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Monday, 30 June 2008
Stumbled on this today, while investigating dodgy user agent strings:
“Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.”
A distributed service which tracks and prosecutes spammers who scrape email addresses from websites?
Looks very promising and definitely worth looking into.
Monday, 23 June 2008
A few months ago I wrote about how most of our visitors come here via a Google search. A small percentage of those even use the search box on the top-right, once they get here.
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Monday, 16 June 2008
I received this “mainsleaze” spam a few days ago from Midas. Now this is supposed to be a reputable, mainstream company but stupid actions such as this are likely to damage their reputation for quite a while:
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Monday, 9 June 2008
I received this email, claiming to be from Dell, and offering to give me a free laptop, just for answering a short survey:
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Monday, 2 June 2008
Microsoft recently announced that it’s willing to pay people money for using their crappy search engine, provided the people buy something, and provided the people live in America.
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Microsoft aren’t after Google, they’re actually after Yahoo.
With their failed takeover attempt fresh in everyone’s minds, this might just be Microsoft’s “work with us or we’ll spend as much as we need to bury you” message to Yahoo.
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