More malware sightings

This one's a first for me: an eBay phishing email in Spanish, purporting to be from service@escrow-ebay.es, with accompanying fake Spanish website. (For the love of God, if you click on that link, do not attempt to sign in with actual eBay credentials. You probably shouldn't click on it anyway, though it doesn't appear to attempt to do anything evil other than phishing.)

COSIC has quite a few Spaniards; if I run into any of them before I head back to the States next week, I'll run the email by them and see if there are any amusing grammatical mistakes. (I will laugh my ass off if it turns out they're using, say, Mexican Spanish as opposed to Castilian Spanish.)

In other news, Congress does its job; also, know thy enemy

Good news! Although the Senate voted last week to extend the Protect America Act, also known as the warrantless wiretapping bill, last Friday the House decided to go into recess without voting on it, meaning that it's sunsetted as of Friday. W00t!

In case you were wondering, here's the vote record from the Senate. Quite a few of the Senators who voted yes to telecom immunity are up for re-election in 2008; they include:

Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas
Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana
Max Baucus, D-Montana
Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island
Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia
Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama
Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia
Pat Roberts, R-Kansas
Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky
Susan Collins, R-Maine
Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota
Thad Cochran, R-Mississippi
Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi
John Sununu, R-New Hampshire
Elizabeth Dole, R-North Carolina
Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma
Gordon Smith, R-Oregon
Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee
John Cornyn, R-Texas
John Barrasso, R-Wyoming

(Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, is also up for re-election but did not vote.)

If you live in one of these states and you value your legal right to communications privacy, then send a message to these fuckheads this November and don't vote for them. Call them and tell them that you will not be voting for them, and tell them why. (Even if you weren't going to vote for them anyway, let them know that they're fired.)

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to dash off a quick thank-you note to Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein for their nay votes last Tuesday.