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Re: An OCR plug-in for Spamassassin
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:07:21 +1200
Gary Funck wrote:
[Rather cool. And since spammers have been resorting to encoding their adverts into gif's of late, maybe worth a try.]
Or maybe the spammers are a step ahead already?? OK, so it is not commonly used (yet) but earlier this year we saw some evidence that just maybe the spammers were already thinking about, and experimenting with, ways to break OCR'ing as an anti-spam method... http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/01/do-spammers-fear-ocr.html Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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