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Federal prosecutors in Seattle received an approving nod from CBS and ABC for their arrest of Robert Soloway, a 27-year-old Internet marketer. "Computer users around the world are rejoicing at his arrest," exclaimed CBS' Bill Whitaker, junking the presumption of innocence. ABC's Jim Avila was more circumspect, attributing the good news to the feds: the arrest "may actually cause e-mail users to notice a specific drop in today's spam count." Avila cited statistics that 75% of all e-mail traffic is unsolicited junk, so-called spam.
CBS' Whitaker tried to explain Soloway's alleged technique: he would take the "computer ID" of a paying client and "tap into a shadowy Web creation called a Botnet--a network of computers hijacked by hackers." Then "using the Botnet like a zombie army, Soloway sent out millions, even billions, of junk mail a day that could never be traced back to him." Microsoft tried and failed to stop Soloway with a civil lawsuit, ABC's Avila recalled. "Now it is counting on jail time."
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