silentYak » Spam http://www.silentyak.com ...a universal platform for global junk... Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:19:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Human Bots http://www.silentyak.com/2009/11/12/human-bots/ http://www.silentyak.com/2009/11/12/human-bots/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:56:07 +0000 RRI http://www.silentyak.com/?p=947 Now that we have all these algorithms that try to detect if comments left on a blog are made by bots impersonating humans, I wonder if they’re sophisticated enough to detect humans emulating bots.…

When I get the time, I’m going to perform an experiment, the anti-Turing test of sorts. I’m going to leave comments on various sites that sound like bots, but are, in fact, me. (I’m mostly human, by the way.) The goal of the experiment would be to get them marked as spam. Of course, the crucial thing is that these should be comments relevant to the post, not real spam.

]]> http://www.silentyak.com/2009/11/12/human-bots/feed/ 1 Why So Serious? http://www.silentyak.com/2008/09/30/why-so-serious/ http://www.silentyak.com/2008/09/30/why-so-serious/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:14:39 +0000 RRI http://www.silentyak.com/?p=429 Did you hear about the geek who accidentally published his unobfuscated email address to his personal website? I asked him if he was relieved he didn’t start getting email spam, but he seemed pretty darned pissed that not even the bots cared to visit his webpage.…

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