tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post2014534173715151788..comments2023-08-26T05:04:33.009-04:00Comments on anti-virus rants: harnessing the power of spamkurt wismerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03810635947269551517noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post-55950068852736165912008-05-13T07:36:00.000-04:002008-05-13T07:36:00.000-04:00only 2 problems? i kinda expected more...part of m...only 2 problems? i kinda expected more...<BR/><BR/>part of me isn't really expecting it to work... i shared it more for the entertainment value...<BR/><BR/>that said, if someone does make it work, that would be awesome...kurt wismerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03810635947269551517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post-39579786812760443002008-05-13T00:50:00.000-04:002008-05-13T00:50:00.000-04:00It's an interesting idea, however there are at lea...It's an interesting idea, however there are at least two problems with it (IMHO):<BR/><BR/>- as you pointed out, somebody's spam might be an other people's ham (it is hard to categorize the "gray" emails like newsletters - and this is the same area anti-spam products have the most difficulty to)<BR/>- the second (and IMHO bigger) problem is that not many people are willing to make their email public (which this method would require as I understand it). Even if information like sender and receiver would to be masked, there is still plenty of possibility for private information to be divulged in the body of the email.<BR/><BR/>On a sidenote: <A HREF="http://recaptcha.net/" REL="nofollow">reCaptcah</A> does something similar: they use captcha solving to OCR old books. Every problematic word (for which the OCR engine doesn't have a high confidence level) is distributed as a captcha (together with a known word, so that you can verify at least partially if the answer is correct. Also it requires multiple coinciding solutions to accept a word.Cd-MaNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05030326541176171725noreply@blogger.com