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Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters

Posted by timothy on from the take-two-viagra-and-call-nigeria-in-the-a.m. dept.

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)."

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  1. spam feeds us by (TK)Max · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ______
    .-" "-.
    / \
    | | < FROM THIS DISEASED MOUTH
    |, .-. .-. ,| SPREADS THE WORD OF TROLLKORE.
    | )(__/ \__)( | AWRY BE THE WORDS AND OPINIONS
    |/ /\ \| OF THOSE WHO POST HERE. TAKE
    (_ ^^ _) NO HEED OF THEM.>
    \__|IIIIII|__/
    |-\IIIIII/-|
    \ /
    `--------`
    .::::TROLL-KORE FOREVER!!!
    .::::I hate you, I hate your country, and I hate your face.

    1. Re:spam feeds us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I see GNAA this, GNAA that, GNAA here, GNAA there. But I rarely see anything from the above Trollkore or the Cabal of Logged-In Trollers (CLIT).

      Why is this?

      Are the GNAA just more passionate about being trolls? Are they, to be frank, true practitioners of the art of trolling rather than amateurs like the rest?

      We need alternatives to the GNAA. We need more Trollkore and CLIT posts. We need intelligent and funny trolls to take back Slashdot.

  2. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first