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India Tops Target List For Spam
Ant wrote to mention a ZDNet news report on the realities of spam traffic. The U.S. is still the number one producer/distributor of spam in the world. However, with their quick adoption of technology over the last few years, Indian users are now top targets for spam. From the article: "India's rapid adoption of new technology has left its PC users struggling to cope with very high levels of spam, according to a report released Wednesday. Ninety-one percent of email traffic sent to Indian PC users is spam, according to email security company MessageLabs, which warned that the rate of technological advancement has outstripped growth in security awareness. 'There is booming technology in India, but it has been suggested there is little thought for security, which creates a market to exploit that,' said Paul Wood, security analyst at MessageLabs."
Asians are afflicted with smaller than average penises. It makes sense to target them with appropriate spam.
It's a huge growing market over there. In more ways than one!
What does one thing have to do with the other? How does having viruses in the UAE hinder the running of a port?
Appropriate, considering that a large proportion of the spam I receive is about "offshoring oppportunities" in India.
the rate of technological advancement has outstripped growth in security awareness
That happened the first time one of our grandmothers got a computer "to look at the online." The day computers outgrew the subset of the population who knew everything about how to use them safely is long past.
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Hehe. Come on, let's get started! How do you say "penis pills" in Hindi?
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From this A: some stats on weapons sales to our "friends" including the UAE: * $2 billion of AMRAAMs, ammunition and bombs to complement a previous $6-8 billion F- 16 fighter jet sale to the United Arab Emirates. The U.A.E. has also demanded the computer coding for the F- 1 6s which would enable it to modify or replicate the jet's intelligence. If the U.A.E. gets the source code, other buyers will be sure to want it too.
what's sad is that I can't find a list from OUR government.
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I guess the truth is out there software, or should I say somewhere...
It somehow claims to be outdated open-relay-sendmail and could be easily replaced by other software - like some of the rest of the world you have to change and adapt to common evolutions, or could it be that this is a commercial stunt on selling Anti-Spam software...
I don;t believe the statistics. But, with everything else being outsourced to India, including nucular materials, I think it only fitting that spam be sent there too!
First they take our tech jobs, and now they are taking our spam! Is there no end to this madness?!
How ironic that 'India Tops Target List For Spam' when 70% of India's population are vegetarians.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
In response, Microsoft India is trying to sell their stuff to illiterate people. Smart move. Customers who can't read spam aren't bothered by it.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
Source of the Spam
Look on a map.
You guys do know that Hollywood and New York (ABC, NBC, ABC, Turner, etc..) are doing an end run, eh?
You do understand the implications of big three (Comcast, Bell(s), and Verision) will be charging content providers access to their customers, eh? By doing so, they effectively consolidate RIAA, MPAA, etc... as sole providers of content.
You guys do understand that the only secure computer is a terminal and I guess you know that removing the ability to compile is a key part of IP protection?
You guys to realize the anti-competitive environment planned on by
You guys do realize that you're being stabbed in the back by corporate suits wearing sheeps' clothing, eh? You know that the liberal party (to a lesser extent both, there is much to say about both) welds demographics and psychology as a weapon, eh?
Until you guys straighten up a bit and level off for a while (instead of being useful idiots, these kinds of folk will eventually win). The sooner you guys figure out and can see that the only thing they seek is the death of all things, the better off we are (it should be common sense, like knowing that you'll get burnt by putting you hand on a red hot element).
You guys do realize that feminism is mostly not benevolent. That it has killed 100,000's of children in selectively handing out UN medicine of women and girls only. That women assume responsibility for child rearing because she has a choice. That shared custody means that you are only responsible for the child while he or she is under your roof. That twice as many men die from prostrate cancer as women dying from breast cancer (a doctor once said, "You'll either die with it or from it"). That divorce laws haven't really changed it 150 years. That blacks families were on par with whites less then 50 years ago (liberal dogma destroyed the family resulting in gangs and violence or that same solution is knowingly being instituted across the globe (do you know your party's history?)). Tax funded lobby groups are the way to go. That domestic violence is 50/50 or that more men seek medical treatment because of DV than women. That spousal homicide is and has been 50/50 for the last 45 years. That men are a minority and are at greatest risk in this country. Did you know that men learning to say No is a bad thing, or that legal ramifications are kept out of sex ed for that purpose.
Think critically, think clearing, question authority and know that your inclusion is given and not earned, speak your mind. Don't get angry, get smart. Live free or die.
WAR!!!
There is booming technology in India, but it has been suggested there is little thought for security, which creates a market to exploit that.
I wonder if the "little thought for security" also applies to the call centers there, who have access to at least some customer information, certainly including email addresses, and likely including home addresses.
Note that I am not bashing the quality of phone support sourced from the subcontinent. I have had good and bad support experiences with people from all over the place. But they better not be settin' up no call center in Dubai, or I'm gonna make a big stink about it.
Web 2.0 == Giant Blogspam Circle Jerk
I'm amazed at the general standard of comments posted on this... if the best reaction some of the folk here can come up with, is the size of Indian penises and how Indians are stealing your spam, maybe you deserve to have your job outsourced... Sociology aside, spam is a problem irrespective of who's getting it.. So grow up guys and get your dicks out of your heads.
Its interesting to see how so many direct insults to India are being modded as "Funny" etc while a slight indirect negative comment on Microsoft can get one labelled "Flaimbait"..
Following this observation, I wouldn't be suprised if this post gets labelled Flaimbait either..
I really hope that you leave Slashdot soon. Your karma whoring (I'm so glad this particular post backfired on you), your incessant first-posting, your shoot-from-the-hip "anti-anything-Republican"ist attitude, your damned Google links because we're all obviously too f-ing stupid to use it on our own... oh, yes, and your repulsive anime smiles. Enough is enough.
You are one of the reasons why Slashdot is losing its appeal. Any thread with you in it automatically causes people's eyes to roll while grunting under their breath, "Not him again..." Whore somewhere else. Better yet, go and create your own site - slash-moveon.org or something - where you can combine your whoring and blind politics.
fellow /. rs,
i am shocked to see how much hatred brews under the hood of all these free spirted guys. Me included, my first reaction when somebody pulls a bad one me is to get right back. But given the facts, we didnt go to US or whatever other country to oursource jobs, it was in US citizen's hand to do it and they did it, and if by any chance, you can take a fact from an Asian, do understand that its all money games. You start bad mouthing me, I start wid my own things, but do understand how did we reach here; it was all because of one MNC corporate who just wanted to make more money. I may be little early on my prediction, but i can tell you for sure that by the end of this century, there wont be an American or Asian left to fight. You may not like the fact but all of the world gonna be pretty much the same; hungry for more and ready to beat each other up for nothing.
howz that for a input about how other races are better or worse than urs!
Rock Steady.
Hey, as long as we're not giving them control of port 25...
I think that nothing has really changed, since spammers don't actually target anyone. They just carpet-nuke everyone on the planet with impunity.
And 90% spam isn't unusual. Only if it's getting *past* your filters, although the article seems to suggest that there aren't any.
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
"Spammers have now discovered India it appears. The anti spam community around the world has noticed a steady increase in the amount of spam originating from Indian open relay SMTP servers. "The problem is compounded by the fact that several of these servers are running old Mail Transport Agents (mostly outdated versions of Sendmail) which are anonymous open relays. That is, they allow spammers to relay mails without the sender's IP address being stamped in the headers, as is the case with most modern MTAs. "Worse, such old MTAs have gaping security holes. Because sendmail runs as UID 0 (the same as root) a spammer can easily gain root access on a unix system running such an outdated MTA. This (or something quite similar) happened just after the Pokhran blasts, when BARC's servers were hacked by MilW0rm." -cauce india
After all, where do you think our American spammers are going to go once they are outsourced?
I am sure that there are many Indians that are knowledgeable, yet in my direct experience I have yet to find any. (Noted I have direct experience with a very small subset of Indians, but I would also venture a guess that someone who Lives in India has had a likewise small subset of Indians)
I have to deal with two incompetent Indians on a daily basis, unfortunately I am the sysadmin for our lab, and no one has written bengali for firefox yet. It took me three months of telling them not to use IE and because of thier ineptitude I must remove spyware weekly from the computers here.
It doesnt help matters that they have an elitist attitude and their culture doesnt allow them to be taught or admit that they were wrong. When something happens that is bad there is always a "I deed not doo eeett" when before they joined things weren't breaking but after broken things just turn up broken, in inconspicous places.
So I say send the spam on, if India is anything like the people I am forced to suffer through on a daily basis you should get tons of suckers there waiting to throw money at you.
Hmmm you type like that and I am the illiterate one. Some tips:
r != are
dictionary.com is your friend
Guardian is rarely taken to mean parent, except in formal documents.
MessageLabs' study is limited to their customers -- corporate mailservers that run MessageLabs' spam and virus filtering solutions.
/sarcasm
So much hulla-boo when the study itself is not credible.
90% of the statistic is made up. Or in the MessageLabs' case -- made up of 10% of the information.
Maybe the reason that they have a high proportion of spam to ham is that there's not much ham? Maybe no-one wants to send them real email, so all they get is spam. Maybe if spam was made from cows, it would be different in India. Is it different in Israel? Maybe it's Spanna (spiced manna)?
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
cool
Abe 'anshubansal' behn ka launde. Sale angrezi aati nahi hai to bolta kyon hai? Aur saale tere writing skills ke kya kahna - kya analytical arguments diyela re bhai. Sahi mein tu India ke naam pe kalank hai. Ja doob mar.
Why is it then that so many Indians come to western countries for university education? Why are they working so hard is they aren't interested in money?
Money is your main motivation plain and simple. You have seen the worst examples of poverty imaginable in your own country and want to work hard to avoid that at all costs.
I can make sweeping generalisations too! If you are from India it is extremely likely that your parents are in a loveless, arranged marriage and you father regularly beats every member of the household. Nice values there.
At least the cows are well looked after....