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Is someone trying to apply AI and Deep Learning to phishing attacks? One of the things which PG noted in "A Plan for Spam" back in the day, was that the Bayes c
by stcredzero 7y ago
Is someone trying to apply AI and Deep Learning to phishing attacks? One of the things which PG noted in "A Plan for Spam" back in the day, was that the Bayes classifier found markers of Spam he never would have thought of.
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
If Phishers are concentrating on fooling human beings in the same way that spammers were back in the day, they might be vulnerable to such techniques.
- nineteen999 7y agoThat is such a fascinating document. Back in late 2002 or early 2003 I did an implementation of the algorithm in that document in C (because I didn't understand Lisp) with the help of a more senior programmer at my company. Once my implementation started to work I was really amazed how such a simple algorithm could be so successful.