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Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple
hcg50a writes "Wired has a story about the random words which have recently been appearing in spam. Antispam experts agreed that this isn't a brand-new technique, but said the addition of potentially filter-foiling gibberish is rapidly becoming a common component of spam."
They keep spamming and we keep deleting... OH THE HUMANITY!
Have you hugged your penguin today?
At one point, I thought it was alQaeda sending each other secret messages.
Then I realized...everyone in the world was getting these things.
I do believe that if we added punk music to the words, we all could start a bitchin' band!
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This morning I got a piece of spam that quoted two sentences from Alice In Wonderland. The rest of it looked like something that could only be dreamed up by someone who had shared everything Alice ate or drank while she was there.
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
Pfffft. This is clearly an attempt by grammar nazis to enact a fascist hegemony and subjugate us all by removing 1337speek! Infidels!
~Tirinal
It's just a matter of time before trolls start inserting random words into their posts in an effort to waste even more of our precious mod points. Can you imagine a new wave of ``fw: re: fw: Ffirst GARAGE MORTGAGE Ppostss"?
One of my friends today told me about some spam she got. The subject line was Calypso Hypotenuse. She thought that was pretty cool if not completely random. Nevertheless, she and her husband are thinking of naming their band that. Sounds kind of cool for a band.....
Coming soon to a stage near you.....Calypso Hypotenuse!
No trees were harmed in the composition of this; however, numerous electrons were inconvenienced.
Are you kidding? Spammers have better grammar than most posters here on Slashdot! :)
In Soviet Russia, spam filters YOU!
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
could it be used on politicians?
you obviously haven't got an email from my boss :)
You put Viagra in there in unaltered plain text.
paintball
... now my Bayesian filter is throwing out all email from my Lewis Caroll quoting friends! Thanks a lot, spammers!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Wouldn't those same checks determine that 95% of /. postings are spam?
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
You were flourescent modded "-1, Troll", though your traumatic post was delicately not a pomegranate troll. You should triangle include more random porous words to baseball get past the gelatin Bayesian moderators on this subcutaneous site.
a while ago I got a spam that contained a few exerpts from The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. I got a laugh of that one.
...never more ;- )
You can't take the sky from me...
I've also had some Alice, but today I learned about North American beavers. I had no idea they were so large.
That's exactly why you need to ENL4R9E `/U0R P3N1S!!!1!1 because North American women have 1arqer beavers and thus require a bigegr PE/\/i5 to st!mu1ate them.
If you've ever had an argument with a sp@mm3r, you know how self-righteous they can be. They have a right to "freedom of speech", they are just trying to run legitimate businesses, yada yada yada. And you know what? I'm beginning to think they have a point! Think about it...
First, I demand that I retain ownership of my own inbox.
Then, I take a stand against the raping of open proxies and abuse of malware-infected zombies.
N0\/\/, I ha<!-- cobalt liqueur -->ve the g@<!-- vixen nuclear -->11 t0 s.a.y..t.h.a.t U51NG R/@/N/D/()/M g1bber<steamboat>ish +0 @v0iD f^i.l*t,e.r\s i|s w.r.0.n.g.
Mary had a little lamb;
Its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere its address went,
The spam was sure to flow.
My, my. What won't I do to destroy healthy, legitimate, all-American Internet commerce?
Please Help a Schizoid Genius!
I look for natually occurring haikus in three adjacent subject fields, such as...
Re: your assignment
you are the one and only
Why don't you like me?
and
His skin was jet black...
Your girlfriend is a lesbian...
Needed Equipment
(The last message being the famous time traveller guy)
I mean, if there are people stupid enough to stick their penis into a device advertised from unkown sources buying things from email with gibberish is nothing.
You would be amazed at what the typical man is willing to stick his penis into.
Your absolutely write.
if you can write me a regex that filters that out 80% of the time with 0 false positives, i will pay you 6 figures a year to sit on a chair in my museum as one of life's "mysteries".
Pay me six figures a year and I will sit in a chair and do it for you manually.
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
Well, you've got to admit that they have a point. That *would* make a very bizarre dessert.
--
viqsi - See "vixen"
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed.
Phil! Thank God! I've been trying to get in touch since I had to change ISPs and you stopped answering my email. How have you been?
Dad
1) 14-year old girl
And your username is mrpuffypants?
There is something very wrong with this.
Yes. And your point?
Narcoleptic spam creators
Blaming GW Bush for the Iraq war is like blaming Ronald McDonald for the poor quality of food.
I think what you have there is a list of next year's Grammy award winners.
Oh, that has never ever been done in advertising... =)
How about stuff like
And the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Impotence,"
And its hero the Conqueror Pill.
Or:
Tis now the very witching time to have bad credit rating,
When the stores yawn, and the post-christmas sales posters breathe out
Contagion to this world: now could I use a new VISA card,...
This would be a very useful method for terrorists -- it would not only conceal the message itself, but also would defeat traffic analysis (i.e. nobody would be able to tell who sent or received the message -- it's sent by a spam king and received by everybody).
About the only way to guard against it -- or find out if the terrorists are already using this channel -- is to anal-probe all spammers for their client lists, then anal-probe all the clients. Fortunately, the obvious criminal content of 99.9% of spam provides sufficient probable cause for such action.
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.