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.

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Re:Is the US government stupid?

[Zemran]

A good book for you to read is "Operation Splinter Factor" which is a true account of the early days of the cold war. The SIS used to send coded messages (content did not matter) to people that we wanted dead and the Russians would kill them for us. There was no need for there to be any understanding of what the message meant as the existance of the message was enough to get the recipient killed.