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cmdrfred on March 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Survival Guide for the Small Mail Server

I've thought about this. All the spammer has to do is 'buffer overflow' the capacity of the heuristics algorithm. If google's anti spam can only worry about X number of unique spam message signatures write a script the generates x + 1 unique human readable spam messages. Not easy but probably possible, what's a good guess for X?

hobs on March 20, 2015 [–]

A man once asked a google employee what DDOS mitigation they use, and the employee asked back "How could I tell we were getting ddosed?"

If your idea is to overload google itself, you are going to need a bigger botnet.

cmdrfred on March 20, 2015 | [–]

Good point. You would need something on the scale of all the world bot nets combined to even begin.

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