MySpace won their case!

[silentsummit]

Latest Update: Feb 02, 2007 11:30am

new message and new friend indicators are wacky! and we are fixing it, so you dont need to write me and tell me that they're misfiring.. thx!

In other news, we filed our first spamming / phishing case (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=cms.goto&_i=12538e5b-068a-46de-8ce0-4d83a13391a5&_u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.mercurynews.com%2fmld%2fmercur ynews%2fnews%2flocal%2fstates%2fcalifornia%2fnorth ern_california%2f16520570.htm) and won a case (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=cms.goto&_i=12538e5b-068a-46de-8ce0-4d83a13391a5&_u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scmagazine.com.au%2fnews%2f452 62%2cmyspace-superworm-creator-sentenced-to-probation-community-service.aspx) against the guy who spread the sammy virus last year. hopefully this will discourage people from ruining myspace for everyone. More news soon.
(courtesy of myspace.com)
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I guess this means that myspace one that case against those people that they were sueing. yay!

[rob]

that has nothing to do with the 'people that they were sueing'.. its completely different.

[silentsummit]

no. they sued those people. I wasnt talking about the advertising agencies.

[chasebadkids]

poor samy.

haha

[silentsummit]

Yeah, that's what im saying. Here is the full story----

The man responsible for unleashing what is believed to be the first self-propagating cross-site scripting worm has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court to charges stemming from his most infamous hacking.

Samy Kamkar, who was 19 when he unleashed the attack on MySpace.com in October 2005, was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to perform 90 days of community service, according to a MySpace statement released Wednesday.

Kamkar also must pay an undisclosed amount of restitution to MySpace, and he is banned from accessing the internet for personal reasons for an unknown amount of time, according to the statement.

Kamkar, using a programming technique known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML(AJAX) that permitted browsers to execute malicious code, was able to circumvent MySpace’s strong JavaScript filters.

The infection spread like wildfire, adding one million "friends" to Kamkar’s profile within several hours, in addition to placing the string "but most of all, Samy is my hero" on each of his victims’ profiles.

MySpace filed a lawsuit against Kamkar, one of a slew of civil actions the company is taking against criminals who exploit the site’s tens of millions of users.

"MySpace is committed to protecting our community from any abusive misuse of the site," the company said in the statement.

Kamkar could not be reached for comment today.

Click here to email reporter Dan Kaplan.

----http://www.scmagazine.com.au/news/45262,myspace-superworm-creator-sentenced-to-probation-community-service.aspx

[Sergio]

I'm pretty sick of the spam lately, I hope they continue to win.

[Cyclops]

It's bloody ironic but MySpace came ito existence from a group of people who made their money from !!!!! Spamming !!!!. Forget about Tom, he is just the public face, not the person behind MySpace at all.

The history of MySpace is really interesting. I will post the details later.

[not2late]

It's bloody ironic but MySpace came ito existence from a group of people who made their money from !!!!! Spamming !!!!. Forget about Tom, he is just the public face, not the person behind MySpace at all.

The history of MySpace is really interesting. I will post the details later.


http://valleywag.com/tech/myspace/what-news-corp-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-myspace-condensed-edition-199668.php

[Ad disengaged]

Sammy didn't deserve to be punnished at all

not like he commited a crime or caused any lasting damage to myspace. The problem was easily fixed.

[deep]

what sammy did was against myspace's terms which he agreed he wouldnt do when he signed up so now he gets punished for not living up to his promise.

there are lots of users that are doing this but in kinda lesser way, wut he did was kinda like a attack on myspace.

im sure that no one wants their website to be hacked!

[misterproline]

He got off easy honestly - at least he isn't incarcerated.

[minnseoelite]

Personally I am glad and wish that everyone that posted dozens of myspace bulletins everyday advertising the same old site would get both their IP addresses and website URLs banned. I have nothing against posting a bulletin now and then when your site has an update to announce but those people that post dozens of bulletins a day trying to advertise their site should be perminantly banned from Myspace. Spam is the lazy man/womans way of having to do actual work.

[rize]

well thats good :)