2002-09-05»
drive-by spammingยปHmm. C|Net ZDNet UK is reporting that “millions of mails” are being sent by people who pull up to open wifi networks, and use them to anonymously spam.
Okay, I’m suspicious. Spamming through open networks was always a theoretical possibility (indeed, I remember people referring to drive-by spamming almost as early as wardriving was coined), but I’ve never heard of it happening in the wild. I’ve just left a message with Adrian Wright, the British security expert quoted in the article, to see if he has any concrete cases. I suspect either either he’s pulling the examples out of his imaginary analyst hat, or he’s been misquoted.