OH NOES! I Ar Illegals!

[den]

From an email, copy & paste:

"Your internet access is going to get suspended

The Internet Service Provider Consorcium was made to protect the rights of software authors, artists. We conduct regular wiretapping on our networks, to monitor criminal acts.

We are aware of your illegal activities on the internet wich were originating from

You can check the report of your activities in the past 6 month that we have attached. We strongly advise you to stop your activities regarding the illegal downloading of copyrighted material of your internet access will be suspended.

Sincerely
ICS Monitoring Team

Viruses found in the attached files.
The file user-EA49943X-activities.zip: Trojan horse SHeur.CIKH. The attachment was moved to the Virus Vault.

Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.21/1671 - Release Date: 9/14/2008 7:16 AM"



I can think of a few other criminal acts they can monitor.

Comments

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

That's a joke...right? Just what would YOU be doing that's illegal?

The last time I saw a notice like that, it was being served to me...for downloading copies of my own artwork after a leak in storage destroyed the originals.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's a hijack attempt. The log file attached was a trojan.

Plus, wiretapping by non-government groups in Australia is illegal.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Can I move there until our government gets its head out of its ass?

If they're monitoring me, I'm probably going straight to Gitmo with no notice. The last batch of books I bought for writing purposes involved forensice, police procedurals, how to commit crimes and how they're solved...and a book on poisons :D

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that I don't think actual oversight bodies use wiretapping as the term of choice for peeking at what you're doing *online*. *g*