Articles on Spam

My vote goes to the Roulette Trick email for the state of the art in spam social engineering - Jul 31, 2009

Blogs Spam social engineering is the art of getting people to perform what the spammer wishes. Most of the time a spammer wishes to get the spammed to visit a Web site. ... Read story »

Pinhole cameras galore - Jun 8, 2009

Crave Pinhole camera made from Altoids mint tin can. This is not the first time I've written about pinhole cameras. As much as they are easy to make, somehow I just ... Read story »

40-percent of posts on Twitter are "pointless babble" - Aug 17, 2009

Crave Surprise! A full 40.5 percent of posts on Twitter--or tweets, as they're called--can be classified as "pointless babble," according to a new study from Pear Analytics. Coming in second was "conversational," ... Read story »

Brunei blacklisted - Jul 12, 2009

Blogs Actions speak louder than words and nothing resonates more than seeing how actual Web sites react to requests originating from Brunei. First up is video-sharing site Veoh. When I tried to ... Read story »

Beware of swine flu-related spam and malware - Apr 29, 2009

Blogs While the world is scrambling for a solution in determining how to control or totally stop the proliferation of the so-called "swine flu", spammers are taking advantage of the situation by ... Read story »

Pros and cons of Google SideWiki - Sep 25, 2009

Blogs Just recently, Google announced a new service called SideWiki, where it allows users to contribute helpful information next to any Web page. Google Sidewiki appears as a browser sidebar, where users ... Read story »

The Fulgurator: Inserting spam into your photos - Jun 28, 2008

Blogs There's junk mail, email spam, Web spam, and now, there's a way for spammers to insert spam into the photos you take during your holidays. Take a look at the Fulgurator ... Read story »

Gmail's sweet spam-fighting record and how you can help - Oct 30, 2007

Blogs Google's spam engineers have just added a nice short blogpost here. It's a "state of the service" report, but it does show a very believable graph above on how little spam ... Read story »

Indecent proposal to bloggers on automated election - Nov 6, 2009

Blogs I came across this posting from Ellen Tordesillas' blog site. Allegedly, someone from Smartmatic sent her a letter offering Ellen to write about their services. In exchange, she would be paid based ... Read story »

Windows 7 is so easy, even a 92-year-old can use - Oct 28, 2009

Crave My great aunt is 92 and, as of Friday, she's a Windows 7 PC. Now, Hilda is already not your typical nonagenarian. She is frequently online, does her finances in Quicken ... Read story »

Going gaga over Port 25 - Dec 7, 2007

Blogs Internet users are up in arms over the performance of Malaysia's near-monopoly broadband provider TM Net. This time, the angry customers involve business users who are plugged into TM Net's dynamic ... Read story »

Expiry dates of cell phone loads extended - Jul 15, 2009

Blogs Finally, the telecommunication providers have budged to pressure after agreeing to extend the expiry dates of cell phone loads. The Philippine Senate is currently investigating various issues surrounding the mobile phone ... Read story »

Stop spamming me, you *$^#%! - Apr 18, 2008

Crave That's one way to ask someone to stop sending you unsolicited jokes, recipes, mushy stories and chain letters which threaten you with car accidents that will leave you paraplegic. On the ... Read story »

33 things to complain about - Jan 23, 2008

Crave From air travel to electronic spam, it seems that the more time technology is supposed to save us, the less time we actually end up having. Wired Magazine made a list ... Read story »

The curse of the proxy server, and the continuing tale of TM ineptitude - Dec 4, 2007

Blogs TM Net has done it again. The company somehow manages to piss people off without even trying, and its latest exercise is an example of why TM Net is never going ... Read story »

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