Tag: Legit

Are machines really the “bad guys”?

Do you know what this is? Of course you do! This, along with some other strange stuff, has gained popularity and become part of our virtual life when browsing the web. CAPTCHAs (as they’re known) are one example of a Turing test: a challenge-response criteria that is used to determine the probability that a remote being is actually a human vs. a computer that’s trying to mimic a human response. (Mar 31, 2010)

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(Un)subscribe me

Hundreds of emails get blocked daily by your spam filters, but sometimes one slips through. You look it over and it appears to be very legitimate. You don’t remember clicking ‘Yes’ to subscribe to this newsletter, but you see the classic, “You are receiving this because you subscribed to one of our partners… blah, blah, blah… and this is an excuse for us to send you spam. Yeah, it’s true: XYZ company is one of our partners, we do their mass mailing and we grabbed your address at the same time!” So, now you’re tempted to click the Unsubscribe button, but how can you tell if it’s legit? And how do you know that clicking unsubscribe won’t tell the spammer, “Hey I’m alive and I actually read what you sent - send me more”? (Mar 17, 2010)

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