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Early on (this has been going on for years), I used to use the algorithm to generate replies. The problem is that most of what Markov creates is no good (he started as a bot on an IRC channel as someone quit IRC, so while not a replacement he was there as a substitute) but occasionally comes out with brilliant content. Sifting through that for content that almost makes sense to a recruiter is hard. The phone number used to be a real number too. If you called it you were played Rick Astley's never gonna give you up interspersed with a voice saying things like, "Connecting you to your extension","Please hold while we connect you","The person you are trying to reach is not here, redirecting to mobile" etc. and on loop every few minutes. Someone once connected for a good 15 minutes and about 3-4 full iterations of Never Gonna Give You Up.

The UK Infosec recruitment industry is a ghetto (to paraphrase Zed Shaw) and I never targeted recruiters, only occasionally responding to those that targeted Markov.



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