This article continues down the same path as Teaching Akismet Part 1: I am good with a look at how Akismet could be used for nefarious purposes. In the first post we learned that user input determines what Akismet thinks is spam. In this article, that idea is expanded in order to teach akismet to be bad. Below are listed three potential applications of the idea that Akismet can be taught things.
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Introduction: Part 1 of a 2 part series focused on how Akismet can / could be taught good or evil. Part 1 below explains the situation I found myself in, and the steps that I took to remove myself from Akismet’s list of comment spammers. Part 2 introduces some theoretical concepts for the creation of spamming networks.

For the past couple of days, Akismet (a popular comment spam fighting service provided by Automattic et al) had me pegged as a comment spammer. I didn’t know that Akismet was doing this, I only figured it out after several random blogs refused to post comments I had made.
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