I just got spammed by the New Conservatives!
Posted on June 26, 2004
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Yet another reason not to vote for a party that will let government’s role be marginalised by corporate interests that use the same tactics and want less regulations so they can do whatever it takes to make a profit.
See the full text here.
Going by the header it appears as though the spam is from a zombie Windows box at McMaster. This means that Reform/Alliance/New Conservatives, or its supporters, are willing to illegally crack systems using a virus/worm in order to get the propagandist message out to uninformed people who will believe its falsities.
The election has gotten nasty, and has divided the country in to regional partisanship. So much for the 10 years of economic supremacy on the global stage. Since, much like the Liberal in-fighting has brought its party down from perpetual rule, the stage is set for a similar fate for the Canadian economy and our social programs.
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Disclaimer: I don’t follow politics, so I can’t and won’t say whether or not I agree with you. Nor am I defending the Conservatives. I’m just stating the facts.
If you look closer at the header, the email actually comes from 150.176.202.4 which is part of Florida’s Department of Education. I’ve received a bunch of spams identical to yours as well, and they range from machines in the US to Thailand. So, I’m sure the email is being professionally spammed out through zombie botnets and I highly doubt the Conservatives are hacking Windows boxes. If they could/would, they definitely should not be in politics.
And even though it very well could be someone working for the Conservatives behind the spamming, why are we ruling out the possibility that it’s not someone in the public that just doesn’t like the Liberals with a few extra bucks to throw at spamming?
If it were truly a concerned citizen, then there should not be an endorsement for another party. Therefore it is either the party itself or on of its extremest supporters, many of whom are big corporations that would like nothing better than less government regulation in its affairs. These corportations are also the ones that use similar tactics, such as spamming, to push products.
You seem to endorse the Liberals, does that mean you are not a concerned citizen? Even though you may not come out directly and say it, but you can see it in most of your arguments.
Baron is just pointing out the fact that tracking a spam to a source is impossible. Who knows what the spammers motives were? It’s only speculation on our parts.
Anyway it’s all over now. I think the right choice has been made for the good of the country. I’m interested to see how well a minority government works between the parties.
I agree with your comment about the minorty as being the best thing in the current political environment. The friendly Liberal dictatorship has gone too long unchecked.
Personally, as you see from my posts, I never endorsed any party. I see good things in the Liberal, NDP, Green and even the Bloc platforms. I also see bad things in them. I saw very little with the Conservative platform that was in line with my values or what I think make good policy. So my comments were anti-conservative, but not pro-liberal. But in the end, I tried to raise some of the distinct policy differences between the parties (since there were many differences, yet hardly discussed because of the mud slinging) and let whomever stumbled across them here become a little more educated about the election. And in turn, in a better position to make a choice, and the best personal choice, yesterday.