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.""

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Dupe.

[khasim]

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/28/181 1210

And not very accurate the first time, either. Since Mom probably isn't going to be sending me v1agr4 ads, it will be easy to find and clean the infected machines.