Let Your CyberAlter Ego Share Information and Manage Spam
Joseph S. Kong, P. Oscar Boykin, Behnam A. Rezaei, Nima Sarshar, Vwani, P. Roychowdhury

TL;DR
This paper explores the use of networked cyber alter egos in a social network to share information and manage spam effectively, leveraging the network's topology for scalable, decentralized communication.
Contribution
It introduces a novel spam filtering system based on existing social network structures, enabling scalable, decentralized, and trust-based spam management without dedicated infrastructure.
Findings
Achieves near 100% spam detection rate
Maintains around zero false positives
Utilizes existing social network topology for scalability
Abstract
Almost all of us have multiple cyberspace identities, and these {\em cyber}alter egos are networked together to form a vast cyberspace social network. This network is distinct from the world-wide-web (WWW), which is being queried and mined to the tune of billions of dollars everyday, and until recently, has gone largely unexplored. Empirically, the cyberspace social networks have been found to possess many of the same complex features that characterize its real counterparts, including scale-free degree distributions, low diameter, and extensive connectivity. We show that these topological features make the latent networks particularly suitable for explorations and management via local-only messaging protocols. {\em Cyber}alter egos can communicate via their direct links (i.e., using only their own address books) and set up a highly decentralized and scalable message passing network that…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSpam and Phishing Detection · Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies · Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
