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Spam

Thu 15 Jun 2006

Spam as Artifical Intelligence?

Thursday, Jun 15th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Categories: Spam; Social Software; Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Administrator
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If spam keeps getting smarter and smarter — reading and analying and exploiting our email habits, reading and ditto our blogs, reading and ditto our social networks — will it display artificial intelligence …?



Sat 29 Apr 2006

Spam Zombies: the Next Generation

Saturday, Apr 29th, 2006 at 6:08 am
Categories: Networking; Spam
Posted by Administrator
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Newfangled spam zombies read your past email, imitate your style:

When a computer is turned into a spam zombie, it will first be mined of its address book, mail client configuration, and mail archives. Then the spam program will use Natural Language Processing techniques to send spam messages to the victim’s contacts that look a lot like messages that the user has previously sent.
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Such are the monsters of our cleverness. Beware, Daedalus!