Charles T Booher, 44, was arrested on 20 November for threatening to torture and kill employees of an unnamed Canadian company that he believed was responsible for sending him an unrelenting stream of email featuring penis enlargement adverts.
In an unrelated incident, two weblogs, known for their satirical pranks, launched a sustained DDoS attack against the US spam firm Customerblast.com. The weblogs were soon hit by massive retaliatory DDoS attacks, and the weblogs retaliated I turn with a second wave of attacks. One of the participants in the scrap says he was cut off by his ISP and now faces ‘legal action’.
These attacks on spammers are clearly illegal, but they demonstrate that the growing problem of spam is pushing people to breaking point, and beyond. Effective legal control is required.