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WLANs As Spam Conduit

Saint Aardvark writes "According to this article, a honeypot was recently set up on two wireless LANs. 25% of the connections observed were deliberate, and 71% of those were to send spam. Even more reason to take care of your ether." These statistics should be taken with a salt lick...

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  1. Ether? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That stuff gives me a rush! First Post?

  2. just to be clear... by ilduce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Post script on my prior note--
    IANAL--
    just so you all know. I didn't want anyone to get in trouble or anything...

  3. dlickit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dlickit ddlickit dddlickit ddddlickit

  4. DUH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And in other news, bathroom walls can be used as a spam conduit.

  5. One day /. will implode by nickgrieve · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The PATRIOT act is used to define SPAM as terrorism.

  6. america by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    america sucks a cack.

    it's orwellian how talk of "democracy" for iraq suddenly disappeared without a trace.

    oh you thought they weren't just gonna put in a new puppet?

  7. Black crime statistics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Blacks murder more than 1,600 whites each year.

    Blacks murder whites at 18 times the rate whites murder blacks.

    Blacks murdered, raped, robbed, or assaulted about one million whites in 1992.

    In the last 30 years, blacks committed 170 million violent and non-violent crimes against whites.

    Blacks under 18 are more than 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than whites under 18.

    About 90% of the victims of interracial crimes are white.

    Blacks commit 7.5 times more violent interracial crimes than whites, although whites outnumber blacks by 7 to 1.

    On a per capita basis, blacks commit 50 times more violent crime than whites.

    Black neighborhoods are 35 times more violent than white neighborhoods.

    Of the 27 million nonviolent robberies in 1992, 31% (8.4 million) were committed by blacks against whites. Less than 2% were committed by whites against blacks.

    Of the 6.6 million violent crimes, 20% (1.3 million) were interracial.

    Of the the 1.3 million interracial violent crimes, 90% (1.17 million) are black against white.

    In the past 20 years, violent crime increased four times faster than the population.

    In the last 30 years (1964-94), more than 45,000 people were killed in interracial murders compared to 38,000 killed in Korea and 58,000 in Vietnam.

    In the last 50 years, the white part of the American population has declined from 90% to 72%. The U.S. now has about 33 million blacks and 25 million Hispanics (legal and illegal). By the year 2050, American whites will be a minority, just 49%. By 2100, whites will be 25% of the population.

    The White race is 8% of earth's population.

    1. Re:Black crime statistics by jhunsake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Thank god I'll be dead by 2100.

  8. Read ^UP^ stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  9. Trap spammers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Set 3 AP's up. Put some camera's in an open street, and use some positioning software (possible with 3+ AP's). Install a packet sniffer on your server, and arrest those guys!

  10. I for one don't like it. by Deal-a-Neil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We have to pay an additional $1.75 per MONTH for this new "number portability". Listen, at the end of the day, I don't feel bound to my cell phone number. Hell, it helps me weed out the people that I don't want to have it. I think this should be an option for each consumer -- you make the decision when you sign up, as to whether or not you want to keep that number, not some mandate across the board. That's another $21.00 a year for something I give two craps about.

  11. the Salt Lick by deflood · · Score: 0, Offtopic