JohnGrahamCumming - Slashdot User

Submission + - Doing research by borrowing from a blog post?

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JohnGrahamCumming

on Tuesday September 12, 2006 @05:02AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "Last Monday my blog post on subliminal spam messages was posted on Slashdot's front page. In the days that followed three anti-spam firms reported the discovery of subliminal spam as their own work with no mention of my blog or Slashdot. One even appears to have lifted the examples straight from my blog without attribution. Is this how research is done, or was it just three coincidences?"

Submission + - Digg effect 1/3 of Slashdot effect

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JohnGrahamCumming

on Wednesday September 06, 2006 @04:17PM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "On Monday a blog entry on 'Subliminal spam GIFs' from my site appeared on the front page of Slashdot. On Tuesday the same story appeared on the front page of Digg. This gave me a chance to measure the Slashdot effect and Digg effect. The result: Slashdot brought 3.5x as many visitors as Digg."

Submission + - The first subliminal spam using animated GIFs

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JohnGrahamCumming

on Monday September 04, 2006 @11:13AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "Everyone's noticed the recent flood of image spam (including the SpamAssassin developers who are working on an OCR-extension to beat it), but take a look at this spam containing a subliminal message flashed every 17seconds to try to entice you to buy the stock being pumped. Does this work? Warning: link shows the actual spam; don't blame me if you lose money on this stock!"

Submission + - AT&T crack was done by phishers

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JohnGrahamCumming

on Friday September 01, 2006 @01:22PM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "According to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle the AT&T store crack was the prelude to a very sophisticated phishing operation. The phishers were aiming to use the information from the store to fool existing customers into divulging SSNs and other personal information."

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