From: Phillip Gawlowski Date: 2008-05-17T06:39:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Obfuscated Email -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Moss wrote: | | On May 16, 2:25 pm, DJ Jazzy Linefeed | wrote: |> Google catches my spam for me. | | True. And it does for me as well. I get Russian spam. At least I think it is spam. ;) | But that's not the point. The quiz description was exaggeration, | satire even. More dark humor, really. | I thought I had laid it on thick enough to be obvious, | especially considering that (a) security through obscurity is not at | all security, and (b) I just told spammers how to defeat this | technique: run the sig through Ruby. On which I have a question: What do you mean by 'running it through the interpreter'? Creatively using Ruby's feature to convert hex into ASCII, for example? - -- Phillip Gawlowski Twitter: twitter.com/cynicalryan Blog: http://justarubyist.blogspot.com Yugoslavian ceasefire [noun]: Unit of time, roughly equal to the time it take to reload a gun. ~ -- "Ny Tid" (Norwegian Weekly). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEUEARECAAYFAkgt/vYACgkQbtAgaoJTgL9IcACY8Ozm4klCTgw8yENPG22scHfT ZACcDUUa9lCBCYmqn7utCa9arR8che4= =+Aze -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----