Story idea
May. 2nd, 2006 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoWell, a fragment: an unscrupulous systems administrator makes money by investing in the penny stocks featured in pump-and-dump spams. This is made possible by correlating arrival times and alphabetical addresses across a bunch of networks: his program looks for signs that the majority of the spam blast has not yet been sent, then buys those stocks. If the spam run appears to be near its end, he stays away. The various networks all autoreport spam to him as part of a razor-style antispamming system.
(Later: this story brought to you by the realization that 84% of the spambox at work is stock pumping schemes.)
(Later: this story brought to you by the realization that 84% of the spambox at work is stock pumping schemes.)
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Date: 2006-05-02 07:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-02 07:48 pm (UTC)