Wednesday's portion of hahaha-ing. This is the work of a pragmatic genious, the revenge of the nerds or call it whatever you want the idea is simple - what gets detected as spam gets printed and shred in real-time for interactivity. How much would it cost for a Fortune 500 organization to implement such a feature, a "fortune" by itself for sure, but an anti-spam vendor looking to differentiate its headquarters might be interested in implementing such a system for their corporate clients to see while walking around."Spamtrap" is an interactive installation piece the prints, shreds and blacklists spam email. It interacts with spammers by monitoring several email addresses I have created specifically to lure in spam. I do not use these email addresses for any other communication. I post individual email addresses on websites and online bulletin boards that cause them to be harvested by spambots and then to start receiving spam. Because I know that all email sent to these email addresses are spam, I have set the installation to print and then shred each email as it arrives."
Read more about the Spamtrap in this blog. There's simply so much spam these days, you can even create large data sets in order to render surrealistic spam art paintings, no kidding.
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