Spam: September 2008 Archives
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091201211.html?hpid=topnews
In 2004 Jeremy Jaynes was convicted under Virginia's Anti-Spam law for sending 10 million spam emails through AOL servers located in Virginia.
Virginia's Supreme Court has overturned that conviction and struck down the Anti-spam law.
"The court unanimously agreed with Jeremy Jaynes' argument that the law violates the free-speech protections of the First Amendment because it does not just restrict commercial e-mails."
The weak Federal CAN-SPAM law that has done nothing to stop spam remains in effect.
The MessageLabs Intelligence report for August 2008 reports that spammers are using links to Flash/Shockwave files hosted on Picasa (a Google web album service). The Flash then redirects the user to the spammers site.
