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Project Honey Pot Traps Billionth Spam
EastDakota writes "Project Honey Pot today announced that it had trapped its 1 billionth spammer. To celebrate, the team behind the largest community sourced project tracking online fraud and abuse released a full rundown of statistics on the last five years of spam. Findings include: spam drops 21% on Christmas Day and 32% of New Year's Day; the most spam is sent on Mondays, the least on Saturdays; spammers found at least 956 different ways to spell VIAGRA (e.g., VIAGRA, V1AGRA, V1@GR@, V!AGRA, VIA6RA, etc.) in mail received by the Project; and much more."
1 billionth spammer
So approximately one out of every 7 people on earth is a spammer?
Yes you can. Smith&Wesson released their first debugging tool for it over a century ago. The application remains illegal for some odd reason I don't really understand.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yes you can. Smith&Wesson released their first debugging tool for it over a century ago. The application remains illegal for some odd reason I don't really understand.
Ah yes, the original 'point and click' interface for remotely managing stupid.
And it is illegal now you say? My apologies but from the place I hide to avoid stupid, we don't get many updates on all these new fangled laws.
My favorite theory is that spammers are making money by selling spamming services to suckers, not by actually selling a product in the spam.
I guess there is also some chance that there is some botnet out there set to verify that mail reaches addresses, and it is just running out of control.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Jesus, even spamers have better hours than me
If you total up all the productivity lost to fighting spam and time wasted getting spam, it's probably cheaper to just put the spammers out of business by giving every male on earth free Viagra.
------ Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
Yes you can. Smith&Wesson released their first debugging tool for it over a century ago. The application remains illegal for some odd reason I don't really understand.
Ah yes, the original 'point and click' interface for remotely managing stupid.
And it is illegal now you say? My apologies but from the place I hide to avoid stupid, we don't get many updates on all these new fangled laws.
It probably violates Amazon's one-click patent.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
viagra can be misspelled many ways
in an email message.
all of them not as direct as
going and using this way of
routing the word around filters,
and not even misspelling it
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
They face a lot of STIFF competition!
It's not for debugging, it's for troubleshooting.
Wow cool link. Thanks for that.
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beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master
I wonder how many of those Viagra spelling variations are valid Perl code...
..your link doesn't work :(
Is this a rhetorical question?