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25,000-Ton Amphibious Spam Relay
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.
I hope http://www.news.navy.mil has a sense of humor about the dreaded /. DDOS attack that they're under!!! /lamer
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
relaying spam to your inbox.
This is the ideal goverment. The tax dollars working directly for its citizens.
-Grump
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
who pictured a giant, floating, can of Hormel's spicy meat concoction, peeling back it's top to release aircraft and attack vehicles? My GI Joe collection never had one of those...
SOYLENT SPAM IS FROGS!!!
2000 gung-ho, pissed of marines with landing craft, naval support and air support vs pasty chinese spammer with goverment welfare support.
Hate me!
Obviously, instead of sealing of ports, some poor yoeman went and sealed portholes...
yuk yuk yuk
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
Somebody's watched to many Cold-War-era action movies.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
...I just don't even know what to say
Perhaps we need to create a 'great firewall' of our own.
And to think that our tax dollars are being subverted to send spam.
Hey! come on! try dividing it by anything!
Just add the military to your email blacklist. They've been asking for it, I'm sure. I already have to filter most of what they say, anyway. I don't see why email should be any different. (Maybe the next line of ships will come with an oil spill too.)
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
Perhaps the spamming facilities on the ship are part of a US initiative to disable enemy email infrastructure?
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.
In the event of Taiwan's declaring independence from the mainland, we can instantly flood Beijing with ads for penis enlargement!
That will slow down the PRC armies long enough for us to convince them that they don't really need Tawian and should focus on switching over to an economy based on turkey guts.
Evangelizing turkey guts since mid-2003.
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The ship supports the Marine Corps "mobility triad," the LCAC
...
(Landing Craft Air Cushion vehicle), the "Triple A-V" (AAAV -
Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle) and the MV-22 (Osprey
tiltrotor aircraft),
and (apparently) spammers in Guandong. Rd China.
Furthermore, 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.
Of course, it's possible that one of the OTHER eleven ships, still under
construction, is the Avondale, LA dot-MIL spam relay, or trojaned boat,
or some nice-and-secure Windows box in the construction drydocks, running
Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13
But doesn't it make all Americans feel all fuzzy and secure that a
Red Chinese spammer can abuse a US Naval Vessel of one of the newest
designs, to relay his "business proposition"?
Perhaps it's tied to the USS Green Bay, instead? or USS New Orleans?
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/newswire_content.asp?tx tDataID=8963&txtTypeID=2
The USS Mesa Verde, seems to be in Mississippi, instead
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/newswire_content.asp?tx tDataID=8663&txtTypeID=2
But the E-Mail headers finger the USS San Antonio, LPD 17, already
christened, and due for commissioning some time this coming year.
LPD 17 Looks Like a "Gator"
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/newswire_content.asp?tx tDataID=8596&txtTypeID=2
but from here, it just looks like another spammer.
[SPECIMEN]
H: Return-Path:
H: Received: from avnavfw.lpd17.navsea.navy.mil
H: (avnavfw.pms317.navy.mil [05.67.231.235])
H: by mail.gtcs.com (8.12.10/8.11.3/gtcs-6.3.8) with SMTP
H: id hBG65HO8091853
H: for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:06:39 -0700 (MST)
H: (envelope-from: )
H: X-Authentication-Warning: serv.gtcs.com: Host
H: avnavfw.pms317.navy.mil [205.67.231.235]
H: claimed to be avnavfw.lpd17.navsea.navy.mil
H: Received: from no.name.available by anavfw.lpd17.navsea.navy.mil
H: via smtpd (for [209.181.16.1]) with SMTP; 16 Dec 2003 05:53:08 UT
H: Received: from avnavfw.AVONDALE (205.67.231.5 [205.67.231.5]) by
H: swn-email.lpd17.navy.mil with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail
H: Service Version 5.5.2653.13)
H: id YY2BDP4P; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:07:28 -0600
H: From: "HuatonE-ScooterCo.,Ltd"
H: Received: from [61.145.234.62] by avnavfw.AVONDALE
H: via smtpd (for [205.66.99.30]) with SMTP; 16 Dec 2003 05:51:47 UT
H: Subject: Re.About our new product
H: Content-Type: text/html
H: Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:57:41 +0800
H: X-Priority: 3
[extract from HTML body]
B: Our company specializes in exporting electric & gas scooters, which
B: are most popular with our customers at home and abroad. Now we are
B: writing to offer you an opportunity to develop a mutual trade. If
B: you are interested in establishing business relations with us, please
B: let us know your requirements. Then we would like to forward catalogues
B: as well as detailed information to you, and offer the best price to
B: you. We assure you of our best attention to your any inquiries.
B: We anticipate your early response in respect.
B: Huaton E-scooter Co., Ltd.
B: Room.B-202,Building Si-Hai-Ming-Yuan
B: Burg Weiji,Zone Gongbei
B: City Zhuhai 519020
B: Province Kwangtung,China
B: Tel:86-756-821-6922
B: Fax:86-756-888-3037
Spam support by:
The US Navy, Avondale Lousiana Shipyard, Frewall, a
I hate to destroy part of a good story. But San Antonio is NOT, repeat NOT the spam relay. LANs on ships are NOT connected to the Internet. The military has its own non-public networks for ships. Furthermore, San Antonio has NOT been delivered to the Navy. It is still under construction. That's the good news. The bad news, is that a Navy site has been compromised. The headers give us some clues. avnavfw.pms317.navy.mil is a Navy address. PMS317 is the Navy program office responsible for building the San Antonio class of ships. Avondale Shipyard is where the ships are built.
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.
Of spam in a Can, but never spam in a boat.
-Certified TechnoWeinie
...because they certainly aren't relaying webpages very good at the moment.
Someone want to post the article?
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
It's true, women prefer men with LARGE GOVERNMENTS. Communism can help you regrow hair, and in communist societies there's no reason to spam!
As we reported in our annual report of the top ten Internet chat topics for 2003, the U.S. Navy uses secure chat rooms for communication on board ships.
Apparently they missed securing their email server. I wonder if keelhauling is still allowed.
Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com
You'd end up with 2000 Marines busy churning through hundreds of penis enlargement, bigger boobs, refinancing, debt-free, horny teens, etc ads. I expect they'd resent the penis enlargement ads the most.
Sure they wouldn't attack Nigeria though? After all, they'd want to collect on those millions they were promised by Mr Sebeko, cousin of the ex-Finance Minister.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Didn't the DOD just get a grade of F
for network security?
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.
...when they are using ASP. Let's hope they're using the Apache port, otherwise they would be using *shudder* ISS and winbloze.
25,000 tons?! I'm sure I could build an unsolicated bulk email server that weighs less than 1 ton.
---Okay, so it wouldn't be amphibious.
Sometimes I worry that I'll develop Alzheimer's disease, but no one will notice.
LPD-17 class ships (Landing Platform, Dock) are not themselves amphibious, but transport amphibious craft such as LCACs (Landing Craft, Air Cushion) and other vehicles used in amphibious operations.
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For more information on these ships, see
I do not like it from a boat
I do not like it from a goat
I don't need a huge torpedo
I don't need help with my libido
I do not like it from Chinese
I do not like it, stop it, please!
I do not like unsolicited Spam,
So please REMOVE ME Sam I Am!
Don't you think that thy just might use the names of ships etc for the names of their servers.
It's actualy a new node for warboaters...
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
Why not just buy a scooter from the guy - then they will stop emailing you.
Seriously though, it seems to be questionable if any military network was actually compromised...
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
Remember when that Kuro5hin poster was concerned about the safety of the Vice President, and he got a visit from the Feds because they thought he was making threats against the VPs life? If they've got the time (and money!) to deal with ridiculous shit like that, then surely they can take care of an issue like this, right?
I mean, seriously, spam costs money, right? It doesn't cost the spammers anything, but the compromised relays must be losing out from cost of bandwidth and deterioration of service, right? w/ Halliburton fucking taxpayers recently, surely someone at the military must be keeping an eey out for other people trying to take advantage of us, right?!
Does that make sense?
[o]_O
Good to see the Navy centralizes control of their boondoggle projects.
I swear I tried to bring this up as a Sgt in the Marines back in early 90's. I was attached to the Marine Corps element that had decision making on what computer operating systems to use. The Officers in charge started going the way towards Microsoft. The Marines at that time had Banyan servers and had to worry over virus infections, but not on the servers.
I told the Officers that if we get Microsoft servers, we will have nothing but cracking and virus infections on the servers. No one wanted to listen. Microsoft pretty much snowballed them and sold them a bill of goods that are leaving the military open to attacks.
I can bet that someone loses their job over this one. I just hope it isn't a person who turns out to be a fall guy.
All the Army Watercraft are not navy!
The Army Transportation Corps (wo)man the tugboats. They handle the ship to shore transport of equipment and supplies.
Not sure of the numbers now, but back in the 80s, the US Army has more watercraft than the Navy, more aircraft than the Airforce, and more grunts than the Marines.
Check FAS.org for more info on the "Army's navy"
Another good place for information on the Transportation corps is Ft Eustis
No...quoting from their site:
"The Navy Office of Information is headed by the Chief of Information (CHINFO), a Rear Admiral, who is the direct representative of the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations for Navy-wide public affairs matters."
See...just one day after Bush signs the dma spam law and the spammers have gone and moved their operations off-shore.
They'll want bigger faster spam relays!!
I take no responsibility for what I say. Even though I'm never wrong
Better be careful... this is one access point that can fight back...
Actually with a few exceptions, the bulk of the "blue water" US scientific ships (e.g., AGOR class) are owned by the US Navy and are on loan to various academic institutions. These ships are distinctly different than their military counterparts as their hulls are painted white instead of gray.
It never fails to amaze me how many former navy seals, marines, snipers, covert operatives, counter-terrorist agents and military officers frequent internet forums which are otherwise used mostly by nerds.
Unless some of us veterans did computers before in the military, which would lead me to say that nerd stuff is no longer nerdy. It finally has been found to be what it is - Intelligence. Disclaimer: This is meant in NO WAY to denote that the millitary is intelligent. Sometimes they have the best deals on frontal labotomies.
We get 20k to 30k per day where I work, that's pieces of spam not bytes.
Of that I successfully filter 75%, only because when I had it down to 99% success rate people bitched that they were not getting enough mail. Go figure!
I have personally analyzed well over half a million spam messages over the last 8 months and have found less than 5% that were not spoofed.
1) Spellcheck articles
2) Check for dupes.
Since both of these would be trivial to implement, and both have been suggested thousands of times, I conclude that actually suggestions are not welcome.
Right... except that (s)he had to fight through basic training/boot camp/etc also. Being a nerd doesn't get you a free pass on the difficult training.
They may not be risking their lives, but there are a ton of "fake soldiers" who will never be stationed in a war-zone but are absolutely imperative to ensure that "real soldiers" have the best odds of survival possible and the country has the best odds of victory.
Implying that the enlisted men and women who don't serve in combat aren't "real soldiers" is a cheap and ignorant thing to do... maybe why you posted as AC, perhaps?