[ale] Spam-related conspiracy theory...

[Preston Boyington]

Is this along the same line of thinking as:


[3 Letter Agency] "We want to tap and track all telephones in the United States."


[Telecom Company] "Wow, that's ambitious.  Do you realize how much that will cost?"


[3 Letter Agency] "Think of a way for the users to pay for it.  Call it a feature."


[Telecom Company] "Hey, we could make the incoming number show up on a little screen.  That way the users would see the originating number and only accept the relevant ones.  You (3 Letter Agency) get an easy to follow list of numbers the user accepted.  We make money by selling it as a cool/must have feature.  And the user foots the bill!"

and I haven't seen the Martix II yet....


Preston


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:00 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Spam-related conspiracy theory...
> 
> 
> I _just_ got back from seeing the Matrix II.
> 
> Now I'm really paranoid.  Sometimes the obvious is, well, obvious.
> 
> I've always been of the opinion that the reason we have such a virus
> problem is the overlapping interests of M$ and Symantec/Norton/McAfee.
> They pay enough access fees to the borg to keep the code holes from
> getting fixed. Then they pay some noteriety and maybe even 
> hard cash to
> some bright malcontents to write the master virus and post it on the
> crack channels. It keeps their cash stream pretty good.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:56, t.darley wrote:
> > Okay, granted it's crackpot. Here goes...
> > 
> > Remember a few years ago, back when Carnivore was such a huge issue?
> > Since then there's been a tremendous surge in spam. Now, we are all
> > acclimated to the notion that all our mail is 
> keyword-filtered at the
> > ISP level. Does anyone protest? Nope, instead it has become 
> a selling
> > point.
> > Do I think the Feds are in any way involved? No, but it's terrific
> > backhanded PR for the mothers.
> > 
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