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“Sextortion”: The Numbers Show That What We Have Is a Failure of Education (bsdly.blogspot.com)
1 point by peter_hansteen on Oct 9, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The "Sextortion" spam is in technical terms mind-numbingly boring, following the same patterns as other spam to a fault, distinguishing itself only in the embarrasment approach to extortion.

Interestingly, this piece seems to be bot-labeled as "porn" for some DNS based blocklists, so the author has made the text available here too: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_numbers_show_we_have_a_failur...




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