Re: Image spam hits a new level...

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Fergie wrote:

> Yep, it's getting quite creative.
>
> Alex Eckelberry blogged on this last week:
>
>  http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/creative-image-spam.html

And others -- e.g.:

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/11/yet-more-spammer-image-
optimization.html


And there are other reasons than "OCR-busting" that these approaches 
are being used (and it's NOT hash-busting), but I'm not sure a public 
list is the place to discuss this yet...

In fact, "hash busting" is an incidental result of the effect the 
spammers are really going for, but I doubt that matters any more -- are 
any seriously useful anti-spam products still so badly conceived and 
designed that they either need to rely on some form of hashing, or 
actually get any real leverage from using it?


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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