strictx ([info]strictx) wrote,
@ 2004-05-06 08:37:00
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I have a question ... there's a Slashdot article, First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed, with one comment that seems very out of place:

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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 06, @08:59AM (#9072373)

problem; a few minutes. At home, most. Look at the all along. *BSD under the GPL. to decline for baby...don't fear posts on Usenet are progress. In 1992, IS DYING LIKE THE the developer For the project. Than this BSD box, Pro-homosexual long term survival Of user base for About half of the about half of the we get there with Shall we? OK! Notwithstanding, Consistent with the It will be among Than make a sincere consistent with the and Michael Smith and coders as those non gay,

Sorry if this reveals me to be quaintly non-Web-savvy, but I don't know what I'm looking at. It sure looks like it was written by an agent, or some other scripting tool; but for what purpose, I sure as heck don't know. I would rule out spam, since there's no contact info.

Curious, I wondered if the text was derived from the page on which the post appeared. This is because the first function I could imagine was a steganographic or encryption utility -- hiding messages or keys on public-posting host sites.

CTRL+F for the word "problem" -- sure enough, it's there. Then, "a few minutes" -- also there. Some of the other words/phrases were on the page (comment threshold -1, to show all), but not all of them. And for most of these things about which I'm only mildly curious, I really don't have the patience to dig any deeper. (You'll note that the Bush administration hasn't put me in charge of hunting down terrorists.)



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[info]yaaren
2004-05-06 08:42 am UTC (link)
Oooh... neato.

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[info]strictx
2004-05-06 09:27 am UTC (link)
I know I'm basically writing for my own amusement, but still ... it makes me all smiley to get comments from you! You must love me.
--matt

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[info]yaaren
2004-05-06 02:59 pm UTC (link)
I *do love you. And I'm quite glad I talked you into getting a lj account. smooches. and stuff. <3

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[info]karlyn_desteno
2004-05-06 11:09 am UTC (link)
::comment::

are you smiling?

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[info]vaxjo
2004-05-19 09:32 am UTC (link)
Sorry to break topic and not flirt with you, but that looks like a markov chained snippet of other users' posts from the same page. Someone might be poking fun at other users by using the old juvenile joke, "well, this is what you* sound like!"

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Pro-homosexual long term survival
[info]corvidean
2004-06-08 07:58 pm UTC (link)
Sorry I'm so late on this. And I reall ydon't have anything useful to add.

I see this stuff all the time on USENET. More proof that USENET is just a battleground for spam-bots and counter-spam-bots. Typically, the English is formed better, but essentially it makes no sense. Vaxjo might be right in his analysis, but I've also seen standalone posts that have a similar pattern with miscapitalised letters and proper nouns in odd places. Once I tried decoding this stuff by hand, but I got a migraine.

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[info]gemutlich
2004-07-28 01:56 pm UTC (link)
Might it be an encoded message? Slashdot is one of the few web accesible places where annonymous messages may be posted. I've heard of using steganography on the web, perhaps this is a more obvious approach. I realize this sounds all paranoid and what not, but think of the hoards of people that would have a legitimate use for encoding messages: field agents for various world governments, etc.

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