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Originally posted by legion
I was just pondering, does the abundance of SPAM shooting across the Internet make it more difficult for hackers to find and intercept "legitimate" traffic?
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Not really. Packet sniffing isn't the way hacks are done any more. Attacks are more methodical, going one-by-one down an IP range, probing for vulnerabilities and installing bots when found, using said bots to send spam, launch other attacks, etc.
Your analogy is more along the lines of "is there less crime when there is bad weather?"