Microsoft Research Offers Peek At The Future
from the useful-or-not? dept
Whether you're a fan of Microsoft or not, they do appear to be doing some interesting research in their labs, including a potential spam stopper. They're testing out a system that would force any email exchange to "solve a cryptographic puzzle" for any sender not in the recipients addressbook (or whitelist, I assume), putting some strain on the CPU. For spammers sending out millions of messages, it would drastically slow down their ability to send out the messages. At least that's the theory. There isn't much in the way of details, so if anyone knows any more, I'd like to hear about it. The other research talked about isn't as exciting, and includes things we've already spoken about, like their system to record everything that happens in your life. I still wonder, if you record your entire life, when will you have time to replay it?
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I can't help but think of Spaceballs...
"What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in my life?"
"Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now."
"What happened to then?"
"We passed then."
"When?"
"Just now. We're at now, now."
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"not much in the way of details"
Why waste space on this?
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Similar countermethod discussed for "post office a
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recording everything would be a boon
BTW the solve-a-puzzle spam idea isn't new.
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