SPAM Hardware – The Cube Cometh

I CAME ACROSS this in yesterday’s NY Times. After countless unsuccessful attempts by the big boys to thwart SPAM from getting into our inboxes, the Spam Cube might sound promising. Using patent-pending Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, it will prevent SPAM from crashing your party, shifting it instead to the SPAM Cube sub-folder with an identifiable [SPAM] prefix pasted to each suspect message. What’s most different about the SPAM Cube approach, however, is that the Cube is a hardware device that sits between your PC and Modem (wired or wireless) or between your Router and Modem. One device can protect up to 4 networked PCs.

Of course, you’ll still have to sift through all of the re-routed messages in the event that it detoured a message that was indeed something that you wanted to arrive in your inbox. It does learn, though, and lets users educate it as to items that should not be considered SPAM in the future.

Unless you are unfortunate enough to be inundated with an enormous amount of SPAM, to the point of real time-consuming inconvenience – I would personally limit the amount of steps and be the SPAM detector myself, deleting anything that I don’t want to read as it comes in. But, for those out there who consider SPAM levels to be problematic, this might be the solution that you’ve been looking for? The same device has anti-virus and anti-phising capabilities built in.

tags: SPAM SPAM Cube computer hardware phising anti-virus Artificial Intelligence