You gotta give ’em credit for trying. Here’s a sample of some memorable spam emails I’ve noticed in the past few days.
Category: tech
Joel on Software
“Just because you’re a programmer doesn’t mean you have to be the help desk for a dozen friends, relatives, and the people in the apartment next door. Does it?”
Folder Parsing
Some musing on a technical folder parsing problem I was working on (do you understand recursion?).
Microsoft asks for help from hackers
This is actually quite refreshing, in a way. It’s good to see them trying to drive the point of security home to their programmers & executives. Who knows? Maybe Windows really will become more secure.
Backscatter X-Ray Technology
According to this article over at Bruce Schneier’s blog, there’s a new X-Ray system that can literally “see” through clothes (in the way that many of us imagined those old “x-ray glasses” advertised on the back of cereal boxes would work). And they’re planning on using it to scan people.