Imagine a world with no junk email
About a week ago the Washington Post’s “Security Fix” blog posted an article claiming that they had been instrumental in taking down a California based hosting provider, Security Fix suggested that McColo Corp was responsible for around 75% of the spam and junk email sent out to the internet each day;
For the past four months, Security Fix has been gathering data from the security industry about McColo Corp., a San Jose, Calif., based Web hosting service whose client list experts say includes some of the most disreputable cyber-criminal gangs in business today.
On Monday, Security Fix contacted the Internet providers that manage more than 90 percent of the company’s connection to the larger Internet, sending them information about badness at McColo as documented by the security industry.
When I originally read it I remember thinking something along the lines of “blah, blah, blah”, one week later I’m feeling pretty different. My corporate email has a whole set of processes that ensure that I see very little spam in that inbox, my personal email address that I’ve had for the last ten years is a completely different story, it is pretty much over run.
Until a week ago that personal address was receiving around one hundred spam mails a day, yesterday it received just three, at noon today my junk mail folder is still totally empty.
For this brief moment in time my personal inbox is my own again… if only it was permanent.
One can but dream.
