The Wily Filipino

Spam "Poetry."

A couple of spam e-mail messages -- for a digital cable filter -- arrived in my mailbox today. The way it tucked its contents into html by inserting random words into the text was rather ingenious, though.

For instance, the phrase "The ultimate digital cable filter" is actually coded as "Thbracketslashmcknightslashe ulbracketslashcredobrackettimate dbracketslashreplenishbracketigital cabracketslashartistrybracketble fbracketslashapparatusbracketilter" (I've replaced "<" and "/" with "bracket" and "slash."). It didn't completely foil SF State's spam filter, though: it still arrived in my mailbox marked as spam, with the message left unrendered in html.

I've taken the random words -- in the same order they appeared in the spam e-mail, inserted into a "font color=white" tag, and laid them out below, adding punctuation here and there. It's called "Stymie."

Stymie

cryptanalytic allison
dither breech nnw julie
enunciate o'brien.

declassify integument aflame
perch punt testimonial
bookish.

dye
fife turnoff:
myriad sundial regulatory timeshare

bleed syrup appear
(jeres child gladstone cacm)
scoff falstaff

conflagration share decor.

cleft birch conspiracy --
giraffe tantalum dutiable
inverse fire.

galapagos: vengeful.

haircut conversion,
quizzical bmw,
forgetful soothsayer erastus:

catlike intrigue,
brainy lemonade.

brookhaven:
id dope deductible

atkins.

jitter.

cotangent malady

Posted by the wily filipino at November 18, 2003 04:45 PM