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US Military Uses Spam, Internet Explorer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the diplomacy-through-alternate-means dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Wtf ? by silvaran · · Score: 3, Informative

    "All you need is Internet Explorer," says Doug Barton, the director of technology for Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, based in Gaithersburg, Md.

    The "bandwidth crunch link".

  2. Re:Is the US government stupid? by shyster · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually they're telling them to report to the UN.

    The message includes instructions to the e-mail recipients to contact the United Nations in Iraq if they want to defect.
  3. Re:Islamic Spam by Guppy06 · · Score: 3, Informative

    "RE: Pictures of Alah! Download now!"

    Actually, that one will get you in trouble. You're not supposed to have pictures of holy people/things/etc. For example, nobody is quite sure what Mohammed looked like because the artists of the time weren't allowed to paint his face.