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How naive can they be ?

So, do the people producing these wonderful ideas actually have some sort of understanding of how the technology works ? I guess not. So some criminal type in Afgulistan hijacks a Web site owned from the U.k. but cited in Holland and uses it to phish and the U.K. police are going to close the site, so what happens when the legitimate U.K. owner wants to get access to put his web site back ? a nice 'Site blocked' message?

Hey, if you go to the bbc web and read their on line safety stuff , they got attacked by a 'bot p.c. from a thai hospital, shut them down! Who cares about some sick thai people ? Who cares that it isn't the people in the hospital doing the scamming?

Would I lose my e-mail (that I pay for) if someone else used the address as a return address for a spam, even if the e-mail did not originate from my machines ? I get batches of these spoofed mail returns, I can see that they do not originate from my machines or e-mail connection or even from the U.K. but the 'Reply to' email field has <garbage> @ my email address in it, so that bounced emails don't get sent back to the spammer that sent them. Can I sue the companies bouncing these e-mails for harressment ?

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