Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site
Spammers are hoping to rouse Obama critics to launch a cyber protest and to download malware onto their PCs in the process.
New spam is circulating that supposedly offers a way for people to use their computers to launch a denial-of-service attack on the Web site of President Obama, researchers said on Tuesday.
The e-mail message says: "If You dont like Obama come here, you can help to ddos his site with your installs."
The e-mail then provides a link to a Web site where visitors are offered money for installing the supposed denial-of-service (DoS) software, according to a blog posting on the site of e-mail security provider Proofpoint.
The spam site also tells visitors to come back and get updated versions of the purported denial of service software if their antivirus program is detecting it as malware and disabling it.
It's not clear whether the software does turn the computer into a DoS attacking zombie, or what it does, if anything. But it would be crazy to expose your computer like that, regardless of your political leanings.
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I think anyone that actually signed up for this, deserves to have their computer turned into a zombie, have the attack tracked back to their IP and then arrested for participating in a DDOS attack.
Socialism happens when the needs of the "demos", the people, are are not being met or they are taken to the cleaners by the for profit health insurance companies.
Obama ran on a platform that included health care reform, the democracy has spoken and the majority want socialized health care.
You two are just showing your complete ignorance. No one is proposing socialized medicine. Learn the definition of socialism and study the proposals. You'll see there's no match there.
In fact, here's a simple little set of graphics that might help you:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/08/not-all-socialist-countries-are-alike.html
*shrug*
Then I hope you never use unemployment benefits, drive on public roads, call the police or fire department...
You have it wrong we got where we are today by allowing corporations to walk all over the backs of hard-working Americans.
If you haven't noticed the US is lagging in education, health care, technology...
Pharmaceutical & insurance companies have been reaming the country for years. Obama campaigned on doing something about it, and people have had enough of being reamed.
There is a difference between demonstrating where the President is speaking and demonstrating while carrying weapons.
Imagine if anti-war protesters should up to a Bush town hall armed, you Reich wing retards would go nuts.
"hill-billy mobs" ... We only have "Marauding-Mumba-Mobs" here in The Colonies.
And, the "Rest-of-the-World" can smirk all they wish in snooty, "amusement and disbelief".
Now, I believe it is not proper to make personal attacks; I hope I have not, because "joe-bloggs-who", and his postings, has done enough in that area. Let's try [I too] to keep it "On-Topic".
Yours truly ... 1st-Generation-100%-Proud-to-be-an-American-Mutt.
Most wealthy countries offer some sort of essential care for their citizens. In this regard the US ranks far down the list. I don't view universal health care as any more socialistic than say Social Security or welfare. Programs like these are necessary in our society. I do find it odd that people are so vocally against healthcare reform while they seem not to mind federal subsidies that amount to corporate welfare. Case in point would be the subsidies offered to the oil companies while they are reaping record profits.
If you would like an overview of what systems are in use around the globe I suggest you read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/opinion/17krugman.html?_r=1&em
Just as bad? Maybe...
Like "To Catch a Preditor". Those idiots were not talking to a 13 year old girl, but they thought they were...
Just as bad? Eh, maybe...
Cody
To the user who wrote the following, "Speaking from my own "hill-billy" point-of-view, socialism has never been an effective government system."
Actually, you're 100% wrong about this. Socialism has proved to be one of the most effective forms of government in the world and it is actually the democratically chosen form of government for many developed nations. Including many of the most successful Western nations . For example, Japan, Britain and Israel all have had socialist system since the end of WWII. France is so socialist that it's almost Communist in many respects, and much of the rest of Europe is either socialist or partially socialist. Even conservative capitalist countries like Germany have semi socialist systems that makes Obama look like a Republican, and the people there are fighting for it to be more socialist.
Just taking a few examples Japan, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, all have socialist health care and all are listed far above the US in terms of life expectancy, childhood health, and health in old age. They also outstrip the US by a mile when it comes to the general happiness of their citizens. Nobody has to worry about bankruptcy if they get getting old or sick, or both. And when was the last time you saw a the British working poor, with their socialist system, having to go to a can bank to feed their children? Millions of Americans are dependant on can banks and charities, millions can't afford private health care, and millions more don't have sufficient health care. For these people socialism would provide them with a better quality of life.
As for the discussion about socio or democrat I like to think that for any moment the is a way to resolve history learns us that.
In some period because on one type of government the people from being happy got to the point of revolution of war for resources or even food in some case in Africa .
So they changed the way to democrat or sociolist dependent on the case but in my opinion you can run a country if you don t learn to combine all the type not only the 2 big ones because in essence not of them are created with bad intentions only for specific need of the people at that moment in the idea of a few that have the role of the voice of the masses . Marx is one of them
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
I do believe we spend more then anyone else though. And if your spending the most to be 37'th, then that is the wrong #1 to be.
Yes, I to believe we spend more money on health. We just need to regulate the cost of getting the treatment, not have a radical overhaul on the system.
Of course, the kind of people who would fall for this aren't running Antivirus anywhere.
They should have explained in a little more detail what a DDOS is so that the people that would think this was a good idea would feel smarter and more informed before making such a dumb choice.
(As in, a little marketing can go a long way, even with a bad idea.)
Aside from that, anybody who voluntarily installs this malware to participate in a DDOS attack is a complete jerk. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of complete jerks.
Healthcare needs major reform. From what i hear first hand, the majority of the anti-reformist, or anti Obamacare-ists, already have a company/government/somebody-else-is-paying version of health care coverage and their major complaints are the costs of the co-pays. The word socialism is thrown around by many who typically use Sweden, Great Britain, Germany, wherever, as an example of great benefits to their people, failing to see how "socialist" those countries are. IIRC I read that the tax rate in Sweden is in the neighborhood of 80%. For that they get cradle to grave healthcare, highways, schools, and all the other things we want, but don't want to pay for.
Wow...
Plus, DDoS attacking Obama's site is a bit of a stupid idea ... It'd only temporarily shut down the site ... and then all the owner's would have to do was uplaod back-ups ... so ...
Bam :D
- by prolifejoanie August 28, 2009 12:40 PM PDT
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(28 Comments)government, failure to protect the weakest among us, etc., any type of malicious interference is
just dead wrong. If we are fighting issues, the fight has to be very clean and very respectful, filled
with the documentation of truth and with strong and firm hearts that adhere to good will. We are
not fighting against the people, we are addressing agenda's that fail to respect the dignity of the
persons. We cannot, will not and must not address these issues by fundamentally disrespecting the people who are in power. We also cannot cave into agendas that are intrisicaly, ethically wrong.
We cannot engage ourselves in changing bad ethics into good through means which are in themselves, unethical.
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