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Re:Spam from an Android botnet by Zenst on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @12:11AM (#4197553)
Well it's not new and it won't be the last. But when the spam potentualy means extra income from datausage for the mobile telco's I do wonder how helpful they will be in stamping this out. I know email can be forged and the aspect that there is a bot running on a mobile phone telling everybody its a android is something that don't prove it came from a android phone - could be a iPhone for what we know. Without the bot/spyware/eveil program being pointed at and caught in the act with wifi sniffers then there is no evidence that is tangable. You can send emails out that look like they come from a iPhone69 in the headers, don't mean that a iPhone69 exists.

But if people install no vetted application then they will get unvetted results.

Now if only the goverments realy stamped hard on SPAM, maybe if the music industry had a vested interest then it would soon get stamped out. Its a fine revenue that goverments could tap into and the public realy wont be complaining for once. Please goverments - go get hard on SPAM and levy huge fines and make us all happier.

Re:Spam from an Android botnet by rst on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @09:31AM (#4199339)
It depends what else the phones are being used for. If they are regularly pulling down audio data for the web, or even fat, non-mobile-ized web pages, on a regular basis, then the incremental bump from a few dozen spam emails a day might be hard to notice...