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US Military Uses Spam, Internet Explorer
chundo writes "CNN reports that the United States government has been secretly encouraging the defection of senior Iraqi officials via email. Iraq is responding by shutting down some of their internet gateways to prevent these emails from getting through, forcing the US to find alternate means to deliver the message. Maybe they should have enlisted this guy - emails from him keep showing up in my inbox no matter what I do." This story about the growing military network bandwidth crunch shows the U.S. military trying hard to get every soldier online, all the time.
Not 72 virgins I hope.
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To: saddam@iraq.com
Subj: Hot Iraqi Women in your Email!
You have credit problms? Is you penis to small? Well you hav win $1,000,00 million dollars! Click here to claim you prize mony and send a nuke your way.
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
So with all the spam, now the Iraqui leaders get a chance to help all those Nigerians get money out of the country. I bet they also have 12 inch penises, have overcome hairloss, and have lost 10 pounds just this past week. What are we trying to do...create a race of wealthy, well hung, rich guys to fight against?
want to add 3-5 cm to your penis length? defect now to obtain the super male enhancing pills
I have inherited 5milion dollars and we can split it, all is needed is the transfer fee and for you to defect... profit!
Mr. IRAQI PERSON,
You MAY be SURPRISED to receive this, but THE OFFICE GIRL said that you were a most TRUSTWORTHY PERSON. I beg you Forgive me for contacting you without prior contacting your office, but I am looking for a WORTHY business PARTNER to donate the sum of USD 124.5 million dollars. I am the son of the FORMER president of the U.S.A GEORGE BUSH who initiated a MILITARY CAMPAIGN in 1991. During this campaign, we discovered HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of DOLLARS stolen from THE REBELS. OUR economy is IN TROUBLE and we MUST get this MONEY overseas before the people DISCOVER it. We will gladly be willing to pay you the SUM of 26 MILLION DOLLARS for ASSISTING US. I pray to GOD that you will HELP US get this MONEY out of the country. ALL we need FROM you is your PASSPORT and SIGNATURE which you can fax to me or my colleauges to initiate the transfer of the MILLIONS of dollars. I remain your most humble SERVANT, and PRAY that you will be OUR SAVIOR.
SINCERELY,
MR. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
There is no sig, there is only Zuul.
Iraq has no diplomatic relations with Nigeria.
"shows the U.S. military trying hard to get every soldier online, all the time."
Do they really need to be playing CounterStrike in the gulf *war*?
It's easy, all they have to do is click on the "Please remove my name from your mailing list" link!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
What I think really happened was a 12 year old kid hacked the Pentagon computers again and wanted to use all that technology to make some money, BUT at the same time, be patriotic. So what'd he do? Spam. He's getting 5 cents a click on the "Defect to USA" and "Fuck Saddam" pages AND he's dicking with Iraq.
(FwooshSpinSpinSpinGargle) -- the sound of my karma as I click the Submit button)
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Let's hope they don't leave their laptops logged in at starbucks so some kid could play with it.
"This story about the growing military network bandwidth crunch..."
So slashdoting their servers earlier just might not have been such a good idea...
what the hell else will keep out there in trenches? ask any ww2 vet, and he'll tell ya. spam was a major part of the lend/lease program, so you brits should know about that too.
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"All you need is Internet Explorer," says Doug Barton, the director of technology for Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, based in Gaithersburg, Md.
I think it is wrong because they are promoting micrsoft software and x86 hardware as if it was the only alternative out there like many places do, ugh.. Linux R0x0rZ, now give me Karma!
So if there are Axes of Evil then where is the Origin?
To: centralcommand@us.mil
From: WhiskeyBravo49@iraq.us.mil
Subject: Request Instructions
Priority: High^H^H^H^HCritic^H^H^H^H^HANSWER ME NOW DAMNIT!
We're being shot at. Please advise. Thanks.
Lt. James Parker, USAF
555-555-5555 x555 (M-F 8a-5pm)
Of course, Central Command probably just has an autoreply set up.
Thank you for contacting Central Command. We are experiencing a higher than normal email volume due to the war in Iraq. Please be patient while we get to your email in the order that it was received. Your comments and questions are important to use, and thank you for risking your life for the USA.
Now Iraq is going to strike back with suicide email bombers.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I personally would love to see this guy's response to a message from the US government.
(Someone has waaaaay too much time on their hands)
since some major research companeis are rating MSIE as unsecure why is the US military using this broswer to depend on its soldiers in launching military strike missions?
Imagine this:
Hacker in Iraq reads acccess hacking information breeding grounds like l)pht.cm, 2600.com and etc than uses flasw in MSIE to prevent a timed US military strike on Iraq..
Scary isn't it?
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Am I the only one who finds it vaguely disturbing to suddenly consider that there is a large number of people who are both sysadmins and Marines?
BOFH, indeed.
They watch a lot of "Nick at Nite".
mstyne: real name, no gimmicks
If I'm an Iraqi Elite Guard (or whatever they're called) and I discover that the recipient of a "Defect now!" email is sending or has sent an encrypted message back to any contact point mentioned in the spam, I can decrypt the message using relatively unsophisticated technology - an old AT power supply for example.
I'd have to swing the power supply at the potential defector's left knee at most 8 or 9 times before the plaintext was recovered (okay, perhaps 11 or 12 times if a 4096-bit encryption key has been used). Now that I think of it, there's really no need to recover the plaintext at all once I discover any encrypted message being sent back to a "Defect Now!" spam. It's the same as if I had quantum decryption technology. Are you trying to export quantum encryption technology to Iraq?!?
I can just imagine how that will turn out...
Private: Sarge! We're pinned down by Jerry's on all sides. We're almost out of ammo. We have no medical kits and Private Wilkins is bleeding to death. What do we do!?!
Sarge: We're pulling out. Private Booths, send an instant message to HQ asking for a chopper liftout.
Private: Uhhh, I can't do that Sarge. The PDA is jammed up with these messages for enlarging your penis.
Sarge: Enlarged penis, you say? Must be a new battle technique. Right, men! Everybody flop out your penis and enlarge them. That'll get the Jerry's running scared.
Your shell script will give me twenty.
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