{"id":767,"date":"2003-11-24T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2003-11-24T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2003-11-24T16:29:42","slug":"spamming-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"spamming today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new tactics in the war against humanity conducted by spammers. the first is to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/support\/index.php?act=ST&amp;f=14&amp;t=31153\">a security hole<\/a> in MT to send spam onwards from our accounts. The second is to use messages whose text is random nonsense. There is a hidden payload in the <span class=\"caps\">HTML.<\/span> The point is that a human eye can spot these in seconds. The subject lines I have had this morning are<\/p>\n\n<p>*Boatyards podge<br \/>\npour advertisement<br \/>\nPocketbook crewcut<br \/>\nHounds accrue<\/p>\n\n<p>But if it were possible to write a program that recognised these as nonsense and threw them away, it would do rather more than simply abolish spam. the only thing that will do <em>that<\/em> at reasonable costs is the idea of a postoffice that takes micropayments for email. Cheap for humans, prohibitive for spammers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new tactics in the war against humanity conducted by spammers. the first is to use a security hole in MT to send spam onwards from our accounts. The second is to use messages whose text is random nonsense. There &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}