overstated

a weblog by cameron marlow

Tag: spam

Friendster XSS spam

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been getting some random messages from friends on Friendster (this is probably the first time in over a year). The first three or four, I didn’t think anything of it, but finally a good friend sent me a message, so I logged on and found this:

Which is [...]

Flickr spam email

I received a strange email this morning, addressed to my blogdex email address which has nothing to do with Flickr, but exceptionally high SpamRank:
From: Dee (Barry@nishikoi.com)
To: blogdex@media.mit.edu
Subject: question about your photo
I’ve accidently found your photo at a flickr and i’m very
interested in it.
Can you tell me what place i can see in the background of
it?

wbr, [...]

Google news, meet spam

I’ve been a long-time user of Google news and news alerts. For certain topics, it’s the only way for me to stay informed, and the quality of their index has generally kept these updates to high-quality, on-topic news that matched some keywords. Over the past six months I have noticed a diminishing returns on the [...]

Bloggers volley.. Google returns

Recent coverage of googlebombing by the BBC has prompted Google to respond: Google strikes back.

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