shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)
Can I suggest two possibilities not apparently being considered?
(1) These messages may be a sort of generator for phishing targets.
(This is not currently a likely scenario, but you want to consider it.)
(2) These might be either the body of a message sent by a spatter
steganography technique, or they might be setting up a noise
background against which to send steganographically encoded
messages.
I'd suggest a third, which is true tin-foil-hat stuff, but you who are into
conspiracy theories can work that out yourselves.
Whenever I see a sudden rise in odd-looking spam, I tend to
assume something like the second possibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
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Joel Rees
One of these days I'll get someone to pay me
to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C.
Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef,
run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define,
and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast.
http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-computers.html
More of my delusions:
http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html
http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
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