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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Look who funded the paper!

[daknapp]

The paper was funded by the Canadian NSERC (the equivalent of the NSF in the US). Aren't you Canadians proud that your tax dollars are going to research in how to make spam more noxious?