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95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus

Posted by kdawson on from the sturgeon's-law-applies dept.

coomaria writes "The HoneyGrid scans 40 million Web sites and 10 million emails, so it was bound to find something interesting. Among the things it found was that a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam." Here is the report's front door; to read the actual report you'll have to give up name, rank, and serial number.

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  1. Re:It might be true, but it's also irrelevent. by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seems that at least as well as anyone can estimate, the current population really is about 5% of the total humans who've ever lived.

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  2. Re:This just in by VoltageX · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry to hijack this, but http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Assets/WSL_ReportQ3Q4FNL.PDF seems to be the direct link to the paper.

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