Special Security

Today, for the second time we received a mail (call it spam) from a company named Owen Media Partners. The mail is basically saying that given the fact that they saw a link in our archives pointing at a website similar to their own, they request us to add also their URL in our archives.

I bet they didn't understand what a defacement archive is. Given the fact that in two weeks I got their spam mail twice, we decided to make them happy, and to host a link to their website... by making this news. We are always keen to help proactive people promoting their activities!

Hey, if you didn't realize yet, we are a bit ironical here.

Here is the hilarious text of the email we just received (at least for us, given that zone-h is a cybercrime archive)...

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Subject:Link Request to MacRAE's Blue Book

From: cparent@owen-media.com

Good afternoon,

My name is Chris Parent and I work at a company called Owen Media Partners. We are a publisher of a variety of leading business and industrial sites across North America and Europe.

I have noticed that your organization’s website, http://www.zone-h.org/archive/defacer=McM4nus, is linked to http://www.sccc.org/ which is a chamber of commerce in the U.S. I am writing to you to request that you please also link to our U.S. industrial business site called MacRAE’s Blue Book at http://www.macraesbluebook.com/.

Why link to http://www.macraesbluebook.com/?

· MacRAE’s Blue Book is America’s leading industrial website (comScore, March 2009) with over 33 million annual visitors.

· The site plays a key role in connecting buyers and sellers of industrial products.

· The site features a rich, relevant and searchable database of industrial products and the suppliers, distributors and manufacturers of these products.

More information about us can be viewed at www.macraesbluebook.com/pages/about.cfm.

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Here we go! We published a link to your website. Happy now?

Bloody spammers...