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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. Your tax dollars hard at work by ForestGrump · · Score: 5, Interesting

    relaying spam to your inbox.

    This is the ideal goverment. The tax dollars working directly for its citizens.
    -Grump

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  2. slashdotters in the military? by prgrmr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Could be:

    telnet 205.67.231.235 25
    Trying...
    Connected to 205.67.231.235.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    421 avnavfw.AVONDALE Sorry, the firewall does not provide mail service to you.
    Connection closed.

  3. Special. by sparkie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Naval ships have had internet access before this ship. As a Marine I've sent and received E-Mails from more than 1 or 2 ships in the fleet.

  4. What was that grade again..... by common+middle+name · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Didn't the DOD just get a grade of F
    for network security?

  5. As soon as.. by herrvinny · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As soon as I saw this on /.'s front page, I went "Oh dear God"... Anyone else think, when glancing at the headline, that spammers had purchased a retired boat, put it in international waters, and spammed away from it?

    Then I RTFA'ed. Pretty sad that military servers are compromised by nothing other than some stupid spammers. Makes you think what Chinese or other rogue government sponsored hackers could do to our systems if we even went to war with them....

    The next war, if we fight it with a non african or Middle Eastern country, is going to involve cyber assualts. Hope the Pentagon is going to firm up their defenses more, both electronically and physically. Maybe they can even get the services of Akamai; they're practically DDOS-proof.

  6. Re:They have a sense of humor by daniel23 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    according to netcraft www.news.navy.mil runs Microsoft-IIS/5.0 under FreeBSD.

    Well, defense is their business, isn't it?

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