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FC: Pentagon .mil computer reportedly being used for porn spam


From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:59:19 -0400

Previous Politech messages:

"Military frets about sensitive .mil info on Internet"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03875.html

and

"John Gilmore on military hypocrisy about .mil info online"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03885.html

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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 01:37:18 -0700
To: declan () well com
From: "Brian W. Antoine" <briana () nas-kan org>
Subject: Re: FC: Military frets about sensitive .mil info on Internet

At 11:41 PM 8/11/02, you wrote:
>I'm surprised the article didn't complain about John Young's efforts:
>http://cryptome.org/naic-eyeball.htm

  We're talking about our military?  Our military trying to secure what
information is available on their computers?  Our military that can't
run a secure computer no matter how hard they try?

  Here is yet another porn spam I received within the last week, get a
load of the system it was relayed through, using a web server exploit that
has been well documented for at least a year ...

Return-Path: <nobody () prospero pint pentagon mil>
Received: from prospero.pint.pentagon.mil ([140.185.53.2])
        by pointer.dogear.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7B15tl28709
        for <xxxxxx () dogear com>; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:05:56 -0700
Received: (from nobody@localhost)
        by prospero.pint.pentagon.mil (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) id VAA00779;
        Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:02:07 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:02:07 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200208110102.VAA00779 () prospero pint pentagon mil>
To: xxxxxxx
From: DailyEmail () Free com ()
Subject: Sup
Status:

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by (DailyEmail () Free com) on Saturday, August 10, 2002 at 21:02:07
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: OR CHECK http://www.koolpages.com/teenshot

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