New Kind of Spam 'Un-Training' Filters?

Zaphod2016 writes to tell us the Wall Street Journal is reporting that email in-boxes are under a new kind of spam attack. This new spam has confused many people due to its lack of advertising, viruses, or request for personal information. One popular theory is that these innocuous blocks of text, often drawn from popular literature, are being used to "un-train" spam filters to allow more malicious spam through in the future.

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[gatkinso]

Ironic that we were trained by Hollywood to think that the Net would attain self awareness in the blink of an eye.

It is happening slowly... the cyber Hive Mind is trying to communicate with us.

I, for one, welcome our new silicon overlords.