It's widely believed that Western governments read (and decrypt) a great deal of Internet mail through systems called Echelon, Carnivore and others.
Presumably they have filters which discard spam. Possibly, due to the existence of this little website, they can no longer ignore spam. Even if spammimic only
gets 2 hits a day; the fact that it's here might force the snoops to process terabytes of spam -- making them spend a little less time on other mails.
So. They spend their time decypting our "private" mail, but the just send the spam to a killfile? And this is supposed to stop that? Perhaps a better thing to do would be to convince spammers to encrypt all of their spam. Then the government would have to decrypt all of that too.
(I'm ignoring the obvious jokes about "processing Spam"...)
The Antarcti.ca? client software currently only works with Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher, because it requires 2-D vector graphics. We will add Netscape and Mozilla support as soon as the World Wide Web Consortium completes the standardization process for SVG.
Did anyone else notice that on the "disputed" ballot from Florida, one of the people running for president (in the "Workers World" party) is named Monica Moorehead?
(If the preceding link doesn't work, try www.cnn.com , as they have the picture up on their web site for the news story.)
>>[insert obligatory beatdown of the exaggerating, stupid media]
The media has always been "encouraged" to exaggerate. If they report a story in such a way as to make it sound more interesting/exciting than it really is, they can sell more [magazines airtime banner-ads]. When greed is the fuel, truth-in-reporting burns up in smoke. The motivation is money, not information dissemination.
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Someone's been watching Aladdin, and not listening to the words...
So. They spend their time decypting our "private" mail, but the just send the spam to a killfile? And this is supposed to stop that? Perhaps a better thing to do would be to convince spammers to encrypt all of their spam. Then the government would have to decrypt all of that too.
(I'm ignoring the obvious jokes about "processing Spam"...)
I mean, hey, everything everyone EVER wanted to know about technology is here. And a little lesson in karma whoring never hurt anyone either.
No, I like Celeste better. Now, how many days will it be before we see a Linux project named "Celeste"?
Sorry!
The Antarcti.ca? client software currently only works with Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher, because it requires 2-D vector graphics. We will add Netscape and Mozilla support as soon as the World Wide Web Consortium completes the standardization process for SVG.
Bleh.
(If the preceding link doesn't work, try www.cnn.com , as they have the picture up on their web site for the news story.)
>>[insert obligatory beatdown of the exaggerating, stupid media]
The media has always been "encouraged" to exaggerate. If they report a story in such a way as to make it sound more interesting/exciting than it really is, they can sell more [magazines airtime banner-ads]. When greed is the fuel, truth-in-reporting burns up in smoke. The motivation is money, not information dissemination.