Has anyone else noticed that the new generation of gif based stock-trading spams are getting really hard to read? In the last one I had to squint and look really carefully to find out what stock was hot and a sure-buy today!
For a moment I was reminded of the times when I left comments on a Typepad or Blogspot blog before hitting J to junk the thing. Pretty backgrounds too.
6 Comments
Mike on November 22, 2006 at 5:22 pm.
I got the same spam this morning. I think the background is a cubist Stealth Bomber passing over a colourful middle eastern city.
Any other suggestions?
Justin Cook (1 comments.) on November 22, 2006 at 5:49 pm.
I just started working for a company that is releasing an anti-spam solution to fight this kind of spam specifically, it’s pretty cool stuff!
Donncha (1707 comments.) on November 22, 2006 at 6:02 pm.
Spamassassin now does a good job of detecting them using some sort of OCR engine. It is resource intensive though.
The irony is, if an effective solution to this is found, then capthas will become useless as the comment spam people will use that solution to get their spam in the door and past the captha!
Mike on November 23, 2006 at 2:14 pm.
unrelated but very cool – check out this odd pictures:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/sci_nat_animals_in_the_womb/html/1.stm
Justin Mason (6 comments.) on November 24, 2006 at 12:08 pm.
good question Donncha! I’ve posted my thoughts here: http://taint.org/2006/11/24/120715a.html
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