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    Subliminal Spam.....apparently

    From ZDNet
    http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.ne...9667/207784/0/
    PandaLabs warns of banned subliminal advertising appearing in spam

    Banned subliminal messages that could potentially manipulate users' subconscious have appeared in spam, according to PandaLabs.

    Users opening the message see what appears to be a normal advertisement for online stocks. Yet the message also displays a rapid series of images, for 10 to 40 milliseconds, which include the word "buy", according to PandaLabs.

    Controversy has surrounded subliminal messages since they were reportedly tested in advertising in the 1950s in the US. Nobody has ever shown that they work but subliminal images are banned worldwide in TV and cinema advertising.

    Even though the spam recipient is not aware of the images, they can be influenced by them without realising it, according to Luis Corrons, director of PandaLabs. "This is the first time we have detected an Internet threat that uses subliminal techniques."

    Subliminal techniques could become more sophisticated, he warned. "Think about the damage that this type of message could cause, especially to young users," he said, adding a suggestion that "appropriate security tools which include antispam and content filtering technologies will help prevent threats like this from reaching users' mailboxes."

    Only a few examples of subliminal advertising have been tried. Campaigners for President Mitterand reportedly edited single-frame insertions of his portrait into French news broadcasts in 1988, while police in America tried to use the technique to catch a serial killer in 1978. Kansas TV station KAKE-TV transmitted a subliminal message for the murderer to turn himself in: his subsequent arrest in 2005 is not thought to be connected to the experiment.
    Anyone seen any?
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    Bleh, my email client doesn't download images in emails unless I choose to.

    Though I'd like to see one just to see if I can notice it and if it works

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    Ha ha ha, I can see the Daily Mail tomorrow. It will have to come under the Asylum Seeker Hell headline but it will be there!

    I don't think this will work as subliminal messages rely on several conditions being met, its a nice try by them though. Bless 'em.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZDNet
    ...while police in America tried to use the technique to catch a serial killer in 1978. Kansas TV station KAKE-TV transmitted a subliminal message for the murderer to turn himself in: his subsequent arrest in 2005 is not thought to be connected to the experiment.
    Well...maybe it just takes awhile to work...

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    /me runs off to send 50,000 emails containing subliminal messages to to send chuckskull money.

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