Spam Gets Personal

Vitaly Friedman writes "Two researchers demonstrate how much more effective spam could become if its authors used basic data-mining to personalize their messages. From the article: "North America, though no longer the world leader in spam production, still has serious potted meat problems. A recent research paper out of the University of Calgary suggests that those problems could soon be a lot worse if spam creators adopt a few simple data-mining procedures.""

Comments

Why are we helping spammer?

[MrBulwark]

And while we are at it, lets publish a paper telling people how to do a better job money laundering, or new way to smuggle cocain into the country.

Re:What else do they have?

[MadUndergrad]

Really, I think papers on how to pick up girls are would be greatly appreciated by the greater /. community. In fact, it seems only natural that nerds would use papers and research to figure this sort of thing out. It's either that or Vader masks.