A new form of spam...

Places the text using "hylography" in an image file: image files can contain bits that have nothing to do with the image and function as text when read by an engine.

There must be fascinating intellectual challenges in spam development, including the need to write in essence virtual and small machines that wake up they know not where in cyberspace, and get their code from an image.

I wouldn't know because I don't write viruses or spam, and I even should probably apologize for making a nonspam reply yesterday to a spamming attack.

I get just a little bit ashamed of myself when I think of the adminstrator of the Lamma Island site, or Dan here, because I free ride on these blog sites without contributing help. I don't have the time to do so, since I now find writing easier than low level hacking.

The administrators work very hard to keep the site alive.

Spam writing is probably all creative fun. Foo Fighting such as is performed by Lamma Gung and Dan is apparently much more tedious apart from implementing algorithms to recognize spam.

But how could you automatically recognize an image slightly degraded to contain text and code?