one would be willing to pay for a secured internet message transmission service incorporating uncrackable code to make it immune to Spamming.
Then of course there's the illegal stuff - in the past forty five minutes BlackIce blocked no less than three SQL_SSRP_StackBo DNS probes and another dozen less threatening probes from strange computers.
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