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Saying Goodbye to Our Russian Web Traffic Spammers
- bediger4000 11y agoSomewhat interesting, but kind of content free - there's no real discussion of what they did to rid themselves of Russian Web Traffic Spammers. What's really weird about this article (and the whole blog, really), is that they abbreviate "MalleableBytes" as MB(TM), with a "TM" superscript, every single time it appears. I personally find that kind of weird, or at least pretentious, and very disruptive to reading. Why do people "TM" and "R" and "C" superscript everything they possibly can?
- quadedge 11y agoUnfortunately, we are unable to discuss the details of the technology because the IP belongs to our employer, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R). In short, unlike filters and firewalls which handles spam poorly, MB uses machine learning to model the data it collects to identify web traffic spam. If you are interested to see it in action, send me (support@malleablebyte.org) your email and I can send you an invite to try it. As for the TM, that is what our legal department advice us to do. We are still employees of A*Star so we need to follow their rules. Hope this answers your question.
- bediger4000 11y agoAs for the TM, that is what our legal department advice us to do. Your legal department has no sense of style. Naturally, I'm not a lawyer, so I can say that putting a superscript "TM" on every possible thing makes you look like you're just following a checklist, or possibly did it automatically. Microsoft(TM)(C)(R) tends toward that kind of stuff in it's very, very corporate written material.
- quadedge 11y agoThanks for the feedback. :)