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Political Lingo In Spam

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We get tons of spam comments in this blog. Whatever the reason, spammers keep trying. While our cloud-based anti spam system (Defensio) is doing well, we still get several comments that should be manually examined.

Defensio‘s blog spam web service aggressively and intelligently prevents comment and trackback spam from hitting your blog

There IS a limitation for a machine ability to analyze text and understand it. There are similar issues when humans (most of us) try to analyze political lingo.  Reading the Top 10 worst political speeches of all times, I thought that some of our spammer’s writers should be considering a career change. Take this post for example, it’s one of the “best” I have seen in a long time. I’m announcing it, STOD (Spam Of The Day):

To be honest, it seems that you completely seized the bona fide substance of the position circumferent. While many look to have escaped the important concept of it, when it was posited previous is unadulterated plus concise. I am not sounding out that I harmonise on all details; all the same, you managed to have minded me grounds to ponder numerous of the major premises that I reckoned that I guarded as unshakable opinions in that attentivenesses. said, and now for someone like myself to think a bit more on some of the major details. All together I would state it is clear that you have clearly stated what needed to be said.

A political writer must be woking with those guys…

Written by sharon

August 18th, 2010 at 3:03 am

Posted in Cloud Security

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Our Ranking Must Be Higher Now…

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Our Google ranking must be higher now. Otherwise, I can’t explain the increase in the amount of spam (via comments) that Securitypie.com is receiving. It might be Assaf’s recent rant on Google and Windows or maybe that we are now running a newer version of WordPress.

Whatever the reason is, we are getting much more spam. Some of it is lame, other (though few) is more sophisticated. In the future we should publish the best spam messages….

Ranking

Written by sharon

June 20th, 2010 at 11:25 pm

Posted in marketing

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