ความจริงเสมือนในเครือข่ายเน็ต (The virtual reality on the Net)
The search for "spambot" reveals:
(on Wikipedia) "A spambot is an automated computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam. Spambots usually create fake accounts and send spam using them, although in many cases it would be obvious that a spambot is sending it. This has led to the development of password-cracking spambots that are able to send spam using other people's accounts."
and a list of how spambots are used:
Spambot | drupal.org
https://drupal.org/project/spambot
8 ส.ค. 2552 - Spambot protects the user registration form from spammers and spambots by verifying registration attempts against the Stop Forum Spam ...
Spambot Beware! - Turnstep.com
www.turnstep.com/Spambot/
Spambot beware! How to detect, avoid, and harass spambots.
spambot from Bloke.com
www.spambot.com/
Search for items associated with PlanetBot.com. Have this feature on your web page. No CGI programming needed, just insert some HTML!
Spam bot für: Facebook,Skype,ICQ,MSN und co. - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aB5zPzfUI4
26 พ.ค. 2554 - อัปโหลดโดย RCGSoftware
Spam Bot New Download - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lupeyxQsQrc
22 พ.ค. 2552 - อัปโหลดโดย 61gg5
How to Avoid Spambots | Project Honey Pot
www.projecthoneypot.org/how_to_avoid_spambots.php
They do this by using "spambots," computer programs which automatically troll web pages and harvest email addresses. While Project Honey Pot helps you ...
This is reported in Australia
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Technology/2013/08/12/Rudd_admits_spam_Twitter_followers_895886.html
Spambots are automated programs that create fake social and email accounts to flood users with spam and a number appear to follow ... on the social media site.
Telltale signs of spambot Twitter accounts include those with little or no personal profile information combined with zero or few tweets and very few followers....
Most famous people on Twitter have spambot followers - and there's little they can do about it apart from the report the accounts and hope they're removed...
One hundred thousand Twitter followers can easily be bought anonymously online, with marketing companies offering to supply 100,000 new followers for as little as $274.
Followers can be added at a pre-prescribed rate, such as five per day or one per hour.
Facebook likes' can also be bought online for similar prices
In Thailand, there is no credible report on use of spambots on social media but this is a 5-year old technology with many 'open/public' recipes, spambots can be expected in a good number of Thai web boards (including government departments' websites).
Spambots are not restricted to the Net and PCs, they can even travel from tablets to phones and breed.
So what is the problem?
Can we believe any public poll/survey done over the Net?
Can we still trust statistics (counts or hits) on any page or article on the Net as 'reliable source of reference'? (Gaalaamasutta says --No--.)
How much spambots cost in loss productivity (bandwidth reduction) and wastage in resources?
...You sure have other thoughts or questions. Let us hear what you think.
Thank you for your knowledge of Spambot.
I ever heard only Spam mail.
So not to be trust the social network.
Maybe we back to use all the paper...hehehe
But i still no have tablet yet.
Hi ยง
: I say here is information, consider it carefully and decide for yourself --how you will use this info. But I do say this strongly "let's give a gift of life to trees. A tablet can be home to many thousands books; saving many many oxygen-giving and carbon dioxide-reducing trees."
...The “wisdom of crowds” has become a mantra of the Internet age. Need to choose a new vacuum cleaner? Check out the reviews on Amazon. Is that restaurant any good? See what Yelp has to say. But a new study suggests that such online scores don’t always reveal the best choice. A massive controlled experiment of Web users finds that such ratings are highly susceptible to irrational “herd behavior”—and that the herd can be manipulated.
Sometimes the crowd really is wiser than you. The classic examples are guessing the weight of a bull or the number of gumballs in a jar. Your guess is probably going to be far from the mark, whereas the average of many people’s choices is remarkably close to the true number.
But what happens when the goal is to judge something less tangible, such as the quality or worth of a product? According to one theory, the wisdom of the crowd still holds—measuring the aggregate of people’s opinions produces a stable, reliable value. Skeptics, however, argue that people’s opinions are easily swayed by those of others. So nudging a crowd early on by presenting contrary opinions—for example, exposing them to some very good or very bad attitudes—will steer the crowd in a different direction. To test which hypothesis is true, you would need to manipulate huge numbers of people, exposing them to false information and determining how it affects their opinions....