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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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I don't know what it is, but today I got this in my junk mail:

Dear Sir/Madam,

We have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.

Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.

Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison

*** Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
*** 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 3220
*** Washington, DC 20535
*** phone: (202) 283-4108

I'm insulted. If you are going to prank me into running your spyware, please put some effort into it. Not to mention the small matter of jurisdiction...

There's this thing called the Turing Test. In a nut shell it is can a computer be so clever that you don't realize that it's a computer you are communicating with. The test must then assume some benchmark level of human intelegence. Could a drop in the benchmark of human intelegence be measured by how lame the lure has to be before someone bites?

And a quick post-script to any law enforcement agencies out there: If you ever get so lazy that you start to question suspects by email... *rolls eyes*

Secutity

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:54:42 AM (AUS Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10:00)