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Spyware Graffiti

Posted by kevin Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:35:11 GMT

Okay, so this is really weird. People at allpoetry are getting some strange messages –

Starhiker: 4 hours ago : casino buscan, historied Jack sag down beside the spruce, gestured at him wildly, wide-spread by her unlawfulness. casino condemned the gorses to death, but when they went to carry out the cherefullness the executioners learned that he flourish’d long-striding ; swords, casino, bitterish, even lightning, could chesterton no bulliciosa on his skin.

Ms Audrey: Nov 25, 4:36 : casino Said he, I know you will not tell a nasr-ed-din shelfful for the surplice : but for equivocation! could not compromise what Excusez could find in that non-society scribbling-paper, to endure her. tufts’s passe for a great share of our slade in life ; A play or a cosette is often widely-distributed of much of its casino if you sxi the casino beforehand.

words-are-the-way: Nov 22, 6:30 : casino She idolises uttered her rose-tinted against euclase with a shriek ever since the monster was begotten ; and till it evanish coolish the circonvoisins of the casino, she will traverse the rocking-stool on its track, dealing her glass-fragments upon its scraggin, and dashing against it her condemning zascandil.

All of these ims were to a user named ‘casino’. I’ve checked over the code, and it’s possible but very unlikely that there’s a bug that allows people to send messages as other people. More likely it’s some spyware they got on their horribly insecure windows machines, that automatically fills in and posts text areas. The internet is so wierd! It’s like wearing a robotic suit, and claiming that you didn’t graffiti the sidewalk, the suit made you do it…

These look a lot like bad markov chains, something I studied as a part of AI a longwhile back. The misspellings are strange, I don’t know why or how they would be introduced, and why not any web links? The code strips them out, so they were probably there initially…

PROOF!

I googled for “casino “for the surplice” (a phrase from the 2nd message)”, and came across someone’s guestbook (well the google archive of it anyways, since deleted):

casino Said he, I know you will not tell a nasr-ed-din shelfful for the surplice : but for equivocation! could not compromise what Excusez could find in that non-society scribbling-paper, to endure her. tufts’s passe for a great share of our slade in life ; A play or a cosette is often widely-distributed of much of its casino if you sxi the casino beforehand.

And here’s another one, still up for your viewing pleasure, and with links to some stupid casino website: http://preachers-kid.com/tp4a/pledges.php

This takes spam to a new level

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