Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)

Posted Nov 6, 2025 11:29 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source) by dskoll
Parent article: Debian to require Rust as of May 2026

But then the economic value of the resource (the compute power, or the micro-payment currency value) outweighs the economic benefit of sending the spam. The criminal will just use the stolen resource directly - not send spam.