Anti-spammer fined $60K for using ‘whois’
By Surferbill - Last updated: Friday, January 18, 2008 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment
“David Ritz, the veteran American spam-fighter, has been hit by $60,000 in fines plus lawyers fees after losing a civil suit that accused him of illegal hacking.”
“The complaint alleged that Ritz “hacked” servers owned by Sierra (which describes itself as a specialist web hosting and internet services firm), obtaining confidential internal network configuration data (using a zone transfer, host -l command) and domain name information (using whois) before publishing that data on the net.”
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