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thought on how to get back at spam
It's common for spammers to send large (albeit highly compressed) images with their spam.
I think it'd be fun to grab the URL of the image, run an application on the desktop that does nothing but download that image again and again, hopefully with multiple threads over night or something. I imagine you can take this 12K image and cost them a few GB with it.
Has it been done before? Any reason it couldn't be done? I realize if spammers catch on they'd have to (and could) build countermeasures, but it'd be fun for a while.
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