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I don't know about you, but lately I've been getting a lot of spam. None of the messages are large, but I seem to get about one megabyte a month of the stuff.
Originally it was lots of stuff offering me all kinds of prescription drugs, mostly pain killers or stimulants, but recently the balance has tilted way in favour of pornography. I had some filters in place with my ISP, but these seem to be defeated through two methods:
I. Creative misspelling. The most recent e-mail I got featured:
"Eexemtly Huge cawks! Massive cawks not seen anywrehe else!
See this slluts take thsee massive cawks in every hole! Many Many mroe x-raited adevntures of mstoenr cawkks!!!
Cmoe cehck tsehe wild vixnes work teshe cawks hard!!!
These keyboard-mashing examples of someone (let's hope) figuratively typing with his dick would defeat any kind of automated spam filter that relies on proper spelling.
II. Random text, both in the subject line body of the message. The "cawk" introduction was followed by long passages grabbed at random from several unrelated documents:
Government documents: "Other Interesting Facts of Employees Rights Under the ADA"
Chinese history: "Problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeeded Mao Zedong as..."
Something about the space program?: "James E. Webb took all responsibility for the tragic accident, but it was the hatch that had a design flaw that made it impossible for escape, " We've always known something like this was going to happen sooner or later, Who would have thought the first tragedy would be on the ground?" (Smith 7). Later Webb would decide to retire in October 1969.
And finally, an account of the life of Buddha and the history and basics of Buddhist practice that went on for several thousand words.
Very curious. I'm not sure how this method manages to foil filters.
Originally it was lots of stuff offering me all kinds of prescription drugs, mostly pain killers or stimulants, but recently the balance has tilted way in favour of pornography. I had some filters in place with my ISP, but these seem to be defeated through two methods:
I. Creative misspelling. The most recent e-mail I got featured:
"Eexemtly Huge cawks! Massive cawks not seen anywrehe else!
See this slluts take thsee massive cawks in every hole! Many Many mroe x-raited adevntures of mstoenr cawkks!!!
Cmoe cehck tsehe wild vixnes work teshe cawks hard!!!
These keyboard-mashing examples of someone (let's hope) figuratively typing with his dick would defeat any kind of automated spam filter that relies on proper spelling.
II. Random text, both in the subject line body of the message. The "cawk" introduction was followed by long passages grabbed at random from several unrelated documents:
Government documents: "Other Interesting Facts of Employees Rights Under the ADA"
Chinese history: "Problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeeded Mao Zedong as..."
Something about the space program?: "James E. Webb took all responsibility for the tragic accident, but it was the hatch that had a design flaw that made it impossible for escape, " We've always known something like this was going to happen sooner or later, Who would have thought the first tragedy would be on the ground?" (Smith 7). Later Webb would decide to retire in October 1969.
And finally, an account of the life of Buddha and the history and basics of Buddhist practice that went on for several thousand words.
Very curious. I'm not sure how this method manages to foil filters.
