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25,000-Ton Amphibious Spam Relay

Posted by timothy on from the all-access dept.

hormiga writes "The amphibious transport dock ship San Antonio incorporates the latest quality of life standards for the embarked Marines and sailors, including the sit-up berth, ship services mall, a fitness center and learning resource center/electronic classroom and Unsolicited Bulk E-Mail. Now the Chinese can relay their spam through U.S. military naval vessels." Well, Chinese spammers, anyhow.

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  1. Blacklisting the United States Navy? by tekiegreg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well if anyone tries blacklisting the ships, I guess there'd be a Tomahawk in their building in the name of national security :-p

    But in all honesty, I'm sure (or at least I hope) more attention is given to the confidential systems than the SMTP server that the troops play around with...

    --
    ...in bed
  2. Re:Special. by xyzzy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right, but the distinction here is that the Email does not generally come delivered directly from the *ship*, but from some stateside server, probably part of NMCI (the Navy Marine Corps Internet). There are N firewalls between here and there, if for no other reason than the bandwidth from ship to shore is INCREDIBLY small (like: 256kbit for the entire ship, secure, classified, public, you name it). It would make a LOUSY spam relay.

  3. Re:Special. by Teflonatron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You were using NIPRNET, which is connected to the Internet at only a few (very controlled) locations in the world...

    Any sensitve IP communications are handled over SIPRNET, which is never (or should never be) connected to NIPRNET.