Comments on: Mugu Marauder Spokesperson Takes Aunty to Task http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/mugu-marauder-spokesperson-takes-aunty-to-task Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:14:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: AGuy http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/mugu-marauder-spokesperson-takes-aunty-to-task#comment-157883 AGuy Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:29:10 +0000 /?p=369#comment-157883 This is crazy! I completely agree with Vader! What's wrong with shutting down criminal's websites?! Do you have any idea how much money these people take from the US everyday? Auntie isn't the only one with a law degree, and this kind of case would never go to court. AA419 isn't taking money out of innocent third parties - they are depriving scammers of their resources to destroy others! \ This is crazy! I completely agree with Vader! What’s wrong with shutting down criminal’s websites?! Do you have any idea how much money these people take from the US everyday? Auntie isn’t the only one with a law degree, and this kind of case would never go to court. AA419 isn’t taking money out of innocent third parties - they are depriving scammers of their resources to destroy others! \

]]> By: mugufucker http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/mugu-marauder-spokesperson-takes-aunty-to-task#comment-1054 mugufucker Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:40:53 +0000 /?p=369#comment-1054 Lawyers shouldn't bother writing about tech stuff at all... Anyone remember what peaceful place the internet was in the very early 90's? Lawyers shouldn’t bother writing about tech stuff at all… Anyone remember what peaceful place the internet was in the very early 90’s?

]]> By: Lord Vader http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/mugu-marauder-spokesperson-takes-aunty-to-task#comment-1037 Lord Vader Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:28:50 +0000 /?p=369#comment-1037 Quote: "It would be far better to assist in educating people so they can protect themselves instead against all such scams. Isn’t there a saying “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a ……." I spend hours a day answering emails from people asking me if the "You won the lottery!" mail or the mail telling them that some dictator needs their help to get his loot out of the country is for real. I am a co-admin of 419legal.org which is indeed a project of the SAPS and linked to directly from their own homepage. If you would stop, think and read, you´d make more educated comments. Please go to 419legal.org and see for yourself what we indeed do to educate people. I think most of you people are simply not aware of the magnitude of this problem. LV Quote: “It would be far better to assist in educating people so they can protect themselves instead against all such scams. Isn’t there a saying “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a …….”

I spend hours a day answering emails from people asking me if the “You won the lottery!” mail or the mail telling them that some dictator needs their help to get his loot out of the country is for real. I am a co-admin of 419legal.org which is indeed a project of the SAPS and linked to directly from their own homepage. If you would stop, think and read, you´d make more educated comments. Please go to 419legal.org and see for yourself what we indeed do to educate people. I think most of you people are simply not aware of the magnitude of this problem.

LV

]]> By: ZacOz http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/mugu-marauder-spokesperson-takes-aunty-to-task#comment-1035 ZacOz Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:41:29 +0000 /?p=369#comment-1035 The "Artists..." seem to think that the end justifies the means. Seems they are just chasing the 419er's all over the internet from IP to IP everytime they move. It would be far better to assist in educating people so they can protect themselves instead against all such scams. Isn't there a saying "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a ......." You can keep your "solution" Lord Vader. To my mind this sort of activity isn't something a police force would involve themselves in, so I'd be more suspicious of the installation being spyware/trojan in disguise. As described, there appears no genuine reason to require an installation on your system - rather the provision of instructions in a text file should be all that is required. Call me paranoid, moral, ethical, whatever..... The “Artists…” seem to think that the end justifies the means. Seems they are just chasing the 419er’s all over the internet from IP to IP everytime they move. It would be far better to assist in educating people so they can protect themselves instead against all such scams. Isn’t there a saying “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a …….”

You can keep your “solution” Lord Vader. To my mind this sort of activity isn’t something a police force would involve themselves in, so I’d be more suspicious of the installation being spyware/trojan in disguise. As described, there appears no genuine reason to require an installation on your system - rather the provision of instructions in a text file should be all that is required.

Call me paranoid, moral, ethical, whatever…..

]]> By: Hammerz http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/mugu-marauder-spokesperson-takes-aunty-to-task#comment-1027 Hammerz Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:45:14 +0000 /?p=369#comment-1027 Right on, Aunty! Legal issues aside--and I agree with you about those--it seems to me that, if very many people get sucked into this, there is a real possibility that it's going to eat up some pretty significant internet bandwidth. THAT'S not a good thing, either. Right on, Aunty! Legal issues aside–and I agree with you about those–it seems to me that, if very many people get sucked into this, there is a real possibility that it’s going to eat up some pretty significant internet bandwidth. THAT’S not a good thing, either.

]]> By: Kelson http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/mugu-marauder-spokesperson-takes-aunty-to-task#comment-1024 Kelson Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:23:27 +0000 /?p=369#comment-1024 Regardless of its effectiveness or ethics, a DDOS is still illegal (at least in the US), and opens people up to serious criminal charges. The same issues apply here that sparked such controversy over over Lycos' screensaver a few months back. It would have been irresponsable for Aunty (who, if I recall correctly, is a lawyer---making it <em>professionally</em> irresponsible as well) to encourage people participate in something illegal. Regardless of its effectiveness or ethics, a DDOS is still illegal (at least in the US), and opens people up to serious criminal charges. The same issues apply here that sparked such controversy over over Lycos’ screensaver a few months back.

It would have been irresponsable for Aunty (who, if I recall correctly, is a lawyer—making it professionally irresponsible as well) to encourage people participate in something illegal.

]]> By: Mugu Fucker http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/mugu-marauder-spokesperson-takes-aunty-to-task#comment-1023 Mugu Fucker Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:53:43 +0000 /?p=369#comment-1023 So, Aunty, what then are you doing to protect people against 419 fraud? Seems as if you haven't been to effective in protecting people, hm? Instead the problem is growing worse with each day. Why don't you just let other people at least alternative ways of dealing with it? It may turn out that their way is perhaps a little more effective than all those warnings? So, Aunty, what then are you doing to protect people against 419 fraud? Seems as if you haven’t been to effective in protecting people, hm? Instead the problem is growing worse with each day. Why don’t you just let other people at least alternative ways of dealing with it? It may turn out that their way is perhaps a little more effective than all those warnings?

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