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Meet Verizon, King of ISP Spammers

Larry Seltzer writes on eWeek:

The biggest spammer in the world is a huge, imposing presence in the Internet, known for mercilessly wiping out opposition. China? Russia? No, you guessed it: It's Verizon.

The numbers come from Trend Micro, one of the biggest security companies in the world. I've known Dave Rand, chief technology officer of Trend Micro Internet Content Security, for years. He is a pioneer of much basic software for e-mail and other computing essentials, and a founder of MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) with Paul Vixie, another computing pioneer. The MAPS RBL, the blacklist with perhaps the most clout on the Internet, is now also with Trend Micro. I sat down to lunch with Dave on June 20.

posted by Fergie @ 6/22/2007 05:34:00 AM