{"id":658,"date":"2008-10-06T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-10-06T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T15:06:43","slug":"sarah-palin-barack-obama-tops-in-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/sarah-palin-barack-obama-tops-in-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin &#038; Barack Obama: Tops In Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secure Computing released a <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/news\/zd\/20081003\/tc_zd\/232721\" target=\"_blank\">new report<\/a> on spam trends Friday, among the reports findings, spam citing <span id=\"lw_1223303678_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Gov. Sarah Palin<\/span> topped her opponent, <span id=\"lw_1223303678_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Sen. Joe Biden<\/span>, by a ratio of 5 to 4 during the month of September.<\/p>\n<p>In a top-of-the-ticket comparison, spam using the name of <span id=\"lw_1223303678_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Sen. Barack Obama<\/span> easily topped the use of his opponent, <span id=\"lw_1223303678_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Sen. John McCain<\/span>, by 6 to 1.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure this a race either candidate wants to win though. It just goes show that spammers are continuing to exploit current events to get their message out.<\/p>\n<p>The full report titled &#8220;Major Spam Trends, October 2008&#8221; is available from Secure Computing&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securecomputing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secure Computing released a new report on spam trends Friday, among the reports findings, spam citing Gov. Sarah Palin topped her opponent, Sen. Joe Biden, by a ratio of 5 to 4 during the month of September. In a top-of-the-ticket comparison, spam using the name of Sen. Barack Obama easily topped the use of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,7],"tags":[57,84,40,83,201],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-internet","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-mccain","tag-sarah-palin","tag-spam","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-aC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":449,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/24\/dear-mr-obama\/","url_meta":{"origin":658,"position":0},"title":"Dear Mr. Obama&#8230;","author":"Jeff","date":"September 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A message from a military wife. 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