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Example of Twitter Search Spam

ByMike McBride April 2, 2009 Reading Time: 1 minute

Saw this one today while keeping an eye on tweets from ABA Techshow, proof positive that popular hashtags are easy targets. I suspect this will continue, and if it works for the spammers at all, it’ll be out of control fairly soon!

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You’ve got Mail, more and more and mostly, it’s junk.
ByMike McBride December 26, 2001July 22, 2015 Reading Time: 2 minutes

You’ve got Mail, more and more and mostly, it’s junk. From the NY Times (registration required). Some interesting quotes: “If you’re saying `unsolicited’ is the problem, I would ask you to think about my favorite example: Here’s a one-dollar coupon on Tide sent to everyone in America,” said Bob Weintzen, president of the Direct Marketing…

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Ever since I created my Gmail account as my name, I’ve gotten occasional emails that are not meant for me at all, but are meant for people with the same name. Now, I have no idea how other people are getting the impression that my name @ Gmail is this other person’s email address, but…

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The new smokers?
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I had to laugh when reading this column comparing blackberry users to smokers, in terms of the annoyance caused. As a blackberry user myself, it got my attention, but as I read it I realized that this was basically the same column I’ve read about cell phone users, and the bottom line was the same….

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Linked – This Is A Really Bad Idea: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Microsoft Agree To Block ‘Terrorist’ Content
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“This sounds as though it’s modeled on similar arrangements around child pornography. Except that there are some major differences between child pornography and “terrorist content.” The first is that child porn is de facto illegal. “Terrorist content” is quite frequently perfectly legal. It’s also much more of a judgment call. And based on this setup,…

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Linked: Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
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This is easy to believe, from the story linked at the bottom of this post. ““I strongly suspect this is not the first case to misidentify someone to arrest them for a crime they didn’t commit. This is just the first time we know about it.”” The thing is, there are still way too many…

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Linked – ProtonMail makes its free VPN service available to everyone
ByMike McBride June 21, 2017June 20, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

“ProtonMail, the encrypted email created by CERN and MIT scientists, has released a new product in response to the administration’s roll back of Obama-era internet privacy rules. Starting today, you can try out the company’s VPN service, which was in beta testing by 10,000 initial users for a year, by getting it from the official…

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