Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the i've-seen-this-before dept.
Zendar writes "idg has an article about how students at the 151-year-old Tufts University were paid as little as $20/month to relay spam from computers in their dorms. Interestingly enough, the students approached the spammers about this scheme and not vice-versa."
You must have failed College Math 101. Dollar amounts are to be clearly be represented in Ramen noodle packets. Therefore, $20 = 160 packets = 160/3 meals per day = 1.8 months of good eatin'.
Dear Mr. Spammer, I wouldn't mind to relay your spam at all! In fact, I would do it with a full satisfaction of doing a valuable service to the community! Please, pretty please, pick (and pay) me to be your relay!
WBR / lastberserker
. . .
[...of course I won't detail on _where_ I would relay your spam, but what's the matter - noone would miss it anyways...]
Thank Heavens for Diagrams!
by
greenhide
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· Score: 5, Funny
I didn't understand the article at all. Then I saw the helpful graphic at the bottom of the article. It clearly showed just how the process worked! Without that picture, I would have been in the dark.
Well , these students must be pretty dumb anyway to do this for a measly $20 with the risk of being banned permanently from the uni network (or even the uni itself) so maybe the spammers ask for bank details (get them because of the amazing credulity of Simon Student), deposit $20 and then sell those details on to some people in Nigeria who always seem to be desperate for somewhere to deposit $20,000,000:) Ahem.
Are they the ones who sell the "world's best knives"?
A friend in college asked me if I'd heard of the world's best knives. I told him no, but I owned the world's cheapest knives, so if they ever broke or went dull, it would cost me nothing to replace them.
Re:Tracked using MAC address
by
Usquebaugh
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· Score: 4, Funny
Oh another name dropper eh.
A more subtle way is that the college you attend in Cambridge has already implemented this. The only problem with this approach is that all the alumni from Cambridge Universtiy think you're trying to associate yourself with their older and more established college.
This just proves that Tuff's has a better business school than Harvards...
-- Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
You know you are old when....
by
gosand
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· Score: 4, Funny
What happened to the good old days when college students sold blood, sperm or surfed the web to earn beer money!
You know you are old when:
You had to work a real job to get money in college
People refer to the "good old days" and in your mind it was yesterday
There was no World Wide Web when you were in college (unless you count FTP, BBSs, and Gopher sites)
Your final paper in Computer Hardware Design was on the Pentium processor, and you could only find three sources because it wasn't due to be released for another 6 months.
You post on Slashdot recounting how old you are, hoping someone will think you are cool
--
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Message to Spammers:
by
cybermace5
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· Score: 3, Funny
To the Man in the Can:
I am willing in the utmost confidence and secret to help your with some certain relaying needs. My server does waits idle at my residence in an yet to be disclosed location, ready to relay your messages to the considerate masses. In exchange for your sum of $20 per month, my server will confidentiality flood the Internet with your excellent offerings.
I can personally and utmost attest to guarantee that you messages will pass through entire unaltered, and not be redirected to/dev/null, or replaced with the text "I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR X PERCENT OF ALL YOUR SPAM" and your home address & phone number. I would most certainly not monitor every spam you attempted to send at your discretion, and report each and every instance to the immediately authorities.
I trust you to and maintain the highest level of integrity & confidence in this matter.
--- Ham Nbu Jahir, Supreme Commander of Nigerian National Space Fleet
-- ...
Re:Little bastards..
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Funny
Back in my day, we finished the jokes we started. None of this giving up in a huff, no sir. We took that joke out into the snow behind our shoddily constructed log cabins and we just kept beating on it till it was good and dead.
Kids these days. You don't know how easy you have it.
The pictograph at the end of the article?
by
way2trivial
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· Score: 2, Funny
Thank god for that,
I'm a Windows user, and without that little GUI I wouldn't have understood the article at all!
-- every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Re:Unrest is born. . .
by
Snork+Asaurus
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· Score: 4, Funny
Anything can be turned into a buck.
Bucks urgently required. Please post formula.
-- Sigs are bad for your health.
Re:Sick of spam?
by
RedWolves2
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· Score: 2, Funny
almost-maxxed-out Visa
And this same person is using the get out of debt spam mails to fix his visa card. Will the cycle never end?
Re:Tracked using MAC address
by
soulsteal
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· Score: 2, Funny
I was compromised at one point in time my freshman year and had a smurf attack originate from my machine.
I pray that these were not separate occasions.
Re:The School is very liberal..this isn't surprisi
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schon
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· Score: 2, Funny
(they send a person to your room with virus software if one's detected)
Yikes!
Wouldn't anti-virus software be a better solution?
This just proves these students aren't as resourceful as they could be. I for one, would have placed some sort of trojan on as many people's computers I could find, then sell ALL of their machine's use for spamming. I mean, I'm certainly not condoning spamming and I dislike it myself, but if you are going to do it, do it right....
Re:Unrest is born. . .
by
bradkittenbrink
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· Score: 2, Funny
hey kids, we should all know this one by now, here's the formula for you:
anything
...
Profit!
Re:Unrest is born. . .
by
dacarr
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· Score: 2, Funny
For these guys?
1) Open yourself up as a spam relay
2)...
3) Lose network access!
Face it, people, $20/month will get you a shitload of ramen, but is it worth $20/mo to lose your gigabit network access?
If you sell out for a price, regardless of circumstances, it means you sold out.
H.L. Mencken was at a high society function and speaking with one of the grande dames of society. After some initial witty small talk, he asked her "Madame, would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"
Much laughter later, she agreed.
"Madame, would you sleep with me for one dollar?"
The dame was grievously offended and asked Mencken what she thought she was--some whore?
"Madame, we've already established that you're a whore," he replied. "Now we're just dickering about your price."
Slashdot Mirror
It seems that being medical test subjects would be less likely to get them killed.
Modular Redundancy--Because 4 out of 5 Nodes agree
What happened to the good old days when college students sold blood, sperm or surfed the web to earn beer money!
I thought college students made all the coin they could ever need with those webcams.
This is the real signature
(Beats those shadows on the cave wall, don't it?)
Man, I can imagine doing something like this in a dorm but for only 20 bucks? You'd think that it would at least be worth TWO large pizzas a month...
This is like the computer nerd equivilent to "College Girls Gone Wild". Anything for a buck.
Except instead of making me want to spank myself, I want to spank them.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Dear Mr. Spammer, I wouldn't mind to relay your
spam at all! In fact, I would do it with a full
satisfaction of doing a valuable service to the
community! Please, pretty please, pick (and pay)
me to be your relay!
WBR / lastberserker
.
.
.
[...of course I won't detail on _where_ I would
relay your spam, but what's the matter - noone
would miss it anyways...]
My other Beowulf cluster is... er...
!!! MAKE MONEY FAST !!!
Earn as much as $20.00 a month sending out unsolicited email!
Trolling is a art,
Will they be setting up servers to share pirated music and video or something??? Oh, wait...
"I'm not, like, that smart. I, like, forget stuff all the time." -- Paris Hilton
...if they put a video cam in their dorm room. They sold out cheap!
Best Buy can have you arrested
I didn't understand the article at all. Then I saw the helpful graphic at the bottom of the article. It clearly showed just how the process worked! Without that picture, I would have been in the dark.
Karma: Chevy Kavalierma.
Well , these students must be pretty dumb anyway to do this for a measly $20 with the risk of being banned permanently from the uni network (or even the uni itself) so maybe the spammers ask for bank details (get them because of the amazing credulity of Simon Student), deposit $20 and then sell those details on to some people in Nigeria who always seem to be desperate for somewhere to deposit $20,000,000 :) Ahem.
Cutco....
Must... sell... knives...
The whole experience still makes me shudder.
Oh another name dropper eh.
A more subtle way is that the college you attend in Cambridge has already implemented this. The only problem with this approach is that all the alumni from Cambridge Universtiy think you're trying to associate yourself with their older and more established college.
This just proves that Tuff's has a better business school than Harvards...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
You know you are old when:
You had to work a real job to get money in college
People refer to the "good old days" and in your mind it was yesterday
There was no World Wide Web when you were in college (unless you count FTP, BBSs, and Gopher sites)
Your final paper in Computer Hardware Design was on the Pentium processor, and you could only find three sources because it wasn't due to be released for another 6 months.
You post on Slashdot recounting how old you are, hoping someone will think you are cool
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
To the Man in the Can:
/dev/null, or replaced with the text "I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR X PERCENT OF ALL YOUR SPAM" and your home address & phone number. I would most certainly not monitor every spam you attempted to send at your discretion, and report each and every instance to the immediately authorities.
I am willing in the utmost confidence and secret to help your with some certain relaying needs. My server does waits idle at my residence in an yet to be disclosed location, ready to relay your messages to the considerate masses. In exchange for your sum of $20 per month, my server will confidentiality flood the Internet with your excellent offerings.
I can personally and utmost attest to guarantee that you messages will pass through entire unaltered, and not be redirected to
I trust you to and maintain the highest level of integrity & confidence in this matter.
--- Ham Nbu Jahir, Supreme Commander of Nigerian National Space Fleet
...
Kids these days. You don't know how easy you have it.
Thank god for that,
I'm a Windows user, and without that little GUI
I wouldn't have understood the article at all!
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Bucks urgently required. Please post formula.
Sigs are bad for your health.
almost-maxxed-out Visa
And this same person is using the get out of debt spam mails to fix his visa card. Will the cycle never end?
I was compromised at one point in time my freshman year and had a smurf attack originate from my machine.
I pray that these were not separate occasions.
(they send a person to your room with virus software if one's detected)
Yikes!
Wouldn't anti-virus software be a better solution?
1. Hire Tufts students to sell Cutco knives to Anti-Spammers.
2. Set up webcam to watch Anti-Spammers carve up Tufts students.
3. ???
4. Cleanup.
FreeSpeech.org
This just proves these students aren't as resourceful as they could be. I for one, would have placed some sort of trojan on as many people's computers I could find, then sell ALL of their machine's use for spamming. I mean, I'm certainly not condoning spamming and I dislike it myself, but if you are going to do it, do it right....
For these guys? 1) Open yourself up as a spam relay 2) ...
3) Lose network access!
Face it, people, $20/month will get you a shitload of ramen, but is it worth $20/mo to lose your gigabit network access?
This sig no verb.
If you sell out for a price, regardless of circumstances, it means you sold out.
H.L. Mencken was at a high society function and speaking with one of the grande dames of society. After some initial witty small talk, he asked her "Madame, would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"
Much laughter later, she agreed.
"Madame, would you sleep with me for one dollar?"
The dame was grievously offended and asked Mencken what she thought she was--some whore?
"Madame, we've already established that you're a whore," he replied. "Now we're just dickering about your price."