This post was published 4 years 11 months 18 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.

It has long been my theory that pornography, has been the driving force behind technology. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that DVD’s would have been nothing without porn.

Now those creative peddlers of smut have found a way to defeat spam filters with ASCII art. Brilliant.

As quoted: “This textfile contains one simple example, with the words HOT GIRLS in big letters – it cunningly gets past spam filters by not containing any actual words in the body text. As its content is only apparent to humans, it will be tricky to catch by any filters – as long as the whitespace remains intact, the actual text can just be any random garbage. In theory, every spam email could be totally unique.”

So, now filters to evolve! Touché!

Read More