Re: An OCR plug-in for Spamassassin

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Gary Funck wrote:

> [Rather cool.  And since spammers have been resorting to encoding their
> adverts into gif's of late, maybe worth a try.]

Or maybe the spammers are a step ahead already??

OK, so it is not commonly used (yet) but earlier this year we saw some 
evidence that just maybe the spammers were already thinking about, and 
experimenting with, ways to break OCR'ing as an anti-spam method...

   http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/01/do-spammers-fear-ocr.html


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

_______________________________________________
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.