Using throttling and traffic shaping to combat botnet spam

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Ken Simpson describes his research into spammer behaviour and explains how spammers' impatience can be used for spam suppression. During this talk, attendees will learn about spammer economics and spammer behaviour, get an introduction to connection management, and hear how connection management is used in real-world scenarios to drop spam volume.

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