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| 22 | 22 … | The other approach is to use social/trust networks. |
| 23 | 23 … | Services like Facebook or Twitter are significantly less vulnerable to spam (if you dont consider the ads spam). |
| 24 | 24 … | Instead of receiving personal messages from anyone one who knows your id/address on a social network, you only receive messages from other users you have "followed" or "friended". |
| 25 | 25 … | |
| 26 | -I like to call this a "Solicited Spam" system. | |
| 26 … | +We like to call this a "Solicited Spam" system. | |
| 27 | 27 … | Following someone on Twitter means you think they are human, or at least, an amusing bot. |
| 28 | 28 … | This is actually a pretty strong signal. |
| 29 | -Email doesn't an explicit social network, but the best spam filtered email systems (like gmail) can use the implicit social network in email: if I send you and email and you reply then we are "friends". | |
| 29 … | +Email doesn't have an explicit social network, but the best spam filtered email systems (like gmail) can use the implicit social network in email: if I send you and email and you reply then we are "friends". | |
| 30 | 30 … | |
| 31 | 31 … | Then graph analysis can be applied to the friend network - spammers may be isolated, or clustered together and can be filtered out. |
| 32 | 32 … | |
| 33 | 33 … | By building SecureScuttlebutt around a social network, preventing spam becomes easy. |
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