{"id":111,"date":"2006-12-07T10:42:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2006-12-07T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T14:42:48","slug":"spam-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/spam-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/06\/technology\/06spam.html?em&#038;ex=1165640400&#038;en=f1723f2c08d618f7&#038;ei=5087%0A\">this article in NYTimes<\/a> &#8212; login required]<br \/>\nSpam is back &#8230;   Worldwide spam volumes have doubled from last year &#8230;  unsolicited junk mail now accounts for <strong>more than 9 of every 10 e-mail messages<\/strong> &#8230; Spammers [succeed] by conscripting vast networks of computers belonging to users who unknowingly downloaded viruses and other rogue programs. The infected computers begin sending out spam <em>without the knowledge of their owners<\/em> &#8230; <strong>250,000 new computers are captured and added to these spam \u201cbotnets\u201d each day.<\/strong><br \/>\n(Hysterical but not unreasonable emphasis mine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[from this article in NYTimes &#8212; login required] Spam is back &#8230; Worldwide spam volumes have doubled from last year &#8230; unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than 9 of every 10 e-mail messages &#8230; Spammers [succeed] by conscripting vast networks of computers belonging to users who unknowingly downloaded viruses and other rogue programs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}