{"id":4904,"date":"2013-08-11T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2013-08-11T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T14:22:28","slug":"why-the-spammers-are-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"Why the spammers are winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has a good article on spam,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2013\/aug\/09\/why-spammers-are-winning-junk-mail\">Why the spammers are winning<\/a> that is based largely on a new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2013\/may\/31\/spam-shadow-history-internet-review?CMP=twt_gu\">Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet by Finn Brunton<\/a>. The article tells about what may be the first modern spam message which was distributed on a Sunday evening of 1864 by a telegraph company. The urgent message was from a dentists company advertising their hours. <\/p>\n<p>What is interesting is that spam filtering and spam filter bypassing agents are text technologies that are getting more and more sophisticated. As filters got better spam is no longer a matter for amateurs. Spam is also changing &#8211; there are more an more inventive ways to get you to read junk ads. For that matter at the end of Guardian articles there has been a collection of links to articles in the Guardian and elsewhere that feels a lot like clickbait. The links are paid for and provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outbrain.com\/\">Outbrain<\/a>. They tend to be ad cloaked as stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/guardianlower.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/guardianlower-300x122.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"guardianlower\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/guardianlower-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/guardianlower.png 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has a good article on spam,Why the spammers are winning that is based largely on a new book Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet by Finn Brunton. The article tells about what may be the first modern spam message which was distributed on a Sunday evening of 1864 by a telegraph company. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why the spammers are winning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4907,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/4907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}