[DeTomaso] Spammer identified

[boyd casey]

 Your right I had noticed that there were various 'senders" of the
offending e-mail but I had not noticed that the headers had been altered.
Aside from the premise of this being caused by a "self aware " spambot! The
first shot in the future of warfare "Cyber warfare" was fired when the
Stuxnet computer worm disabled / damaged the Iranian centrifuges used to
refine uranium. It is a highly sophisticated worm that targets specific
Siemens industrial software and equipment. It reads just like a Clancy
novel it is so ingenious that it is mind boggling. It is also quite
frightening because a similar attack could cause a reactor meltdown as
easily as it damaged the Iranian centrifuges. Anyone who hasn't followed
this story needs to check it out it is really amazing.
Boyd
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Cullen McCann <cmccann1972 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Think that was the premise behind the Terminator series. Skynet became
> "self
> aware"....and realized that the human race posed a legitimate threat to the
> planet....etc.
>
> Lol. Admittedly fascinating. Very science fiction in the 80s', but not so
> far fetched now...   ;)
>
> Cullen
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> On
> Behalf Of Sean Korb
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 10:52 AM
> To: List Pantera
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Spammer identified
>
> This is veering pretty far afield, but there is a sci-fi writer I like
> Charles Stross, and there is a lot of discussion about the "singularity"
> where a machine becomes conscious and communicative (I assume by deciding
> to
> "kill all humans" but that's just me).  It is thought that this will be
> inadvertent, a consequence of something else that requires a lot of
> computer
> smarts to figure out.
>
> So spambots get smarter, and defenses get smarter.  We'll always have
> spambots because... well, they work.  Cheap to compromise a mass of
> computers, hard to catch the perp.  So this will continuously escalate
> until...
>
> Singularity.
>
> The problem is, will it be the intelligent spambot, or the intelligent
> defender?  Or will they join like in the movie Colossus?
>
> Just sayin...
>
>
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