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WLANs As Spam Conduit

Posted by chrisd on from the spammers-are-still-evil dept.

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. wireless pig ! by ramzak2k · · Score: 1, Troll

    i see a wireless pig icon up there ! Is it just me ? I need some sleep ..

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  2. The obvious answer to this is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    KILL WHITEY!

  3. Re:4 percent? by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 1, Troll

    They were terrorists.

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  4. Re:GO AGAINST THE FLOW YOU SPICS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh my god. I was just sitting in a linux channel on irc.openprojects.net when an internet vandal entered and repeatedly posted messages of a homosexual site with the address of http://www.goatse.cx OMG do not follow that link. I am going to need much prayer to cleanse that abominable image from my mind.

    and child porn. MUCH child porn.

    Whatever you do, do NOT CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE!!!
    Thank you.

  5. Re:GO AGAINST THE FLOW YOU SPICS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's even more gay is that they already deleted one similarly worded comment containing that link (mixed with goatse) already.

    I guess some things hit a little Too Close to home, eh?