The 2009 Spam Conference at MIT

For reasons unknown to me the Spam Conference in MIT for 2009 is happening but is not being advertised on the usual http://spamconference.org/ URL. If you are interested in attending then you need to hunt down the page http://projects.csail.mit.edu/spamconf/.

There you'll find that the conference is taking place March 26-27, 2009 at MIT and you'll also find the Call for Papers. The submission deadline is March 9, 2009 and the topics being accepted are:

• phishing, spyware
• spit (spam over internet telephony)
• spim (spam over instant messenger)
• SMS spam
• MMORPG spam
• blog spam
• trackback spam
• image spam
• stock pump-and-dumps
• email con games
• exploit marketing
• identity theft
• zombie bots and bot armies
• antispam systems
• hardware antispam countermeasures
• software antispam countermeasures
• wetware (a.k.a., liveware, meatware, i.e., user errors)
• blue-ware (i.e. employing the police).

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