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Spam Gets Personal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

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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  1. SI, please by rumblin'rabbit · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Maybe they really think that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

    These guys are from Calgary. A gram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure. None of these barbaric, obsolete units of measurement for them.

    Ah poop, I'm going to get modded offtopic again, aren't I?

    1. Re:SI, please by F�an�ro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Ah poop, I'm going to get modded offtopic again, aren't I?

      You would have gotten, if you had not included that last sentence.