[Sks-devel] Dump

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Jens Leinenbach wrote:

> If I were a black hat, I would set up my own SKS server instead of
> downloading a dump again and again. ;)

> > ready access to a frequently updated corpus is a win -- If I were a
> > black-hat, I'd be building a new product already to leverage those
> > wholesale updates

Indeed, and there is clearly a Cost / Benefit analysis to 
perform here; it makes sense to me that a blackhat with 
infinite resources would engineer a entire solution set.  But 
that is not what I saw as to the 'usual spammers -- they 
looked for the casual 'easy and low hanging fruit' to exploit 
first

The world is not a perfect place, but filled with shades of 
gray.  But my question is:
        Why facilitate casual exploitation?

-- Russ herrold