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Spammers Use Holes In Democrats.org Security

Attila Dimedici writes "According to Cloudmark, 419 spammers are using the democrats.org website to relay email and bypass spam filters. 'The abuse, which dates back at least to the beginning of this month, helps evade filters that internet service providers employ to block the messages. ... The messages were sent courtesy of this page, which allows anyone with an internet connection to send emails. The PHP script employs no CAPTCHA or other measure to help ensure there is a real human being behind each email that gets funneled through the service. The service allows messages to be sent to 10 addresses at a time and even provides a way for people to import contacts they have stored in their address book.'"

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  1. Re:OK, come on by Dersaidin · · Score: 0, Troll

    But don't think of the children if *your* the pedophile.

  2. Re:OK, come on by funkatron · · Score: 0, Troll

    At the very least this will give fox news some new material to work with. They need it after their recent run of substandard sketches about the NHS.

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  3. Re:OK, come on by Pax681 · · Score: 0, Troll

    hmmm whenever i think of you after reading your posts i quite often think of pictures like THIS

    a goaste link would have worked too. but that meant having to actually look at that bloody image again

  4. Re:OK, come on by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Troll

    >>>And now you want to refuse to pay into it?

    Why should I pay for a program that claims I'm ineligible to receive benefits? That's like being forced to pay Microsoft for Windows 7, but they never bother to send it to me.

    And also you're confusing Republicans with Libertarians. The "L" party supports repealing everything, but the R party supports safety-net style programs such as Welfare, Food Stamps, Unemployment, SCHIP, et cetera.

    And finally - you missed the point.

    If I can't even get an unemployment check, how am I supposed to get help if I have breast cancer? If that govt program runs like the unemployment program, then I'll fill-out a lengthy time-consuming form just to be told I'm "ineligible" for help. Government-run monopolies are crap. Look at the bankrupt post office and amtrak for obvious examples.

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  5. Re:Not really a hole, more like open barn door by isa-kuruption · · Score: 0, Troll

    An open barn door... is a hole in the wall. Therefore, it's a hole.

    Stop trying to sugar coat the inability of Democrats to secure anything... our nation or their own mail server.

  6. Re:OK, come on by michaelhood · · Score: 0, Troll

    I paid $19,500 in taxes last year. I've done my part and now for the government to turn its back on me is completely unacceptable.

    Um, income taxes aren't to fund unemployment.

  7. Re:Geniuses... by Keen+Anthony · · Score: 0, Troll

    You realize that democrat.org isn't a government organization, right? You realize that it's jump point to the DNC, which is a political party, and not a government organization, right? And you realize that the very people who would take control of the internet away from private networks would not be representatives of a political party, but the military, right? Even for a troll, you're stupid.