March 29th, 2006
New Device Stops Spam at Home
By Chief Gadgeteer, Gizmos for Geeks
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews.
A new consumer device, called the Spam Cube, claims to stop 96 - 99% of spam regardless of your computer platform or the type of e-mail you use, and it plugs right into your home network. Oh yeah, and it works without a subscription. Now my interest is piqued. Works without a subscription, without updates? As a sys admin who has worked with SpamAssassin, the Open Source community’s venerable spam tagger, I’m really curious. What sort of magic algorithms is this little company using? Will it still work well in a few years, or even 6 months? The war between spam and spam-recognition has been something of an arms race or of escalation. Everytime you think you’ve contained 99% of it, spammers seem to come up with a new method to avoid your spam-blockers. So how does Spam Cube do it? I really have to try this to believe it, but at $150 a pop, I’m not about to shell out that much for it. So far, Gmail does enough of a decent job for me not to worry about more than 5 spams per day.
Source: Gizmos for Geeks.
Thunderbee says:
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It’s amazingly efficient. I’ve been using it for some time now, and it just works. No admin, no updates, just flag your spam and it learns.
I’m quite sure you could make an appliance with it (or with some of the other filters like bogofilter).
March 29th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
New Device Stops Spam At Home
Chief Gadgeteer of RealTechNews writes A new consumer device, called the Spam Cube, claims to stop 96 - 99% of spam regardless of your computer platform or the type of e-mail you use, and it plugs right into your home network. Oh yeah, and it works wit…
March 29th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Josh says:
Looks like according to their web site they use patent pending A.I. that is educated by a remote hybrid expert system. Definitely is NOT spam assasin, they have 11 patents pending supposedly.
http://www.spamcube.com/howdoesitwork/spam/#ai
March 30th, 2006 at 6:47 am