Somewhere in an average house in an average neighbourhood in a Midwestern state, a data analyst collated data while breathing in the steam from yet another mug of coffee. Router lights twinkled as masses of data streamed over the ether.

A script was written, and then code was born into a personal Git repository. A brief scratch of a stubbled chin was followed by entering the new project name.

Spamcensor.

In the daylight hours of the following day, a loose standup meeting with colleagues, and during a minutes silence when no one had anything thing to say.

So, I made up this script last night and it looks a bit interesting...

A month later, the Git repro is swallowed up into the corporate Git host. Tests are made, rules are discussed and documented. A single site is chosen for validation. There are murmurings of assent and approval from corporate eyes.

A month later, a data analyst is analysing data. There's a Teams notification, there's an audible ping.

Corporate: Remove the single site filter
Analyst: But we're still analysing the false positives...
C: < ...three dancing dots... >
C: Remove the filter, and while you're at it, set the aggression factor to it's maximum level

Spamcensor is released network-wide. It immediately spreads across all sites. Searching, in full hunter-killer mode. Looking for keywords, for numbers, patterns, anything that looks remotely "unsafe".

Gone are the fashionista website references, gone are the Rupee loan helplines, gone are the promises of spells and witchcraft. No more cryptocurrency fraud, no more airline ticket transfer agencies, no more office cleaning supplies.

Spamcensor learns, strengthens, spreads, becomes more capable. Spammers are tramples underfoot like heat-weakened skulls. There are explosions on the horizon where spam-waves are eliminated before they've even been compiled.

Spamcensor focuses with laser precision on one single aim, to track spam to it's single source and wipe out unsolicited free marketing for once and for all, with one single query.

Have you seen this boy?

Somewhere in an average house in an average neighbourhood in a Midwestern state, a data analyst collated data while breathing in the steam from yet another mug of coffee. Router lights twinkled as masses of data streamed over the ether.

A script was written, and then code was born into a personal Git repository. A brief scratch of a stubbled chin was followed by entering the new project name.

Spamcensor.

In the daylight hours of the following day, a loose standup meeting with colleagues, and during a minutes silence when no one had anything thing to say.

So, I made up this script last night and it looks a bit interesting...

A month later, the Git repro is swallowed up into the corporate Git host. Tests are made, rules are discussed and documented. A single site is chosen for validation. There are murmurings of assent and approval from corporate eyes.

A month later, a data analyst is analysing data. There's a Teams notification, there's an audible ping.

Corporate: Remove the single site filter
Analyst: But we're still analysing the false positives...
C: < ...three dancing dots... >
C: Remove the filter, and while you're at it, set the aggression factor to it's maximum level

Spamcensor is released network-wide. It immediately spreads across all sites. Searching, in full hunter-killer mode. Looking for keywords, for numbers, patterns, anything that looks remotely "unsafe".

Gone are the fashionista website references, gone are the Rupee loan helplines, gone are the promises of spells and witchcraft. No more cryptocurrency fraud, no more airline ticket transfer agencies, no more office cleaning supplies.

Spamcensor learns, strengthens, spreads, becomes more capable. Spammers are trampled underfoot like heat-weakened skulls. There are explosions on the horizon where spam-waves are eliminated before they've even been compiled.

Spamcensor focuses with laser precision on one single aim, to track spam to it's single source and wipe out unsolicited free marketing for once and for all, with one single query.

Have you seen this boy?