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Spammers Announce World War III
schliz writes with the stub of a disheartening article at IT News: "Hackers are deluging web users with malware-laden spam claiming that World War III has started following a US invasion of Iran. Security experts warned [yesterday] that spam emails with subject lines including 'Third World War has begun,' '20000 US Soldiers in Iran,' and 'US Army crossed Iran's borders' have been intercepted. The emails contain links to a malicious webpage that displays what appears to be a video player showing the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion."
I can tell from the text and seeing quite a few spams in my time.
This just in: malware propagators have learned that sending a mass e-mail that will grab the attention of anyone who reads it is the best way to spread malware. More at 11.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
Did spam make it to the front page?
It has to be a really slow news day if we get an article explaining what is in specific pieces of spam.
I'm waiting patiently for Slashdot to post the Nigerian folks that always email for the millions they have to give away. Because you know -- that is real news. For nerds. Stuff that matters.
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
So all the ISP filters are ready to tune out the real thing. That will keep people from talking about the invasion of Iran when it really does happen. Then all those Haliburton jails for "illegal aliens" will be put to use.
We should expect Russia, China, France and others to declare war on the US under such circumstances, but it will be a phony war like the UK and French declaration of war after the German invasion of Poland. Fake only for short time. Mass arrests will follow in the US because the Bush administration will finally get the big war it wants.
World War III is starting? Oh god, I still haven't received my check from that Nigerian prince! And where's my viagra?
I wonder what the possible effects of a coordinated disinformation attack of such nature would be, if it managed to deliver said news to a large segment of the world's population (that have access to email). If such an act was coupled with a successful hacking operation on even one of the major news network's websites, serious consequences may erupt.
I simply deleted it, just like all the other spam. About once or twice a month I see a clever newish kind of spam subject. Tell me again why this particular spam meme hit the homepage of /.?
Doesn't spam generally imply that something is being sold? Granted, this unsolicited email could be a way for the spammers to recruit systems to their bot-nets to push out more spam, but there's no indication in the summary that there is any actual attempt to sell something here.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Like their "report phishing" email flag, a similar "report virus/trojan link" button could help a lot of people, tie this to their badware project and testing the reported site (if x number of users report the same mail)
and it could do a lot for cutting down bot traffic targeted at GMail users
takes me 2 seconds to check a mail (they are easy to spot over the Viagra/Penis spam) call it "distributed malware reporting"
nearly everyday i get multiple emails with a provocative title that contains a link leading to a malware distribution point
Google could help their entire userbase in this regard
Not with a bang but a can of luncheon meat.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Fine, I declare the War on Spammerism. Suggestions on where to invade, plz. Other than peoples' inboxes...
I say we take the war to them.
Be sure you filter out any email about Iran to help out Uncle Sam. Oh yeah, buy war bonds and get back to wark.
And all this time, I thought SPAM was what you fried in the skillet and put eggs on before consuming.
My bad.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Since I am one of the many men and women behind the nuclear forces in the US, I for one did not turn the key.
Also let Iran be the first to welcome it's new American overlords.
This gives me a new hope.
Now we can divert some of the resources from the Global War On Terror (GWOT) and fight the Global War Against Spam, Terror, & Erectile Dysfunction (GWASTED).
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
Sell that on Ebay! Right next to religious idol toast and french fries that look like celebrities.
this is is particularly eye catching, given current work events. Since it is different, many people will click on it anyways.
I know some people who I will be sending an email to about this story so they don't click on it.
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WWIII isn't scheduled to begin for another two weeks, and it's going to involve a fake attack on the US by "Iran" (actually the CIA) followed by a massive "retaliatory strike", not an invasion by any US forces. Can't these spammers get anything right?
It's amazing how people can be tricked by something that is on its surface so laughable that it should be dismissed outright!
After all, how could World War III possibly have started when World War II hasn't even ended yet?! Just because there's no obvious troop movements or visible battles doesn't mean that merged ghosts of Churchill and Roosevelt along with their dark ally Zombie Stalin don't yet wage war against the forces of Hitler's Head and the demon-animated armor of Hirohito! No, you can see the effects of this conflict every day in the fluctuations of the price of milk to the record of the Essex cricket team. So don't believe anything you read about some ludicrous World War III until you see the purple flag of the Undying Allies flying over the White House, indicating our inevitable triumph!
After that, though, it's fair game.
The enemies of Democracy are
Jesus H Christ, whoever originates this kind of spam is just colossally stupid, for political reasons. No, its not funny. and yes, I'm a USian.
C|N>K
I heard they've got heat rays and chemical weapons (and other weapons of mass destruction).
it's a blue bright blue Saturday hey hey
what's the payload? just directs to a web site?
I wonder if this has something to do with the penny stock spams...you know, spammers send a bunch of emails promoting a penny stock so the price goes up, then they sell the stock while it's up...
Perhaps, they bought a bunch of oil, sent out a spam about Iran being invaded to get speculators to buy oil, driving the price up, and then cash in?
They finally filled in the ???
1. Buy oil
2. Send out Spam saying Iran has been invaded.
3. Speculators buy on the "news" (formerly ???)
4. Profit!
Slashdot posts article containing the words "World War III" in it's headline, hoping this attracts attention. Once users click to "read more" they are ambushed by trolls masquerading as insightful or funny comments, but in fact containing insidious messages....
Sadly enough WWIII is called the War on Terror, and it has already started since September 11, 2001.
So the next war will be World War IV, which a BBS software package WWIV was named after. :)
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
One if by Spam,
Two if by sea.
and will probably happen. i feel the war drums reverberating as they approach crescendo.
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Crap, that's where I keep all my stuff.
The pill pushing comes after the malware infestation. The choice of topic is one that stirs people up, but this one can has worse effects than the average urban legend or Paris Hilton XXX stuff. Filtering messages by subject text strings is not best practice.
http://xkcd.com/331/
Just a word of thought... Nobody should ever joke about such a theme, neither stupid script kiddies nor spammers.
The world situation today would never surprise me if it ended in a WW 3.
Gosh, I hope no one at the Pentagon or the White House gets this SPAM. If it arrives in an email or it's on CNN then it must be true and they could actually kick off WW-III.
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks."
"I'm afraid, sir, I must ask you for the key, and the recall code. Have you got them handy, sir?"
I started seeing these when the Chinese earthquake happened earlier this year as well. The Outlook 2003 client filter did a surprisingly good job of catching those, and it's catching these as well.
Simple and effective social engineering. Proven to work on dumb people. Profit.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
I think SPAM is best defined as any email you receive that you don't want and was sent without your specific permission. The intent of the email is irrelevant.
I've sent SPAM on behalf of a government agency before (coerced by management after weeks of resistance) and all they wanted to do was give people information they didn't want about lead paint poisoning. AOL blacklisted us as SPAMmers and they were right to do so, even tho their actual motive was just to charge us money to deliver email.
Another good example is that band's mailing list you signed up for at a bar 4 years ago that refuses to stop telling you how some guy you don't know's new band's fucking Alaskan tour is going. I hate that guy.
Spammers use fake headlines to trick people into downloads all the time. I get notices of fake chinese earthquakes like twice a day.
Why is this news?
StoneCypher is Full of BS
Its not a "World war" when only the US and Iran are at war.
Or is that just what 'the man' wants you to think? - sarcasm
Everyone who is a part of a botnet should have their computer confiscated. They are too dumb to be allowed to have one.
We can easily wipe, the machine's hard drive and then install a new OS and you have a computer to give away to schools.
Two problems solved at once: one less idiot on the net and a free computer for a school.
Yeah I've been getting a zillion of these, too. They must have figured that selling Viagra, cheap meds, male organ enhancement products, emails claiming to be from Zimbabwe's lottery agency or some long lost uncle that wants to park a billion bucks in your bank account, and emails claiming to be from hot girls who have a secret crush on you, isn't getting enough people to waste enough time clicking on bogus links to virus-laden scam websites, so now they're using the fact that many people don't know what's happening on their street, let alone in Iran, coupled with word on the street about the tests Iran has been running with all kinds of missiles, coupled with the rumors that Israel is going to blow up Iran that began when Israel flew some planes to Greece a few weeks ago (Greece is approximately the same distance from Israel as Iran), and other nonsense to get people clicking their links. How these spammers manage to avoid getting their face punched in is simply beyond me. It's gonna be like the boy who cried wolf. When something really does blow up, nobody will believe it's actually happening.
McCain/Palin '08. Now THAT's hope and change!
... a long time ago.
Because this dreadful front-page topic is quite frankly the last straw with this place. Goodbye....
I really do not understand this spam thing. I would be surprised if anyone ever buys anything after reading a spam email. Is there really a huge demand for the prescription meds that get 'advertised' in every inbox every day? Has anyone ever been busted for selling them online in spam emails? It must be relatively easy for the perps to be caught, but it does not seem to happen.
Bill gates was going to fix the spam problem, what happen? Nothing. If people hijacked the radio airwaves to sell prescription meds there would be an instant response from the authorities. Why can email communications be allowed to be rendered effectively useless due to sheer volume of spam?
There are vested interests in the spam, and given the amount of money in A/V software I have my suspicions. Time for Linux users to launch a class action against those retards that use that pretend operating system known as Windows. They are the disease and should not be allowed on the interwebs with their inherently unsafe machines and petty hangups.
World War III is just not going to happen anytime soon, at least a non-nuclear war. If it is nuclear than everyone is fucked everywhere and it's a moot point. We may go in and destroy Iran, but that is hardly going to escalate into WWIII. Just look at the countries and continents involved.
Antarctica and the Artic: Hmmmm, last the checked the Intuit peoples and the Penguins did not have some sort of secret alliance and hidden military. Probably not a player in WWIII.
Australia: Kind of remote. Might contribute troops but hardly the location for WWIII or the political force to cause it either.
Greenland: Too busy with awesome blond chicks, high tech data centers, and hot spas. Not interested in causing it and no one is interested in attacking it.
North America - Canada: Highly doubtful. If anything, they will be an innocent bystander that gets hurt when the US gets attacked. Won't start WWIII either.
North America - United States: Oh, the US will be involved. Bet your ass on that. Could start it too most likely if we have another idiot child president. Will it host the war on its own continent? Probably not. Getting troops and equipment to the US is a heck of a lot harder than Red Dawn made it out to be. Candidate for World War III.
North America - Mexico: They have problems of their own right now with the drug cartels and political scandals. Don't have anything military wise capable of waging a strategic war away from their own continent. No one is interested in attacking them, and they don't seem to be interested in attacking anyone else either.
South America - All: Way to involved in their own affairs and completely lack any military infrastructure capable of operations away from their home soil. Other than having a country with a president that likes to verbally attack the US, not much to see here. Who wants to invade and attack them? I dunno either.
Europe: Look at the countries that make up the EU. They don't want to start anything anywhere. They are far more diplomatic about dealing with the middle east than the US is. I doubt they will be invaded and I don't see them causing World War III either. Took a major chill pill after World War II. They are on break, and don't even get me started on the French.
Eastern Europe: Still getting on their feet IMO. Lack the resources or the will to put up much of fight for anything. I know there are some tensions between some east european countries and Russia regarding missile defense, but not very likely to start World War III.
Japan: Too busy making and selling entertainment equipment, cars, and used womens panties. They figured out the best way to wage war was with skyscrapers and advanced technology in products. Next.
Africa: Yeah, right. They are too busy being butt raped for resources by the rest of the world and dealing with chronic disease and gang rapes of women. Next.
South East Asia: Not very likely. I can't see any country being invaded or doing the invading.
North Korea: Will launch a single attack and promptly be totally destroyed within days. Everybody will ignore the rotting corpse and nobody will come to their aid, certainly not China. China would only object if there was a nuclear response to North Korea which is not totally necessary.
India: More interesting. If anything happens they might take the opportunity to attack Pakistan since they just love each other.
Russia: Who are they going to fight? US? China? Not until resources become absolutely critical. We got the missile defense deal going, which does remind me of the Cuban Missile crisis, but actuall
I for one welcome our new prophetic spammer overlords.
Here is the link from the email.
More than likely, it is just a shock type of attention getting mail. However, what if it is state sponsored spam by another country.
Obviously, there are countries out there that would like the US&As reputation damaged, and this may help do that. There are countries with states sponsored hackers, trying to hack US government/Pentagon computers, so why wouldn't they also attempt psychological damage as well?
If you here rumors, over and over again about someones behavior, then you might start to think that the person (or country) might behave that way, and maybe think less of them.
..........FULL STOP.
Well actually, WWIII was the Cold War. WWIV would be the Holy Wars II: Islam strikes back.
Life is not for the lazy.
The only crime for which I would whole-heartedly support the death penalty. Not even child molesters are this low.
Look at the countries that make up the EU. They don't want to start anything anywhere. They are far more diplomatic about dealing with the middle east than the US is. I doubt they will be invaded and I don't see them causing World War III either. Took a major chill pill after World War II. They are on break, and don't even get me started on the French.
More like they were castrated after WW/II by American Troops being stationed throughout Europe to prevent them from starting yet another war. There is no question WW/III would have happened if the United States hadn't taken over nearly all the military operations in Europe.
They are diplomatic because that's all the power they have at this point. This is a double-edged sword; Europe is now nearly powerless to start another war, but they're also close to useless when it comes to helping out when military action is really needed.
(Some younger Europeans will probably be peeved about this post, but they really need to read their own unbelievably bloodthirsty history)
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
California: Will break off from the rest of the US and go hang out with Hawaii. Alaska can come too.
This totally reminds me of the CH34p C1al!s I bought last month:
Spam: "Blast Iran with your man-cannon!"
Reality: America's weaponry malfunctions. All of a sudden "Mission Accomplished!" becomes "I'm sorry baby. This has never happened to me before, I swear!" after which the US throws up all over Iran's bedroom floor and staggers outside to wait for the taxi they forgot to call.
Clearly, John Titor has gotten into the eerily-precognitive spam business.
Oh, come on. Y'all know that a war's coming. We're all fucked.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Russia has been flexing their air mussle lately.
China has an abonence of men, never a sign of peace.
Chine Business, and committee are at odds. The economic part of china is a tiny peace.
Also, don't underestimate the fact that they need oil from the mid-east as well.
Russia would love to attack China. You do know that the US was Russia number 2 enemy during the cld war, right? There number one being China.
There is still a lot of tension along that border.
Russia is having economic problems, and the largest group of growing economic minority in Russia is now Chinese.
hmm, someone that looks different and is an easy target to blame for societies ills. Nothing could possible go wrong~
Resources will be gone quicker then 50 years.
Oil:
Most OPEC nations now inport as much as the export.
WE need to find an addition 30 million barrels a day by 2010 ten just to keep up with demand.
Nobody knows where that's going to come from. They are looking, and looking hard. The worlds energy demands are going up. Most of the OPEC nations are third world countries getting a lot of money. That leads to there own energy needs going through the roof.
If we don't start doing something now, we will be back to 1900 very quickly.
There are a lot of things we can do, this administration keeps hamstring them.
All that said, It seems that no one really wants a big war, including Americans. What they want is enough security that they won't lose their homes, be able to play with there kids during there free time, and eat.
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That actually sounds like a normal night's Coast To Coast AM show.
First the intel team got it wrong with Iraq having WMDs; now they've got it wrong with Iran not having them. Jeesh!
Get on your knees and bow to the East...
First we got the bomb and that was good, 'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
What?
It's all a big conspiracy. The American government has control over media, and are now sending out this "spam". This is to invalidate any mass-emailing alarming people about the new world war. The man is holding us down!!!
Last week CNN reported that the USA has sent insurgents/agents into Iran to spy on and disrupt the Iranians.
You could easily say that WWIII or WWIV (Iraq is WWIII in some peoples minds) has started when the one super power (no not China, that's in two years) invades an adversary next to a country that the USA DID IN FACT INVADE. Of course the Iranains are likely guilty of invading Iraq as well...
thus the cycle of violence and power grabbing continues... duck and cover
My suggestion for Gmail to reduce the amount of spam. In summary, make it much easier for good Samaritans to take down the spammers' websites before the spammer finds a sucker to send money. It basically works on the theory that there are more Samaritans than suckers. Actually it does rather more than that, but this /. venue only calls for the very short summary.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
And the next time wolf is heard
(the third world war!)
we'll just think it's a hoax. Those who want to start a world war
(the wolves)
could desensitize the victims to the news with a series of anonymous emails until the real news is ignored and people don't bother hiding in or even building bunkers. In the fable, at the end there's always a
(war)
wolf.
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
SomePunkAssMailers Piss me off
Funny, that :)
On a more serious note, I wouldn't wonder if the situation with Iran and Iraq plus some other up-and-coming nations with nuclear capability resulted (directly or indirectly) in another cold war (Cold War II?) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War for comparison.
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Take a moment to think objectively (I know, it hurts, doesn't it?) about who would be emotionally charged about the aforementioned subject matter. Then consider a key element in most successful social engineering attacks. Then consider the fairly common commentary here on /. with regards to the people who would be involved in leading said WW3.
Sounds fairly on-target for /. to me. :P
Now it could just be that I watched half of season 3 of Babylon 5 last night, but I'm sure that's completely unrelated...
Suppose that is what this dude was talking about, I wondered if he had lost his mind when I saw the post on his blog:
http://blog.didierstevens.com/2008/07/09/more-fireworks/
> Global War Against Spam, Terror, & Erectile Dysfunction (GWASTED).
Yeah, but then the KDE folks will drop everything and release a kWasted as soon as possible...
It can't be WWIII. We don't declare war anymore. Too many hoops to jump through.
Iran would be YAPA (Yet Another Police Action).
Let's assume the expected oil price minus all the speculation, is per IEA calculations, around $70-80/barrel. If Iran gets attacked, it is likely they will attempt to block the Straits of Hormuz by destroying passing oil tankers. If they succeed, it will at a stroke remove 60% of world oil supply from the market. The shock of that happening would cause the oil price to spike to well over $200/barrel, with devastating consequences to world stock markets.
Speculation has already pushed the price up close to $150/barrel. However, the speculative bubble can be quickly and deliberately popped with the help of a trillion dollar hedge fund around the same time that war breaks out and the Straits get blocked. There would be much less of a surge in the oil price.
Who's to say the big speculators haven't been playing the market for this very purpose, in clever anticipation of upcoming attacks on Iran in September?
The good news for us is that after it is all over, the oil price should fall back around $70-80.
Why oil price increase equals economic trouble (Score: Interesti
There are ways to play the volatility of oil prices without resorting to anything illegal. Also, spammers can't have much of an impact on something as heavily traded as oil. That's why most spam-based pump-n-dump scams operate on thinly traded "penny stocks" that are traded "over the counter". In that market, there might be only a handful of trades a day on a particular issue. If you can convince a few dozen people to buy such a stock, you can move the price.
However, it would not surprise me at all if Iranians, through straw purchasers, had loaded up just prior to the sabre rattling. The ability to fire missiles over the shipping lanes for 40% of the oil, and to control the timing thereof, is a signficantly more potent market mover than spam.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Greenland: Too busy with awesome blond chicks, high tech data centers, and hot spas. Not interested in causing it and no one is interested in attacking it.
Well, nobody was interested in attacking it until you described it like that!
I'm waiting patiently for Slashdot to post the Nigerian folks that always email for the millions they have to give away.
But what if it were true?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
The point is smear and to keep people from sharing genuine feelings so that they will better accept broadcast opinion. People like me, don't want another war of aggression are going to have their email mysteriously vanish but very few will be able to put that together with the "spam news" that only tech people will hear about. Everyone else is just going to associate the risks of such an invasion with crackpot spam and penis pills. Messages passed here, on BBS, Usenet and elsewhere will have been dealt with in advance.
The silence and humiliated objectors will be easy to arrest. With just a little more smear, there will be popular support for it. Welcome to the police state. It will lead to WW3.
I get a lot of "Grow 3 inches, aqk!" (geez- I'm happy with my height now)
,
- and
"you have a really stupid face, aqk!" (this one was evidently meant for someone else)
but -
I have yet to receive this WW3 warning.
OMG! Am I out of the loop?
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.
- aqk
F U
In fact, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. If you pay taxes in the U.S., you don't get to participate in the choice to go to war. You only get to pay for it.
The war with Iran is to try to get even more control over the supply of oil, to make the price go even higher by restricting the supply. Bush and Cheney are oil and weapons investors and they are working to put more money in their pockets.
WW3 == Cold War (1950-1991). History will show the Cold War was full, global scale war. It may not have been completely continuous during that time span but it was a war nonetheless. The 100 years war also was not continuous but it is considered a singular war.
The beginning of WW4 roughly corresponds to Operation Desert Storm but an argument could be made that it began with the bombing of US barracks in Lebanon or with the Iranian hostage crisis.
Somebody set up us the spam!
...or psychological warfare?
You are a complete tosser. The US troops were left in Europe to hold the USSR back, not to prevent another war in Europe. In fact Europe was to be the battleground.
Firstly, if each EU nation decided to turn on the American troops based in their countries, what are the US going to do ? Bomb their own troops ? (probably, going by past events).
Secondly, how much does the US spend on its military every day ? And how much of that is spent to maintain defences on foreign soil.
Seems like the EU gets the best deal financially speaking, and as it's only the US that wants to start wars recently, why should we waste all our cash ?
As for your last point, the USA has only existed for a couple of centuries. Europe has had nation states for thousands of years. And yet the US seems to be intent on catching up in the bloodthirsty stakes. Only you like to keep it at arms length. Let's see, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Turkey, Afghanistan, Korea and Vietnam to mention a few. There is also the interference in Southern American countries, so I would watch where you point that finger.
I suspect attaching this to a non-event like a spam attack won't be read by many, but there is a serious side to this little non-article. Have a look at HR 362 / SR 580, and you'll see that certain individuals are actively planning authorisation to commit the first overt act of war against Iran.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?aid=9377&context=va
http://www.infowars.com/?p=3202
I quote from HR 362: "Whereas nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an authorization of the use of force against Iran"
Well, that's all well and good, but doesn't sound so friendly when later followed by:
"...imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran..."
By gumbo, that sounds pretty much like an act of war to me, folks.
Fred Thompson might be a has-been contender for POTUS, but he's still got clout and buddies ...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/west-urged-to-blockade-iran/2007/06/20/1182019197725.html
From what I can tell, the bill is due for a vote today (Friday) ... HR 362's co-sponsors include 96 House Democrats and 111 House Republicans.
There is no question WW/III would have happened if the United States hadn't taken over nearly all the military operations in Europe.
"No question"? Really? [citation needed].
Perhaps you're thinking about the Morgenthau Plan, which was a primarily economic effort (which only lasted a few years) to "industrially disarm" Germany.
To the best of my knowledge, the primary reason for the stationing of US troops in Europe was to expand the US sphere of influence here (yes, I'm European) as a bulwark against the Soviets -- with whom relations were already beginning to deteriorate at the close of the war.
And no, I can't be bothered to dig up references for that, which I suppose makes me a hypocrite but hey, technically I should be working! :)
Greenland: Too busy with awesome blond chicks, high tech data centers, and hot spas. Not interested in causing it and no one is interested in attacking it.
Since when is Greenland full of blond chicks, data centers and hot spas??
I thought Greenland was full of ice, polar bears and drunk people.. you must be thinking of Finland or something.
"I find your lack of faith disturbing"
I've always been convinced that the best way to fight spam is to fight fire with fire - the old "make love not spam" scheme was great and we need more of that.
It has been proved that DDoS attacks on both spam sources (choke the zombie PCs off the net) and the websites peddling the spamvertised junk works very well. We've seen violent reactions from the spam mafia against smaller outfits attempting such schemes so we know it works and it hurts. That's why we need much more of that. A full all-out war where a huge part of the legitimate internet (including backbone sites with huge bandwidth at its disposal) coordinates and sustains a massive DDoS attack against the spammer sites. It will kick them off the net and it most likely will kick their providers off the net as well (serves them right for providing connectivity to spammers) and if sustained long enough it will drive both spammers and spamvertizers out of business. If stupid people don't get the spams and can't buy the junk, the money goes away and the business collapses. Any startups will get killed before they even sell their first bottle of viagra.
However, Sophos warned that users visiting the webpage and clicking on the 'video player' run the risk of being infected with the Troj/Tibs-UO Trojan and a malicious JavaScript hidden on the website as Mal/ObfJS-AY.
They are enormously expensive to make.
However, like Prius batteries, that expense means it is worth recycling.
Which is less expensive than making new ones.
Duh.
That's no girlfriend, it's a moon!
Snake? Snake?!?!?! Snnnaaaakkkkeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clearly, a slip of a mind. According to his associations, he must have meant Iceland, not Greenland.
"Antarctica and the Artic: Hmmmm, last the checked the Intuit peoples and the Penguins did not have some sort of secret alliance and hidden military. Probably not a player in WWIII."
Yeah, if the Intuit peoples and the Penguins had any kind of "secret alliance," surely we'd have a version of Quicken for Linux by now...
Oh, you meant Inuit? My bad...
China and Russia are big importers of oil from Iran. Does anyone think they will standby as we attack their oil source? Yes our economies are intertwined, but that probably wouldn't stop a country from protecting their oil source.
"No question"? Really? [citation needed].
What, after TWO (count 'em) unbelievably bloody wars, you think the nature of Europe just changed overnight? All the ancient hatred "just went away"? Come on.
And yes, much of the reason was to hold back the Soviets, but make no mistake that there was an undercurrent of making damn sure Europe didn't screw up the world again.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Hopefully it wiped out their computers. Should keep them off the forums long enough for some intelligence to seep back into online discussions...
The US troops were left in Europe to hold the USSR back, not to prevent another war in Europe. In fact Europe was to be the battleground.
It's true that much of the reason was to hold the USSR back (though, let's not forget that Eastern Europe is still Europe), but after two world wars, do you really think the nature of the countries of Europe suddenly turned into peaceful loving countries? Hardly. The United States might've primarily been talking about holding back the USSR from aggressive expansion (which was absolutely a threat), but there was no doubt that Western Europe still had all the old hatreds and desires. You would think they would have learned after WW/I, but they didn't. And they didn't learn after WW/II. They were just forced to learn.
For some bizarre reason, Europe has now styled itself as always having been this mature, peace loving continent. And I'm not going to get into a worthless debate about the wars of the United States in the 20th century that you'll never agree with. It's fashionable to bash the US, so I highly doubt you'll be objective. I'll just say that the wars the US is involved with have had fundamentally different motivations than the wars of Europe.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I got one this morning titled: "Grow a Kangaroo in two weeks!"
I was almost intrigued enough to click on it, but thankfully gmail quoted the message inside : "Tom Cruse crashes a helicopter over the Pacific Ocean, body not yet found..."
While I admit the possibility of both being true excited me extremely, I figure the probability of both having my own kangaroo and Tom Cruse dying within the same day/email to be a little outside the realm of believability.
*sigh* well there is still the chance that my letter to Tom trying convincing him to "liberate" a kangaroo from the zoo will yield one success, and should he fail I will have an excuse for the other...
The only problem is that they can't even keep their servers up.Knowing that it's spam,I clicked the link to find out what crap they put up to support their claim,Last time I tried,FF 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 errored out with Cannot connect to Server. At the very least,they should be sure they can serve out the malware they advertise so gratuitously.
Somebody forgot the tensions between India and China.
...we'll see documentaries about spam as a literary genre, comparing the early "na tural v|agra ci4lis" era to the wild post "World War III" years. Dissertations will be written about 419 in the context of contemporary popular culture. There will also be dissertations (as people tend to get things wrong after a while) about whether prolific spam artist DVD Jon really died from recreational abuse of aspirine generics.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
While China and India are both formidable world powers, they lack the sort of elaborate treaty and alliance structures that drug everyone into WWI and WWII.
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LOL!
BWAHAHHA
I had no idea what you were talking about it for a minute or two. Then BAM!. Yeah... I meant the Inuit people's not the software company :)
Best one I've seen: "You have a big heart ... but a small penis."
... also, I can kill you with my brain.
Is there still a link hosted on http://www.digitalfuntown.com?
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