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Trouble is, those dastardly spammers are putting their ads in ever more innocent-seeming packets, like the one from my Australian friend. If every spam looked like that, I figured, I would lose the war. Already, the complexity of my filter list--with 300 entries--was making Eudora run like a tortoise...
...Intelliseek's software can be set up to monitor and query the databases of news sites, chatrooms and Usenet groups for trends, product information, gossip about your company and your competitors. "We identify the best sources for a topic, company or individual then mine the information automatically, aggregate it, filter it, clean it, index it, relevance-rank it, auto-categorize it and move it into the matrix," says Vora. Often the most useful information is already sitting on a company's own network. E-mail from customers and clients can be a goldmine if it's harvested and made searchable...
However, the old filter was easily defeated by misspellings of the artist or song title, allowing an underground network of “Napster code” to develop, where users would drop vowels to add letters to confuse the filter...
...from government and toward the individual. Multinational interest groups like Greenpeace and anti-globalism protesters can promote their aims and coordinate world campaigns instantly. Dissidents, rebels and terrorists can publicize, organize and attack in virtual territory beyond state control and reach wide audiences without trusting their message to the filter of the media. Thirteen of the 29 groups listed as "terrorists" by the U.S. State Department maintain websites. "Hactivist" groups are pushing causes from Kashmiri separatism to Palestinian nationhood to Brazilian anticorporatism. Though it's difficult to differentiate political campaigns from out-and-out vandalism, attrition.org, a security site, counted...
...Smart information filters are required, at least once every three months, to pop up a small box that says: "Filter on." Because of this requirement humans will not be able to use "the very distorted view of reality" defense in criminal trials...