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Older than dirt. I got t-shirts older than you, kiddo.

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May 2	awarded	Nice Question
Apr 3	comment	Is there a spam storm? Thanks for that last bit. It's interesting how the new spam has successfully avoided the filters like that (when previously the IEEE spam filters worked quite well, compared to my wife's service). But, interestingly, after I marked a bunch of these things "Spam" in Thunderbird it started filtering them pretty aggressively.
Apr 2	awarded	Supporter
Apr 2	revised	Is there a spam storm? added 3235 characters in body
Apr 1	asked	Is there a spam storm?
Mar 11	awarded	Yearling
Oct 11	comment	Odd spam in a forum (Right now I'm going with the theory that it's Chinese students practicing their English -- perhaps as a game of sorts, to see if they'll be detected.)
Oct 11	comment	Odd spam in a forum @Ramhound -- Yep, but a bot doesn't make stupid spelling errors either.
Oct 10	awarded	Editor
Oct 10	revised	Odd spam in a forum added 642 characters in body
Oct 4	comment	Odd spam in a forum Except that many of these have no links. There is no link in either the post or the user's profile.
Oct 4	comment	Odd spam in a forum Yeah, but the crummy software (Mollom) on this forum doesn't do "reputation building" to any visible degree. Many first-time posts are blatant spam (with links), while many long-time users get their posts rejected by the "spam filter".
Oct 4	comment	Odd spam in a forum @Ramhound -- Yeah, it may be that they're copying the text from somewhere, but some effort is presumably going into it. And there are typos (like "mol" rather than "mold") and grammar errors that indicate that the text has been retyped and likely edited in some way from the source text.
Oct 4	asked	Odd spam in a forum
Apr 4	awarded	Scholar
Apr 4	accepted	What is the point of spam like this?
Mar 18	comment	How will security need to be changed if P=NP? @D.W. -- Thanks for the references. It appears that existing public key schemes are at risk, and with that the entire credentials network. That is most likely the weak link: As I read it, a replacement is needed BEFORE the first true massively parallel quantum computer goes online (if that ever happens), since breaking just one cipher places the entire system at risk.
Mar 17	comment	How will security need to be changed if P=NP? The quantum computing guys keep threatening us with infinitely fast computers that will supposedly be able to crack just about anything via brute force. Any comment about that? (I'm personally doubtful that their theories hold water, but if they do it could be bad.)
Mar 14	awarded	Nice Question
Mar 11	awarded	Student