A Visual History of Spam

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday September 18, 2004 @04:55AM from the but-is-it-art? dept.

Cristiano writes "Microsoft employee Raymond Chen has saved every spam message and virus-laden e-mail he's received at work since 1997 and graphed the spams and viruses to create a cool visual representation of one man's malicious traffic."

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"one man's malicious traffic" by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-18 04:59 · Score: 4, Funny

"one man's malicious traffic"

Sounds like a cool title for a future book about Gill Bates.
...it was a slow day on slashdot... by Fjornir · 2004-09-18 05:01 · Score: 5, Funny

...pretty pictures though, did anyone else try the "magic eye" deal and see what I saw?

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1. Re:...it was a slow day on slashdot... by derrith · 2004-09-18 05:25 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  A sailboat?
  
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2. Re:...it was a slow day on slashdot... by Xzzy · 2004-09-18 05:37 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It's a sailboat!
Good work by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-18 05:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Now he'll get even more spam.
It's the Visual part that scares me by superbondbond · 2004-09-18 05:09 · Score: 5, Funny

I think if I were to actually see what went into Spam I'd never be able to eat it again.
another graph by DuctTape · 2004-09-18 05:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Cristiano writes "Microsoft employee Raymond Chen has saved every spam message and virus-laden e-mail he's received at work since 1997 and graphed the spams and viruses to create a cool visual representation of one man's malicious traffic."
I'd like to have saved every BSOD that I've received since 1997 and make a cool visual representation, too, but the system crashes each time I get one... so much for data retention.
DT

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This has been done before by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · 2004-09-18 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

THIS site even has an animation of the propagation of spam.
Irony by thrills33ker · 2004-09-18 05:51 · Score: 4, Funny

A Microsoft employee keeps a record of his ever-increasing levels of spam and viruses?

Aargh! My irony meter has gone off the scale!!
2002 was a big year for spam by Basehart · 2004-09-18 07:44 · Score: 3, Funny

2002 must be the year when Florida got connected to the internet.