der Mouse wrote: >>>> http://darkreading.com/blog/archives/2009/06/facebook_419_im.html >>> IMO the real news here is that a bot managed to pass the Turing test >>> well enough that after an hour talking with it you had to resort to >>> out-of-band contacts to be sure it wasn't the person it was >>> pretending to be. >> The more I think about it the less likely it seems that it was a bot, >> however, what else could it be for such a large-scale scam? > > The same minimum-wage "Nigerians in cybercafes" that send 419s?
Seems like it. Human bots FTW! > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Gadi Evron, g...@linuxbox.org. Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
