SONY's New Patent Gets Canned By Spam Filters

Posted by zanek on Apr 18, 2006 5:28 AM EDT
Email Battles; By BJ Gillette
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When SONY applied for a patent for attaching scripts to messages that force email recipients to respond, it seemed like a capital idea. But by the time a patent number was churned out five years later, many email recipients were safely ensconced behind network filters designed to strip or mangle most attached scripts, which have become well-known carriers of malware. What's SONY's hot patent factory to do with a patent that's gone cold?

[First a rootkit, now this. Maybe they should quit while they're behind. - dcparris]

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