I am spam. Spam I am.
That Spam I am, that spam I am. I do not like that spam, I am.
Tag: Spam
Seychelles time
I spent an enjoyable day with my customer, learning a lot about oil exploration, sedimentation drift, and modern Norwegian history. The capstone was a home-cooked meal and occasional juvenile snickering while we all agreed that modeling TFD is an important, though funny problem.
Continue readingWordPress 2.1
One of my complaints against Movable Type was that SixApart didn’t update the software very often, especially now that they’re pursuing the “Enterprise” space. Since switching to WordPress six weeks ago, there have been three updates. I don’t know if I should be happy it’s so actively developed, or worried that it’s still got enough security issues that they have […]
Continue readingDistributed comment spamming
Today I had my first distributed, coordinated comment spam attack. This one was interesting because within a five minute time span, twenty comments were posted to three separate entries. The comments used a similarly formated message but linked to different, legitimate web sites. They were also from completely different IP addresses (list below the fold). Clearly something in the Movable […]
Continue readingWhy you need a cross-cut shredder
Because this: isn’t good enough.
Continue readingImpress her… not
A “Joe-Job” is when a spammer sends out thousands of emails, masquerading as someone else. When the (334) emails bounce or (three) people respond, it comes to the lucky joe-jobbee, e.g. me. The deluge of mail headers this morning suggest distributed spammery, so I’m not even going to bother with firing off futile requests to ISPs to flog customers who […]
Continue reading80.77.86.206 and 80.77.86.237 (among others)
If my site seems slower than usual, it’s because I’m being deluged by a bunch of referral spammers hawking their link farms. At least they have a sense of humor about it and are referencing my entry on referer spamming.
Continue readingSpamads
In a mobius loop of ads, Gmail is offering RSS headlines in the spam folder: Spam burritos seem so … wrong.
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