Do Something But We Think You'll Screw Up Anyway
These statements, taken from an article from CNN.COM, show people’s feelings on spam, computer viruses, phishing and other nasty things arriving in your inbox.
- "71 percent of people believe Congress needs to pass new laws to keep the Internet safe"
- "They don't have a lot of confidence that Congress will do the right thing"
Actually both statements are true and were proved in the last 18 months by CAN-SPAM and its aftermath. Congress did something (fulfilling the desires of the 71%) but spam has not diminished (see the second CNN snippet again).
The old BR549 song almost seems to be a Congressional Motto at times… “Sometimes you gotta do something even if it’s wrong”.
Just as morality cannot be legislated, Congressmen passing “feel-good”, “see-we-care” laws have zero effect on folks sitting in front of their spamming / phishing / zombie producing computers in far away lands.
As a firm believer in a layered protection approach to email, I know that all the legalese will never match good email filtering at all levels from ISP, through mail servers to our own inboxes.
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