Wednesday December 22, 2004

Still At It

Loads of stuff to do at work as ever. The stuff that keeps me busy doesn’t suffer from the usual seasonal fluctuations. There’s plenty of work to keep me busy right through Christmas.

Posted by Phil at 09:11 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: Work

Random Spam

I got a new spam comment today, which demonstrates a new tactic by spammers. In this age of increasing reliance on spotting words, phrases and other patterns which imply spam, the spammers seem to be taking a different tack. In this comment they’d just used a series of random characters, both for the message, their email address and the link URL. No more “texas-holdem.com”. Instead “sdfskvefdte.com”. And of course registering a gibberish domain isn’t a problem

So what do we do now? Have whitelists of words we feel need to be included in a comment/email, and a blacklist of words we don’t?

It’s all a bit surreal really.

Posted by Phil at 07:20 AM | Comments (0) | Categories: Technology