an idle query...

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Bruce R Koball <bkoball () well com>
Date: July 4, 2009 6:14:13 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: an idle query...

Dave,

An idle query for the IP brain trust over the long weekend, if it's  
not a distraction:

Lately, in the past few months, I've been getting spam with curious  
content in addition to the normal stuff being pitched. In the text are  
numerous lines of what appear to be hexadecimal characters enclosed in  
square brackets, like this:

[DAE82C17E74CA345C25E3DBC6FDAB2ACBDFF3F9695A28E1AD7731CFF842D7F1E]

Often the lines are repeated identically dozens of times with an  
occasional unique line inserted, but the format is always the same...
hex chars enclosed in brackets.

This is new in my experience; I can think of a dozen explanations,  
some benign and some nefarious.

Does anyone really know WTFIGO here?

-brk-

Bruce R. Koball




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