A BLOW-BY-BLOW account of how one of the world’s most prolific senders of spam email was tracked down and prosecuted had an audience of spam fighters on the edge of their seats last week.
After years developing anti-spam technology and drafting legislation to outlaw spammers, the delegates at MIT’s annual Spam Conference in Boston were overjoyed to see the culprit nailed. “A successful trial with all the time and resources we’re spending on this issue just feels so good,” says Jonathan Zdziarsky, an anti-spam software expert.
Jeremy Jaynes was found guilty last November by a state court in Leesburg, Virginia,…
