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Rehovot's Software Company Makes Political Spam, Tact Ltd. General Manager Confirms the Company is a Plot of Political Activism
Today I received a piece of spam in my business mail-box that talks about Ehud Barak (former IDF Chief of Staff and Prime Minister that led the disastrous withdrawal from Lebanon that fomented Intifada II then Lebanese War II).
Several months ago, we migrated our mail services to Google Applications and we've been extremely satisfied. Our qmail server was rock-solid for 5 years (no one ever won Dan Bernstein's bet on hacking qmail) and unlike Microsoft Exchange, our cost of ownership was zero. The problem was that Spam Assassin could not keep up; so unlike the famous Tareytown smokers ad, I decided it's better to switch than fight.
Google mail is almost perfect with spam filtering and the Ehud Barak spam popped up on my radar screen during a random check in the spam folder.
You can probably guess that my politics lean towards having Barak remain in the private sector, but I have a problem with spam in general and spam sent out from a legitimate business in particular.
This particular piece of political spam came from a hi-tech company in Rehovot (the mail was signed Tact Ltd. Rehovot). The mail itself reminds us that Ehud Barak is still under investigation for his involvement in illegal campaign fund-raising and quotes an article in the Israeli Internet portal Walla!.
I wonder if Dr. Rafi Amit, the General manager of this apparently successful Israeli software outsourcing company Tact Systems , is aware of the political activism in his company. Whether the mail was sanctioned by the executive management of the company or not, it's still spam.
From an image/corporate reputation perspective, it looks bad.
From a data security perspective, it reveals an internal vulnerability (sending out spam from inside the company means that they don't do any extrusion detection at all).
From a security procedure perspective, I suspect they don't have an AUP.
Tact Ltd. is a company who do QA and system testing projects in private sector and defense industry and they should know better. They should definitely encourage (and sponsor) involvement and political activism for causes they support, but any corporate AUP (acceptable usage policy) should mandate that extra-curricular / political activity needs to be done on the employees time and dime.
Source: Ehud Barak, spam and political activism. Israeli Software (4 June 2007) [FullText]
Several months ago, we migrated our mail services to Google Applications and we've been extremely satisfied. Our qmail server was rock-solid for 5 years (no one ever won Dan Bernstein's bet on hacking qmail) and unlike Microsoft Exchange, our cost of ownership was zero. The problem was that Spam Assassin could not keep up; so unlike the famous Tareytown smokers ad, I decided it's better to switch than fight.
Google mail is almost perfect with spam filtering and the Ehud Barak spam popped up on my radar screen during a random check in the spam folder.
You can probably guess that my politics lean towards having Barak remain in the private sector, but I have a problem with spam in general and spam sent out from a legitimate business in particular.
This particular piece of political spam came from a hi-tech company in Rehovot (the mail was signed Tact Ltd. Rehovot). The mail itself reminds us that Ehud Barak is still under investigation for his involvement in illegal campaign fund-raising and quotes an article in the Israeli Internet portal Walla!.
I wonder if Dr. Rafi Amit, the General manager of this apparently successful Israeli software outsourcing company Tact Systems , is aware of the political activism in his company. Whether the mail was sanctioned by the executive management of the company or not, it's still spam.
From an image/corporate reputation perspective, it looks bad.
From a data security perspective, it reveals an internal vulnerability (sending out spam from inside the company means that they don't do any extrusion detection at all).
From a security procedure perspective, I suspect they don't have an AUP.
Tact Ltd. is a company who do QA and system testing projects in private sector and defense industry and they should know better. They should definitely encourage (and sponsor) involvement and political activism for causes they support, but any corporate AUP (acceptable usage policy) should mandate that extra-curricular / political activity needs to be done on the employees time and dime.
Source: Ehud Barak, spam and political activism. Israeli Software (4 June 2007) [FullText]
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