Spam and Economics
8 am, September 18th, 2007
If you’re curious about some techniques of spammers and the intersection between economics and spam, check out this talk by Ross Anderson at Google:
8 am, September 18th, 2007
If you’re curious about some techniques of spammers and the intersection between economics and spam, check out this talk by Ross Anderson at Google:
8,679,653,094 spams caught so far
10,452,460 so far today
85% of all comments are spam
September 18th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
“93% of all comments are spam” is not what I encounter. I went from around 5%-6% up to 99,8% within a week…
September 19th, 2007 at 12:30 am
very interesting…still tinkering with ways of keeping out ‘all’ spam but guess there is no ‘all’ solution
good job on what you’ve done so far in keeping out the few thousands a week we would otherwise have to deal it…but as they say when all else fails, follow the money trail
September 19th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Unfortunately, the video is now offline. Any chance you could give a little round-up as to the main points of his talk?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:52 am
It’s funny, watching something like this. They have some idea whats going on, but miss alot. I like how the google gal in there is getting upset with the presenter, who shows how google is helping to promote lots of fraudulent websites.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:33 am
Thank you… very informative.
September 24th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
loving it..good job. we were going nuts til like christoforo colombo we discovered akismet
October 18th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
i’d expect these to be filtered…