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  Russian Denies Authoring "SoBig" Worm
Subject:   Hasn't anyone else caught this obvious lie?
Date:   2004-11-03 14:03:33
From:   rbarreira
The bit where he talks about headers shows that even on the interview he is lying blatantly. If you read the report, they say that Send-safe and sobig's headers are in the same order, which is different from outlook. So, he's lying.


Here's the quote from the "Who wrote sobig" article:

"Although these subtle differences suggest separate source code, the similarities suggest that Send-Safe was the template, and not other mailing programs such as Outlook, Netscape, The Bat!, or AMS.

As these other independent email tools generate their headers with very different ordering, it would seem unlikely that the Sobig author(s) determined the email headers and values independently."


And the quote from the interview:

"But Ibragimov said Send-Safe chose the particular order of headers merely to mimic Outlook Express and to better evade spam filters."


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  • Hasn't anyone else caught this obvious lie?
    2004-11-04 02:57:26  jwenting [Reply | View]

    Ever met a spammer who doesn't lie?

    Maybe SoBig went out of control from a more limited use he'd envisioned and now he tries to distance himself from it.

    That the FBI never contacted him is no surprise. The FBI lacks the resources/expertise to do an in-depth investigation like this and even if they have it they have no authority to act in Russia.

    I think this spammer'd better be careful about entering on his real name the USA or several other countries...