[54664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Violation of Acceptable Use Policies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lyall)
Sat Jan 11 17:22:12 2003
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:21:38 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Simon Lyall <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301111557420.24356-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Which ISP gets to tell the US Military their connection is being pulled
> because Iraq complained about unsolicited bulk e-mail?
I'll be more interested in seeing what the military does when people start
mass spamming US military addresses (doesn't every us soldier/sailor/airman
have an email address? I seem to remmeber that they do for contact with
relatives).
It would be pretty easy for someone to pay a spammer (probably outside the
US) to mail a million US military addresses with interesting stuff on US
foreign policy, warcrimes regulations and zionist conspiricies. Even
the URLs for a few mainstream European newspapaers' websites might be
useful.
Not to mention the "Anthrax in NYC, News blackout" type of chain letter
spreading panic.
I thought the US tried to avoid using tactics which it was more vulnerable
to? This was originally why there was a ban on assassinations.
ObOperational: Does anyone have a pointer to "war footing" practices?
Things like gaving prepared links to News websites, reduced maintenance,
rumor control and the like?
BTW: New Zealand does have soldiers fighting in Afganistan and had peace
keepers in East Timor so that chances of us being directly targetted
(NZers were killed in a Bali bombing) are good.
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