05-15-2005, 10:44 PM
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http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/cult...,63806,00.html
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E-mail users around the world got a rude awakening Thursday when a spammer flooded their inboxes with nationalist, borderline-racist propaganda in German.
The messages -- which appeared to blame immigrants, prisoners and welfare recipients for Germany's problems -- hit recipients in California, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands, according to initial reports on antispam mailing lists. Some recipients reported receiving just a few messages, while others reported being overwhelmed by thousands of pieces of the spam.
In comparison to other propaganda that can be found on the Internet, the messages are relatively mild. "Bankruptcy of the health service by foreigners" read the subject line of one message. "What Germany needs is more German children," argued another.
But it wasn't the context of the messages that had some observers troubled. Rather, it was the method by which they were transmitted: through spam zombies.
Zombies are personal computers that have been infected with a virus that allows spammers to control them from a remote location for the purposes of sending out mass quantities of spam. These infected machines allow spammers to send much more e-mail than they could with their own e-mail server. It also makes it harder for authorities to trace the source of the messages.
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