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I was attacked by Spam from Outer Space

So yesterday at around 3:30pm I got a strange email from LOLLERSKATES (system logfile analysis software which I wrote to warn of unusual activity). It said that Yahoo was blocking a whole ton of email from my server. Why would my server suddenly be sending thousands of emails to Yahoo? So I looked into it and the system was processing a massive amount of email. I instantly knew that my computer was being used to send spam.

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We are paying for Microsoft’s jelly doughnut.

I am putting together a theatrical version of Stanley Kubrick’s classic war film “Full Metal Jacket”. Starring: Microsoft as the fatbody Private Pyle. Russian crackers as Sargeant Hartman rummaging through the footlocker. Your social security number as the jelly doughnut. Windows as the unlocked footlocker. You and I as the rest of the platoon.

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