The AIM FishBot Phenomenon

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by arjunlall • 17 years ago

27 4 17 years ago

CalmQuiet• 17 years ago

Yes, it's probably useful to know that script kiddies know how screen scrape and that they are moving into "Do you have Prince Albert in the can?" 2.0

And they do us a real service in bringing home that what is fishy in our web experience may be phishy (or at least fishbotty). Do you want to wager whether somewhere in the bowels of a former Soviet state entrepre-criminals are exploring how to monetize such a process (and not intending to offer an opt-out option)?

It may take a little while to see if this pranksterism can turn sout, since we seem to be in the very early stages: there's not yet a wikipedia article on fishbot, and a sole Wired article ( http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/11/fishbot-roundup.html ) is concerned about robots, not webbots.

sant0sk1• 17 years ago

I've been hit by the [papa,phobic]coho a couple times in recent months. Its pretty lame.

0xdefec8• 17 years ago

Guess it's time to add a regex block feature to gaim. (block .*Coho)?

diN0bot• 17 years ago

reaction: this is awesome. sure, if you get connected to someone unpleasant that sux (the "14-yr-old" problem). otherwise, you get a neat little mystery and random but pleasant connection to a stranger. sounds fun.

The AIM FishBot Phenomenon

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