2008/07/06

Comment spam is evolving

See Assaf's analysis.  Is it totally automated?  Or generated by humans?  (And does it matter in choosing defensive strategies?)  Text with the only suspicious item being a link to a suspicious site is more difficult to deal with -- the referent may be fine when you check it, but change to an SEO spam site two days later, for example.  And just checking web sites is expensive too.

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