Psychohistorical Spam
I’ve been receiving spam whose texts have obviously been generated by a Markov chain, with text from Foundation stories as input, to evade Bayesian spam filters. Each had just one line of text before the payload in an image.
Subject: your toy nation. This no Foundation, will doesn’t it none the if, you
you see that my first appearance standing. Before you’ve been Your truth of half goes to those caught it was almost every The
Subject: course, is HARI SELDON you, so? Pirenne, sipped at the system,
course of the words the visiplate). course that Trantor, adjournment rang out what them or all of
Subject: of the populace undoubtedly. SELDON; said no I’m referring to what
of the real thing, Hardin continued I would not one of Anacreon? Not of). There is merely the Jump was no promises attention to
Given that I read it in an email client with a Bayesian spam filter, it worked.
Truly, Asimov’s words will live forever. Their precise order may suffer.
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