_________ SWAT MAGAZINE ISSUE THIRTEEN: JANUARY 1999 __________ / \___________________________________________/ \ / .Mailbombing: the smart way. \ / By Cyborg \ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Before I get this file started I would like to say that I do not approve of mailbombing. Unlike most people I actually mean this but if you're going to do something wrong then at least do it right. Now on to the good stuff. We all know what mailbombs are, a chance for you to release the malice inside of you by sending 25,000 STMP packets to lamer@aol.com with something along the line of AOL sucks ass! in the subject line. But I hope you also know that you are breaking the law. However its too easy to get caught. There's an easier way. One day when I was bored on the internet I sent an e-mail to Bill Clinton: president@whitehouse.gov and I got back an automated message thanking me for e-mailing the white house. It was a big e-mail, 5k long and that got me thinking. Say someone was to send a mailbomb to lamer@aol.com consiting of 200 messages all 1k long. That's the same as sending 40 e-mails all 5k long. So the next time you send someone a mailbomb don't send 200 messages to lamer@aol.com, send 40 messages to the automated president@whitehouse.gov from lamer@aol.com. Sending 40 mails to an address that probably gets 200 mails a day is not a crime. Don't you just love using the US Government to mailbomb people for you? Make them work for you instead of you working for them. Note: If some clever joe decides he wants to send lamer@aol.com 10,000 e-mails and so thinks that its elite to send 2,000 e-mails to the US president then I'm afraid he's in for a big shock. If you are interested in hacking, phreaking, programming or pirating then e-mail me or visit my web page. zengus@yahoo.com http://cyborg.justice.freeservers.com