Fergie wrote: > Yep, it's getting quite creative. > > Alex Eckelberry blogged on this last week: > > http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/creative-image-spam.html
And others -- e.g.: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/11/yet-more-spammer-image- optimization.html And there are other reasons than "OCR-busting" that these approaches are being used (and it's NOT hash-busting), but I'm not sure a public list is the place to discuss this yet... In fact, "hash busting" is an incidental result of the effect the spammers are really going for, but I doubt that matters any more -- are any seriously useful anti-spam products still so badly conceived and designed that they either need to rely on some form of hashing, or actually get any real leverage from using it? Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
