Comments on: Fighting spam with captured botnet hosts http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/fighting-spam-with-c.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 20:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Ruadh Eoin http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/fighting-spam-with-c.html#comment-696585 Ruadh Eoin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-696585 The New Scientist article is a little behind the times: these teams published their work at the message security conferences a year ago (and presumably the research started considerably before that). I'm fairly certain all the big antispam players are already using techniques similar to theirs. And yes, in the default-allow, enumerate-badness (thanks, Marcus Ranum) world of spam filtering, sixty seconds is an eternity. The New Scientist article is a little behind the times: these teams published their work at the message security conferences a year ago (and presumably the research started considerably before that). I’m fairly certain all the big antispam players are already using techniques similar to theirs.

And yes, in the default-allow, enumerate-badness (thanks, Marcus Ranum) world of spam filtering, sixty seconds is an eternity.

]]> By: han http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/fighting-spam-with-c.html#comment-696596 han Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-696596 I have long suspected that the battle between spammers and anti-spammers is how we will one day get computer programs capable of writing and understanding natural language. Soon the need for humans behind them will cease and the programs can continue fighting each other all over the internets on their own. I have long suspected that the battle between spammers and anti-spammers is how we will one day get computer programs capable of writing and understanding natural language. Soon the need for humans behind them will cease and the programs can continue fighting each other all over the internets on their own.

]]> By: Baldhead http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/fighting-spam-with-c.html#comment-696615 Baldhead Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-696615 so.. like a vaccine? so.. like a vaccine?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/fighting-spam-with-c.html#comment-696426 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-696426 Ad Hoc Graiglist for it is the Chicken before the Egg. Captcha=Yolk extracts... Figure. Ad Hoc Graiglist for it is the Chicken before the Egg.

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]]> By: SkullHyphy http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/fighting-spam-with-c.html#comment-696941 SkullHyphy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-696941 They weren't doing this before??? They weren’t doing this before???

]]> By: imag http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/fighting-spam-with-c.html#comment-696516 imag Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-696516 The spam/antispam wars never cease to amaze me. The fact that even a 1-minute delay still allows immense amounts of spam to get through is sad, but also somehow impressive. This measure to fight them is equally impressive. ...and now I have to read this novella, the prime plot of which also seems to be pretty interesting. The spam/antispam wars never cease to amaze me. The fact that even a 1-minute delay still allows immense amounts of spam to get through is sad, but also somehow impressive. This measure to fight them is equally impressive.

…and now I have to read this novella, the prime plot of which also seems to be pretty interesting.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/fighting-spam-with-c.html#comment-697052 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-697052 Isn't this just another basic application of a honeypot? Isn’t this just another basic application of a honeypot?

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