{"id":193827,"date":"2008-11-13T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/free-at-last-thank-god-almighty-we-are-free-at-last\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T01:25:00","slug":"free-at-last-thank-god-almighty-we-are-free-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/free-at-last-thank-god-almighty-we-are-free-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Free at Last! Thank God Almighty, We are Free at Last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/12\/AR2008111200658.html?sid=ST2008111200662&amp;s_pos=\">McColo Corp. has been pulled off the internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s connectivity providers have disconnected it.<\/p>\n<p>So, you don&#8217;t know McColo Corp.?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The servers are operated by McColo Corp., which these experts say has emerged as a major U.S. hosting service for international firms and syndicates that are involved in everything from the remote management of millions of compromised computers to the sale of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and designer goods, fake security products and child pornography via email.<\/p>\n<p>But the company&#8217;s web site was not accessible today, when two Internet providers cut off MoColo&#8217;s connectivity to the Internet, security experts said. Immediately after McColo was unplugged, security companies charted a precipitous drop in spam volumes worldwide. E-mail security firm IronPort said spam levels fell by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">roughly 66 percent<\/span> as of Tuesday evening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" >Hallelujah!!!!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McColo Corp. has been pulled off the internet. It&#8217;s connectivity providers have disconnected it. So, you don&#8217;t know McColo Corp.? The servers are operated by McColo Corp., which these experts say has emerged as a major U.S. hosting service for international firms and syndicates that are involved in everything from the remote management of millions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,997],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}