[funsec] Big spam ring caught...but has anyone seen a reduction?

2008-10-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/10/15/spam.ring.shutdown.ap/index.htm l CHICAGO (AP) -- E-mail inboxes may be clogged with a little less spam -- at least for a while. Steve Baker announces that the FTC has shut down one of the largest spam operations in the world. Authorities said Tuesday

[funsec] Sky-high tech Nasa engineers try to reboot Hubble telescope

2008-10-15 Thread Juha-Matti Laurio
This type of remote control we don't see every day: Nasa engineers will try today to reboot the $2bn (£1.1bn) Hubble Space Telescope, which has been out of commission for a fortnight after a computer failure. The monitoring staff will attempt to send commands to the craft, orbiting 300 miles

Re: [funsec] Big spam ring caught...but has anyone seen a reduction?

2008-10-15 Thread Bruce Ediger
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Alex Eckelberry wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/10/15/spam.ring.shutdown.ap/index.html ... The spammers sent out billions of e-mails in recent years encouraging people to click through to Web sites that allegedly used false claims to peddle prescription

Re: [funsec] Minister says U.K. forces investigating 'Great' terror plot

2008-10-15 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah
Date sent: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:59:29 +0300 (EEST) From: Juha-Matti Laurio [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Home Office spokesman said many plots, individuals and groups are under investigation,'' but declined to elaborate on the work. When in trouble or in doubt, Run in

[funsec] Intellectual propriety ...

2008-10-15 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah
A gravenstein travesty of justice may be occurring as a certain large corporation tries to appley trademark law to mac its case that a school can't use an age-old symbol of education as its logo. (Ah, the delicious irony of the not-so-long-ago gala case ...)

[funsec] Is Israel's booming high-tech industry a branch of the Mossad?

2008-10-15 Thread Larry Seltzer
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Re: [funsec] Is Israel's booming high-tech industry a branch of the Mossad?

2008-10-15 Thread Gadi Evron
hehehehehehehehehehehehhehehe hehehehehehheheheheheheheheheheheheheh More seriously... Exactly to the same extent US high-tech is CIA, is my best guess. Meaning: job market (people before or after they work there). Defense contractors and projects, etc. In other words, my guess is no.

Re: [funsec] Big spam ring caught...but has anyone seen a reduction?

2008-10-15 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Alex Eckelberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/10/15/spam.ring.shutdown.ap/index.html CHICAGO (AP) -- E-mail inboxes may be clogged with a little less spam -- at least for a while.

Re: [funsec] Big spam ring caught...but has anyone seen a reduction?

2008-10-15 Thread Jason Ross
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Paul Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had VPXL spam in my e-mail box this morning. We won't see a decrease in spam. yep. i tend to share the (pessimistic?) view presented by Cory Doctorow in his When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth story; that is, long after we

Re: [funsec] Is Israel's booming high-tech industry a branch of the Mossad?

2008-10-15 Thread scott
Gadi Evron wrote: hehehehehehehehehehehehhehehe hehehehehehheheheheheheheheheheheheheh More seriously... Exactly to the same extent US high-tech is CIA, is my best guess. Meaning: job market (people before or after they work there). Defense contractors and projects, etc. In other words,