View Full Version : The NSA Is Collecting Lots of Spam
DamianTV
10-15-2013, 07:58 PM
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/10/15/1753235/the-nsa-is-collecting-lots-of-spam
"One side effect of the NSA's surveillance program is that a great deal of spam is getting swept up along with the actual communications data. Overwhelming amounts, perhaps. From The Washington Post: '[W]hen one Iranian e-mail address of interest got taken over by spammers ... the Iranian account began sending out bogus messages to its entire address book. ... the spam that wasn't deleted by those recipients kept getting scooped up every time the NSA's gaze passed over them. And as some people had marked the Iranian account as a safe account, additional spam messages continued to stream in, and the NSA likely picked those up, too....Every day from Sept. 11, 2011 to Sept. 24, 2011, the NSA collected somewhere between 2 GB and 117 GB of data concerning this Iranian address."
... but wont do a damn thing to stop any of it!
Elias Graves
10-15-2013, 08:01 PM
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Uriel999
10-15-2013, 08:09 PM
Seriously, NSA if your gonna spy on me...at least block my spam!
Elias Graves
10-15-2013, 08:11 PM
I'm hoping that they'll help that poor Nigerian princess. She's been begging everyone I know for help but nobody will lift a damn finger. It's sad.
GunnyFreedom
10-15-2013, 08:40 PM
LOL truth be told over a decade ago I intentionally increased my (carefully filtered) spam volume for this very purpose...
tangent4ronpaul
10-15-2013, 08:56 PM
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/10/15/1753235/the-nsa-is-collecting-lots-of-spam
... but wont do a damn thing to stop any of it!
Actually, they are working on it:
SCISSORS: How the NSA collects less data
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/how-the-nsa-tried-to-collect-less/518/
-t
Spam is mostly what they are getting from my emails. I've probably received or sent 4 emails in the last month that weren't automated.
eduardo89
10-15-2013, 11:06 PM
Hmm...maybe we should get thousands of people in 'enemy' countries to create a couple dozen emails and have spammers take them over. If it's up to 117GB of spam they're collected EVERY DAY from each email account, maybe their system could be overloaded.
Mini-Me
10-15-2013, 11:44 PM
Hmm...maybe we should get thousands of people in 'enemy' countries to create a couple dozen emails and have spammers take them over. If it's up to 117GB of spam they're collected EVERY DAY from each email account, maybe their system could be overloaded.
It should be very sophisticated spam, heavily individualized for each recipient and containing seemingly [shallow] steganographic content, so the NSA can't afford to use more aggressive spam filtering. ;)
bolil
10-16-2013, 01:04 AM
And what happens when spam incriminates the receiver (three felonies a day)?
Fuck the NSA. National security, sure, if the nation is the cabal of elites.
Lucille
10-16-2013, 09:46 AM
Hmm...maybe we should get thousands of people in 'enemy' countries to create a couple dozen emails and have spammers take them over. If it's up to 117GB of spam they're collected EVERY DAY from each email account, maybe their system could be overloaded.
Help build the haystacks
http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2013/10/15/help-build-the-haystacks/
When I heard that the NSA was not only gobbling up email, but also hacking address books by the millions, my first impulse … well, it wasn’t to laugh.
But Carl-Bear, stepping into the breach, came up with a sweet little monkeywrench (http://www.bussjaeger.org/index.html#nasmonkeywrench). This works because … wait for it … really … seriously the NSA can’t filter spam.
You can filter spam. Your grandmother can filter spam. Thunderbird can filter spam. Everybody and his uncle’s ISP can filter spam. The NSA … not so much.
So go. Monkeywrench away. Instead of abandoning Gmail and Hotmail and all those other snoop-ready services, you can, should you so choose, make the very, very best of them.
The go-to guys in the frickin' world for dealing with computer security issues...
Can't. Filter. Spam.
Backbone providers can filter spam. My ISP filters spam. I can filter spam on my domain. I filter spam on the client side.
But the NSA can't figure out how to do that. So they had to stop surveilling a supposed target...
To save enough hard drive space to snoop on the rest of the Ghu-damned country.
I find this reassuring.
http://www.bussjaeger.org/NSA-three-stooges-sm.jpg
HOLLYWOOD
10-16-2013, 10:09 AM
storage companies are licking their chops... fill up those repositories of digital data... silos of tapes & disks. Sounds like a buy on any of those high corporations with big .gov contratcs. Collecting everything and anything it appears to be the wish of the former DDR secret police's wet dream.
http://williambowles.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/screen_shot_2013-07-09_at_10.32.14_pm.jpg
Projection on the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany
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