{"id":139,"date":"2006-12-06T12:46:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T17:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2006\/12\/06\/spam-will-it-ever-end\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T17:46:43","slug":"spam-will-it-ever-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2006\/12\/06\/spam-will-it-ever-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam: will it ever end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been observed by many people that spam levels have shot up tremendously in the last half year.  Largely due to bot-nets of cracked Windows PCs, which tend to make the older spam-fighting mechanisms like server blacklists ineffective.  And largely image-based spam defeats heuristic analyzers like Bayesian filters.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow even email addresses that I hardly ever use, and which were formerly completely spam-free, have started getting spam.  I figure somebody I know must have got their computer 0wned.  Crap.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder now&#8230; will we ever really find a permanent solution to the spam problem?  The alternative is too terrible to contemplate. Will I have to spend spending the next 30 years deleting 50 stock pump-n-dump spams every day?<\/p>\n<p>Is this what Hell is like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been observed by many people that spam levels have shot up tremendously in the last half year. Largely due to bot-nets of cracked Windows PCs, which tend to make the older spam-fighting mechanisms like server blacklists ineffective. And largely image-based spam defeats heuristic analyzers like Bayesian filters. Somehow even email addresses that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}