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Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters
moggyf points to a BBC article about how spam can be successfully tweaked to slip past current filtering methods, excerpting "To finding out how to beat the filters Mr Graham-Cumming sent himself the same message 10,000 times but to each one added a fixed number of random words. When a message got through he trained an 'evil' filter that helped to tune the perfect collection of additional words."
iluvspam adds "It's an interview with POPFile author John Graham-Cumming that summarizes his talk at the recent MIT Spam Conference. You can still listen to the technical details here (choose the Afternoon 1 session, he starts about 75 minutes in)."
SO the ultimate spam protection mechanism would be an infinite number of monkeys type my list of words to associate w/ spam. :)
Yep, I never spell check.
More incorrect spellings can be found he
I will pay 1000$ to anyone who seeks out and beats the living daylights out of a spammer. With as many pics on the web as possible for posterity.
Screw these filters and shit. Start creaming spammers worldwide and they'll think twice about it.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
that said while your sig reads like a nigerian scam
I dont give out my work address to anyone .. and it's not because i fear spam.. :)
>The only way to protect yourself is to not give out your address. Period.
:-)
Ummm.... then what good is it?
Do you just e-mail yourself?
...if his surname weren't Cumming. At least his first name isn't Richard.
Who do you get to be an expert to tell you something's not obvious? The least insightful person you can find? -J Roberts
Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters
That description sounds too noble for an activity like this. More appropriate headlines would be Making Spam Slick as Owlshit or Infusing Spam with Satanic Strength.
The coolest voice ever.
I used to know a guy who'd send a segmentation fault to people he didn't want sending email to his university account. (This was when AOL was just starting) He eventually lost his account for a while, turns out the network admins didn't find it as ammusing as we did. But it was pretty funny.
That's OK, 'cause any may you would have sent using that From: Graham-Cumming@hotmail.com header would have been filtered away anyway by the recipient's SPAM filters.
Naw, his name would have to be Cumm1ng or C.u.m.m.i.n.g to be filtered. ;)
This post made with the Dvorak layout.
"Friends don't let friends use QWERTY"
Here's the simple solution. Simply have your friends send you mail with "hot viagra teen sex mortgage" in the subject. Since all the spam is getting past the filters into the inbox, all of your real mail will be waiting for you in your junk mail folder
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but how do you combat the spammer?
1. Find spammer
2. Kill spammer
3. Become hero of the interweb
4. Write book from prison
5. ???
6. Profit!
Your question is exactly why the death penalty belongs on the street, not in prison.
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
"Programming today is a race between software engineers, trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe, trying to build bigger and better idiots."
I have discovered a truly marvelous
Spamming is not only irritating, it's pointless. Who is paying these people to spam us? Are people actually buying penis enlarging pills and patches, herbal viagra, mortgage refinancing, credit repair kits, or any of that stuff? Enough to put millions of dollars a month into the hands of career spammers?
SHH!! If people paying for these things start looking carefully to see if they actually get a return on their investment, all sort of lunacy may follow:
- Companies may start asking: Let's see, I spend $1 million on making the ad, and another $1 million for a 30-second spot on the superbowl - did I really get $2 million more PROFIT (not sales) that I wouldn't have gotten anyway without it?
- Producers might realize that there are hundreds and thousands of extremely talented actors willing to work for salaries many orders of magnitude less than big Hollywood stars, are we really getting that many more people walking into a movie BECAUSE it's starring the Governator or Julia Roberts?
- Sports franchises might wonder why they are paying $40 million in salaries for 5 guys to play basketball to (if you take out the advertising revenue, above) sell 15,000 seats that are probably worth about $15 each in net profit - that's a measly $225,000 per soldout game. 100 games later, they've paid for about half the team.
- People might start wondering why they are paying $8 to go to a movie, or $100 for an event (concert/sport) ticket, when there are about 10,000 other things better that they could do with their lives.
That's crazy talk, man.
-Styopa
Fortunately, this story has a happy ending! As I wrote this message, some polite people in West Africa contacted me and I think they are going to get me out of this financial mess.
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
You mean that we should actually test our code?
Against real data?
Aren't you worried that could start some kind of
scary precedent?
dtg
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.------R. N. Marley
He posted his "free-pass" words on the net.
Never mind that his last name is "Cumming".
I believe step 5 should be "publish book" in this case.