Saturday, June 28, 2008

An Attack That Came Out of the Ether - washingtonpost.com

A reader's forward about those nasty racist emails every Tom, Dick and Harry and all their farmwives have been sending to me. At last a M$M news source, spends the money on a reporter to give us an idea of just how such false propaganda is spread and who authored it.

[excerpt] "While Allen was already an expert on the mechanics of politics, she fast began to learn the mechanics of the Internet. She discovered, for instance, that the recipe for launching a chain e-mail attack is not as simple as typing it up and hitting the send button to a long list of recipients. It takes effort to seed a chain mail that spreads as widely as the Obama missive, explained Jeff Bedser, president of the Internet Crimes Group, a company that helps corporations battle such broadsides. "Lighting that fire, getting something to have momentum, takes work," he said. ..."

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