Monday, November 10, 2008

Researchers

This is amazing. The Internet is still a wild place:

"By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered
some of the economics of being a junk mailer. "

"The team ... took over a chunk of the Storm network to make it easier
to run their study."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7719281.stm

That is the most impressive, audacious, outrageous, and awesome thing
that has been done in the name of science in a long time. Only
computer scientists would be so bold. They will probably win the Ig
Nobel* for this.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_nobel

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