Friday, May 12, 2017

Editor's Note

Someone decided to launch a massive spam attack on the comments section for this blog. Getting 1,000 email notifications in the inbox of my email account is not what I want to see. Because of this attack I have had to put restrictions on the comments thread. I am really peeved off with this .... but I do not have a choice right now. It looks like the one who is spamming me is from Saudi Arabia. I am going to treat this a temporary thing, and I can only hope that this spammer will go somewhere else in the next few hours. I will be lifting the restrictions later tonight .... and hope that it will be the last that I have seen of this person.

Update 19:33 EST: Blogging will be returning later tonight. This spam attack has given me the excuse to purge my computers and reinstall my back-ups. Best to be safe than sorry.
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19 comments:

Anonymous said...

terrorists

May 12, 2017 at 6:48 PM
War News Updates Editor said...

I have about 2000 emails with this message.

eyad ammar has left a new comment on your post "German Chancellor Merkel: Germany Will Stands By I...":

http://emcmee.jimdo.com/
http://emcmee.jimdo.com/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%AB-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6/ شركة نقل عفش بالرياض
http://emcmee.jimdo.com/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81/ شركة نقل عفش بالطائف
http://emcmee.jimdo.com/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85/ شركة نقل عفش بالدمام
http://emcmee.jimdo.com/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%AB-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A9/ شركة نقل عفش بجدة
http://emcmee.jimdo.com/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9/ شركة نقل عفش بالمدينة المنورة

May 12, 2017 at 6:53 PM
Hans Persson said...

But... Why...??

May 12, 2017 at 6:56 PM
Jay Farquharson said...

Single or small chain spam attacks, are ususally there to generate "clicks" that distribute malware,

Massive spam attacks via comments are ususally done to prevent a page from being loaded and read.

May 12, 2017 at 7:00 PM
War News Updates Editor said...

I agree Hans, :)
The website http://emcmee.jimdo.com/ sells something called Zurich Bikes. Fortunately .... the restrictions that I have put on have killed this spam attack. Now I have to delete about 2,200 emails.

May 12, 2017 at 7:02 PM
War News Updates Editor said...

You are right Jay.
This span attack is targeting specific posts from this week, and it has crippled the page from being properly loaded and read. I am deleting these spam comments as quickly as I can.

May 12, 2017 at 7:08 PM
Rhaegar said...

Funny coincidence that he decided to launch the attack this day which
had the giant ransomware attack that affected several companies and some essensial instastructure in around 70-90 countries. Hope that it will be a good wakeup call to secure all essential instrastrucutre better and not rely on old datasystems from the 70s.

May 12, 2017 at 7:19 PM
War News Updates Editor said...

Correct Rhaegar. There is a massive global ransomware attack that is happening right now. But in my case, it is just someone wanting to block the loading of certain posts.

May 12, 2017 at 7:22 PM
Jay Farquharson said...

And the Ransomware attacks are using the Wikileak'ed NSA hacks,

Gotta love all those people so willing to trade liberty and freedom for illusions of security all based on irrational fear.

May 12, 2017 at 8:19 PM
B.Poster said...

"Irratiibal fear." "The Russians are coming!!! "The Russians are coming!!! The Russians are coming!!" IF the Russians are coming, its only because someone foolishly chose to expand NATO to Russia's borders, foolishly chose to intervene in Serbia, foolishly chose to support the corrupt, chump Ukrainian government, pushed a made up meme about Russian "collusion" during the election when any influence the Russians could have would only be a drop in the bucket compared to others, and I could go on.

I'd suggest leadership start acting like responsible adults. Stop doing things to go out of the way to fan the flames of Cold War 2 a war we DO NOT need and are unlkkely to be able to prosecute effectively. Start doing things like looking for ways to work with Russia in areas of common interests. Start small at first and perhaps negotiate an end to Cold War 2.

This requires adult like behavior. Anti-Russian paranoia is not going to help. The Russians had nothing to do with the Wikileaks hacks. At least nothing that's been proven. I and likely most people around the world have learned valuable lessons in how untrustworthy US "Intelligence" is. At a minimum, all sources and methods will need to be made public. By pushing Russian conspiracy theories without proof we've become the laughingstock of the world.

May 12, 2017 at 9:28 PM
Jay Farquharson said...

LMFAO,

In the aftermath of the 9/11 atfacks that killed less people in a year than lighting strikes,

Out of Islamophobia, many in the West elected to not only open up all forms of global communications up to massive, intrusive surveillance, but they agreed with minimal oversight, minimal regulation, and tanking the "gloves off" in allowing the National Security State to hack and crack everything.

LMFAO, it's not even recent history and still you get it all wrong.

May 12, 2017 at 10:37 PM
B.Poster said...

Jay,

If you believe the reaction to the attacks of 9/11 was an over reaction which it well could have been then the reaction to so called Russian interference would seem to be an even bigger over reaction.

May 12, 2017 at 10:57 PM
Jay Farquharson said...

Let's see, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, millions dead, hundreds of thousands still dying,every year, no end in sight,

Al Quida and it's clones, spinoff's and offshoots, going from a couple hundred in half a dozen camps to over 150,000 deploying combined Infantry/Armour battalions controlling millions of square miles of territory,

Global loss of all aspects of freedoms,

Global Economic meltdown,

VS, so far, 4 Investigations, 98 subpoenas, a few hundred tons of newsprint and ink, and millions of electrons dying in vain on the Intertubes,

and a handfull of dead Russians.

LMFAO.

May 12, 2017 at 11:17 PM
B.Poster said...

Jay,

The threat posed by Islamic terrorists and the nations who support them has been consistently under estimated and our own abilities both militarily and to affect change otherwise has been cobsistently over estimated. Unfortunately we continue to make the same mistakes stuck in a cycle doomed to repeat the same errors over and over again.

It seems obvious we are ill-equipped to handle the problem of Islamic terrorism. Since we are ill-equipped to handle Islamic terrorism, there seems little prospect of confronting even tougher potential foes such as the likes of Russia and China.

It seems even more apparent we really do need to end Cold War 2 and avoid conflict with China. On the China front, baby steps seem to have been made in the right dirrction, however, much can still go wrong. Now, if we can get going in the right direction on Russia, this would be good.

To suggest that anti-Russian hysteria is unhelpful in this regard is an understatement to say the least and all this started because a certain spoiled brat and/or psychopath can't or won't come to terms with why they lost an election. If the diplomacy is handled properly we might even be able to enlist their help in dealing with Islamic terrorists and the nations who support them. Now this I think would be a vast improvement over the current situation.

May 13, 2017 at 12:05 AM
fazman said...

The u.s intervention in serbia was righteous and just.

May 13, 2017 at 2:54 AM
Jay Farquharson said...

LMFAO,

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/formerlyfundie/90-innocent-how-america-is-creating-terrorists-faster-than-we-can-kill-them/

May 13, 2017 at 3:08 AM
Jay Farquharson said...

LMFAO

May 13, 2017 at 3:46 AM
Hans Persson said...

Its impossible to win a war today. Get used to terrorism.

May 13, 2017 at 9:51 AM
Jay Farquharson said...

LMFAO

Clausewitz identified the three main requirements to "win" a war.

The West, in it's Global War of Terror, only tries to do one.

May 13, 2017 at 1:13 PM

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