Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide 154
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times runs an article about the spammers' choice of presidential candidate. From the article: 'According to Secure Computing Corp., spammers were nearly seven times more likely to slap Obama's name in the subject line than McCain's during September. The bulk of Obama's lead in the spam wars came from a massive blitz early in the month.' Secure Computing released additonal numbers for the past weeks, and McCain was able to close the gap in the latest spammers' poll."
Obama is the king on internet. (Score:4, Informative)
Obvious Link (Score:5, Informative)
You too? (Score:2, Informative)
I tried to submit stories on this MONTHS ago, after the Obama campaign somehow got my email and started sending me their constant spam messages. Content directly traced back, emails all about their campaign stops, from "David Plouffe", "Michele Obama", links to their blog entries on the official Obama site, etc... but the headers most DEFINITELY through known spam houses and zombie spam networks.
For some reason, Slashdot wasn't interested that the Obama campaign does this. I'd think it should be a major concern to us - not only is he corrupt, but he's in bed with the spammers. That doesn't bode well for tech issues for us if he gets elected...
Re:Actually what I worry about more (Score:5, Informative)
Oh come on, .be email address for gods sake.
I've gotten plenty of Obama or/vs McCain mails too and I have a
These mails are NOT targeted, they are just sent out at random based on some lousy email-list; So yes, that implies they are coming from some spammer/bot-net.
However, receiving a mail from candidate X does not necessarily mean that X (or his spin-team) asked given spammer to send these out. Jumping to that conclusion is just bad-mouthing IMHO. In fact, I find it much more likely that
* the spammer is simply sending out spam to un-train the filters
* the spammer prefers candidate Y and tries to make X look bad by drowning people in annoying X-spam, whether Y paid given spammer for this or not is impossible for me to find out.
* the message contains some malicious payload
Frankly, I don't care, it's going straight to the recycle bin anyway.
Re:Political interest? (Score:3, Informative)
They probably just scrape headlines and look for common words that are proper nouns (capitalized) hoping that these will attract interest. Obama has had more hype than McCain for the most part.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=obama%2C+mccain&ctab=0&geo=US&geor=all&date=2008&sort=1 [google.com]
Most likely because, like Palin, he entered the national spotlight suddenly and so people aren't as familiar with him as they are with McCain.
Re:Duh! (Score:3, Informative)