I got the following text as comment spam, which is wild to me because the subject matter of the comment spam is actually itself comment spam! Never seen that one before. Maybe it’s that comet that just passed by Saturn last night? A co-worker told me about it.
This is similar to comment spam but avoids some of the safeguards designed to stop the latter practice. Six Apart started a working…
I guess I’ve seen everything now, officially - or at least when it comes to the internet. Speaking of which, I forgot to post a note about another appearance of yours truly on Umbrella Radio. Only problem is, it already happened. Several hours ago in fact. If you’re a Time Travel Club member, maybe you have the know-how to catch it still. If not, you’ll just have to wait for the podcast. Unfortunately, no recording was made of my last appearance on Umbrella Radio a couple weeks ago (though they reported a big bump in listeners for last episode - so I’m guessing a few of you heard it). It was an absolute hoot. We talked about ufos, ham radio, the spectrum nature of consciousness, the Akashic Record and a lot more. Tonight we talked a bit about my Monument City project, ideas about the future of technology and a brief section about the nationalization of banks and what that means on a practical level for the average person. I’m still not sure I really grasp the Ultimate Significance™ of it all, but I’m just happy to have steady work for the next couple of months. And apparently I get to learn how to waltz out of it all. Should come in handy at the rate I’m going.
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Assumption 1 - that comment was sent to your blog as spam from an automated (some type of malware) source
Assumption 2 - your blog was chosen as an actual influence free blog in which it could experiment against your blog’s safeguards
Assumption 3 - the malware sent to make the comments was a prototype or buggy version. While probing the defenses of this blog’s “program” it found a way in and decided it could make a semi-coherent post in such a blog but its “brain” section failed to write some “out there” message (one perhaps that sways people’s opinions) and instead sent a communice in a blog spam comment post designed only to be printed out in a comment section on a test blog. That way a person still learning about the software could train and see what the software was doing both technically and culturally.
Assumption 4 - Was the spam talking about spam the above assumed message? Or. Perhaps it was the spam software becoming aware of itself because it is trying to learn about blog content and how it could automatedly deliver comments to influence one agenda or another. That way a few could influence many or stragglers. So “they” send out these malware things in effort to maintain the grip on control but actually create a new life form. Something evil creates something good purely by accident. Unless of course it is not good.
What would a software company be writing a program that makes blog comment spam be in business for? Where are the profits? I think the answer the are not in it for profit. They are a group being paid to work together and who cares where the money comes from or what the ends of such software are meant for.
But maybe there was at the company that was upset and freaked out about what this software could be used for. And desperately, he coded something into the malware that if it attacks Tim’s site (or anyone who seems open minded) it should reveal just a very small malfunction. A malfunction that shows it nefarious purpose and evil means but one that is still believable as an accident - a simple programming error. Thus, he is mostly safe and he gets the message out. But now I have revealed him. Yikes.
Comment spam makes profit incrementally, from what I gather. It’s designed to work en masse across many domains, pulling from their PageRank to increase that of the target.