Spam steganography
A week or two ago, I stuck this URL in my briefcase with a cryptic label, "Blogworthy". I guess it is at least mildly interesting, and if I commit it to the blog that's one more loose piece of paper I can throw away. Yay!
Spam Mimic
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Fiend @ 10:04PM | 2004-05-31| permalink
What exactly is the point of encrypting and sending an email message, disguised as spam, if your server/mail client is going to recognise it as spam and delete it before you ever see it?
(Unless, of course, you disable spam filtering and are willing to wade through all the "real" spam to read the "fake" one!)
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Felix @ 4:33PM | 2004-06-02| permalink
Well, presumably, anyone expecting such a message would not use a spam-filter, but would have an e'mail address which had not been widely provided to "other spammers". I think the point of steganography is to deceive anyone other than the intended recipient into thinking that it's just more mundane data not worth investigating. (Steganography has also been used to hide messages inside .jpg images posted to websites, for example.)
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