2011-07-28

flwyd: (xkcd don quixote)
2011-07-28 08:15 pm
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Adventures with a Webcam Chat Bot

If you're an AIM user, you may have recently had a chat bot try to start a conversation in pink or purple with you. The bot is pretending to be a young female that wants to strip over webcam, but it's really a credit card stealing scheme. A while ago, a sure way to identify this bot was to use the word "bot" in a message and they'd respond "lol im not a bot," but it seems like version 2 is a little more coy. Slightly inspired by this conversation, here's some amusement I had while programming last night.
34-line chat; warning: purple text ahead! )