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They obviously don't have CIA budget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel or they would already be inside.

Thankfully the NSA is limited to signals intelligence. Otherwise the ATF would have a room at AT&T. http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/ATT_tech_outs_NSA_spy_room.shtml ;-)

How does this relate to such programs as NSAs Echelon and wholescale tapping of fiberlinks in major switching centers such as at AT&T. Incidentally most of the current effort in surveillance goes on industrial espionage and the monitoring of 'activists', ie people who speak out against the government.

http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/ATT_tech_outs_NSA_spy_room.asp
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LDk6jxcSDlQ
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I don't see why the government doesn't prosecute the companies that have their products spammed.

One reason is that much of the time the products are fake.

According to a recent [2005] study published in Britain, researchers purchased Viagra from several seemingly reputable Internet sources. They received what looked like branded Viagra, identically packaged like the real product. The sources of the pills were worldwide and included places like Thailand, India and Malta. The content of sildenafil was determined using near infrared microscopy.

Nearly half of the pills contained no active ingredient.

It sounds like some jr highschool kid's idea. What is the military going to do, call up Kim Jong-il and say "ke ke ke PW0n3gE! How you liek the intrnetz n0w? bizatch."? If someone is "attacking" us via the internet, there is a much easier solution: block their traffic, null route their netblock, or even just "drop anchor" on their cable.

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The EFF has already filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T for aiding the government in this illegal activity, and the Bush administration has already used it's "powers" to begin the "cover-up."

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

Um, care to back that up?

Um, yeah.. what they said :)

http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/Mozilla_makin g_tens_of_millions_of_dollars_from_Firefox.asp

A valid concern with Microsoft's LiveDrive, but at least with the GDrive we wouldn't have to assume Google would hand such information over. Disturbing to think of Abdul's private family vacation snapshots being bored over in the hunt for Terrorist Activities (TM), but if history's anything to go by, the US government would have to do some work to prove that Weapons of Mass Destruction (R) were being stored in digital form. Maybe now that Google has set the path, other companies (even Microsoft) will think twice before handing over data lest they should end up with publicity like this.

Correct link:

http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/ATT_tech_outs _NSA_spy_room.asp

Sorry!

No news here. Just a long, opportunistic and empty article. You can learn a lot more reading Mark Klein's full statement. He is the retired AT&T employee is colaborating with EFF in the lawsuit.

http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/ATT_tech_outs _NSA_spy_room.asp/

TFA links to an earlier article:

EFF alleges that AT&T, in addition to allowing the NSA direct access to the phone and Internet communications passing over its network, has given the government unfettered access to its over 312 terabyte "Hawkeye" database, detailing nearly every telephone communication on AT&T's domestic network since 2001

Phones aren't nearly as safe as you think.

I believe he is 25 actually
http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/Notorious_spa mmer_Christopher_Rizler_Smith_smacked_down_again.a sp

WTF is this world coming to? Our children turn evil this quick now?

http://www.spamdailynews.com/uploads/rizler_003.jp g

I mean good lord. He amassed that kind of wealth that quickly, is now in jail and was threatening to kill another human being.

So sad...I don't feel bad for him, per se...but it makes me sick...

I could be wrong, but his spamming and his current indictment seem unrelated.

From the article:

"Although Smith allegedly built his pharmacy business from spam-related profits, it doesn't appear that Smith actually sent spam to advertise the pharmacy sites. Witnesses told investigators that he bought ads in magazines and had sales reps field calls at the Burnsville, MN offices of Online Payment Solutions."

And from a previous article on him, it would seem that he spammed stuff different from his pharmacy biz.

The latter seems to be the reason he tried silencing a witness, and it was for something that seems to be unrelated to his spamming biz.

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