Bill Gates gives SPAM 2 more years
Personalities, Security News November 22nd, 2004
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Bill Gates gives SPAM 2 more years
Perhaps the most spammed man on planet earth, Bill Gates told media that SPAM could be history within two more years. He was in Madrid on a visit and told this to a forum organized by Spanish daily El Mundo.
Bill Gates came into news about SPAM when Steve Ballmer in a light conversation told media that Gates get around 4 million mails on a daily basis. And as expected most of it is SPAM which is filtered out by a department specially designated for the job.
Gates told the forum that many new technologies are emerging which would help bring SPAM under control. Microsoft is working in the field with their SenderID technology while rivals Yahoo! are already out with DomainKeys, which is also being used by Google’s GMail.
And to add to this, Governments are making laws stricter against spammers. All these efforts would help in making internet safe and secure, as it becomes an integral part of our daily lives.
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Imagine if Bill had said the same thing about computer viruses ten years ago. I think I recall him saying that. Sorry, folks, the spam problem is not going away any time soon.
SenderID and DomainKeys merely provide a way to validate that a sender is sending from the correct server for a particular domain. Spammers account for 95% of SenderID users worldwide — so it’s not possible to use SenderID to distinguish a spammer from a legitimate sender.
What these technologies do make possible is an end to false positives from bulk senders such as Microsoft, because they allow for messages from these important domains to be trusted.
Alas, even if everyone switched to a completely whitelist-based model, we would still get spam. We’d get it from our friends’ compromised PCs.
The real solution to spam is to kill all the spammers. But that requires a police state. So as long as we’re living in a free world, spam will continue to be a problem.
its a tough call. popups have disappeared because of browser tools, but websites would start using css based layer popups to overcome that. same thing would happen with spammers. they would evolve. i agree, the solution is not that easy…
Bill should call up Frontbridge technologies and buy them out. My company has been using them for 3 years now as a managed filtering system. We have not had any fales positives in three years and we get no spam at all. Our daily load of emails averages in the millions.