News You Can Bruise for 2003 October 28 (entry 2)

(2) Tue Oct 28 2003 13:19 "No Whitespace No Cry": I'm working on an analogy: spam is to steganography what copy protection is to cryptography. I was inspired by The Spammer's Compendium, which lists the tricks spammers use to hide their message in filter-passing plaintext, complete with "what were they thinking" rationale (for instance, adding one long random word won't fool Bayesian filters much, but it will mess up CRC checkers).

Comments:

Posted by Aaron Swartz at Wed Oct 29 2003 22:50

It took me 27 hours to process it, but now I see: That's a good analogy.

Posted by Aaron Swartz at Wed Oct 29 2003 22:51

BTW, the "News You Can Bruise" link at the top of all these comment pages is broken.