The new breed of spear-phishing emails appear to be sent by a close friend or family member, address the victim by name in the subject line or bodyof the message, and include a link to a website controlled by spammers.
It's also, of course, deeply integrated into Windows 8 itself, even taking advantage of a new networking APIs to detect if you're on a metered network and only download the first first 20KB of each messagebody if that's the case.
It calls upon the Bush Administration to convey that message to the Senate at once and urges members of that body to defeat such pernicious initiatives.