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FTC Wants Secret Spam Investigation Powers
PingXao writes "Amidst the various anti-spam efforts underway in Washington, the FTC surprised lawmakers by saying they need to be able to secretly investigate the worst-offending spammers, according to a Washington Post article. I'm generally against government secrecy, but quietly investigating spammers isn't as bad as secret courts and arrests. Is this acceptable, or another mis-step down the slippery slope?"
fp kthx bi :D
helo wat is ur asl ?
FP.
Slippery slope.
upyours!
it would really be great if I could reply to this, or are they investigating the trolls for spamming behavior on the DL?
this is spam
Lick Bush in '88
While /. spreads Linux zealotry, I thought I'd counter with with just another Linux vulnerability report, once again not given as much coverage as the usual anti-MS "extremely malformed 500GB file causes IE to slow down a bit" FUD...
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered and fixed in the Linux kernel.
* CAN-2003-0001: Multiple ethernet network card drivers do not pad
frames with null bytes which allows remote attackers to obtain
information from previous packets or kernel memory by using
special malformed packets.
* CAN-2003-0244: The route cache implementation in the 2.4 kernel and
the Netfilter IP conntrack module allows remote attackers to cause a
Denial of Service (DoS) via CPU consumption due to packets with
forged source addresses that cause a large number of hash table
collisions related to the PREROUTING chain.
* CAN-2003-0246: The ioperm implementation in 2.4.20 and earlier
kernels does not properly restrict privileges, which allows local
users to gain read or write access to certain I/O ports.
* CAN-2003-0247: A vulnerability in the TTY layer of the 2.4 kernel
allows attackers to cause a kernel oops resulting in a DoS.
* CAN-2003-0248: The mxcsr code in the 2.4 kernel allows attackers to
modify CPU state registers via a malformed address.
The latter.
off topic I know, but Invisible Man was a great show, it's too bad it got cut.
Today's letter comes to us from a friendly foreign-national:
Dear Sirs:
Thank you for giving us your many jobs. We appreciate them so and gladly accept the money that would otherwise go to feed your unemployed which appear to be many and growing.
As I have said before, we look forward much to performing all of your technical work for which we will learn to defeat you with knowledge one day eventually. In the meantime, enjoy your swimming pool and maid service kind corporate wealthy individuals.
We also welcome the many other jobs that we can accept as outsourcing. We will be most glad to answer your telephone from our call centers. However, one question remains: if we have all of your jobs, how can your average American individual afford a telephone with which to contact our call centers? Will these people not by then be boiling their telephones for basic nourishment?
Do not blame us for this outsourcing predicament, poor downtrodden workers. We are only trying to better ourselves--after all, we are tired of living on soup made of houseflies and camel broth. If you must blame someone, blame the very rich Americans who will never see hardship from these decisions with long-term consequences.
Poor America. It will soon become a place of urban warfare as the average people will find it necessary to roam the streets and attack brief-case carrying executives whom they will skin and eat for dinner.
What is the famous expression:
"I told me so."
Sincerely,
Ragwassad
When the government takes away someone else's rights they take away all of our rights.
Those who trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither" -- Ben Franklin