Spam is (now) Art
by on August 27, 2008
CNET reports that some spammers are resorting to ASCII art to bypass spam filters. I have a love/hate relationship with this idea. I love it because it is undeniably clever. I hate it because Gmail isn’t clever-er.
Stephen Shankland, in his post, makes a good point though, “the very reason the art spam is hard to screen out also makes it, well, somewhat impotent as a spam method. ” It gets the information in front of your eyes, but that’s about it.
(Image Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)
Colin Aug 29
Nice! I’ve also heard rumors that people have sneaked ASCII art into AdWords on Google. Pretty creative. But I’ve also heard that Google doesn’t allow this, and that those stories are made up…