Re: Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:02:30PM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 19:00, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Spammers recently adopted tactics of using randomly generated words, eg. wryqf, in both the subject and the body of the message. ... Could the pseudowords be easily

Re: Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 19:00, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Spammers recently adopted tactics of using randomly generated words, eg. wryqf, in both the subject and the body of the message. .. Could the pseudowords be easily detected by their characteristics, .. Presence of pseudowords then

Best social engineering of the year?

2003-09-05 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/04/1062548967124.html On the night of Wednesday, August 27, two men dressed as computer technicians and carrying tool bags entered the cargo processing and intelligence centre at Sydney International Airport. The men, described as being of

SSH MITM (was Re: Getting certificates)

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:48:55PM -0700, James A. Donald wrote: On 4 Sep 2003 at 7:56, Eric Murray wrote: ..which means that it [ssh-- ericm] still requires an OOB authentication. (or blinding typing 'yes' and ignoring the consequences). But that's another subject. Not true. Think

Re: Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:09 PM 9/4/03 -0700, Eric Murray wrote: (it's one of about 200 checks my program makes). Can we assume that the spam is generated by regexp-type programs? If so, are there good methods for inferring the regexp from examples, and using this to infer spamfiltering rules? Good project for a