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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, 21 April 2008
An interesting piece in The Melbourne Age on the health hazards stemming from pressures of blogging for money.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Quite a while back I outlined from personal experience one way dodgy sellers continue to scam buyers on Ebay. Well here’s another one, except even the Ebay support people can’t explain how this particular scam works.
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Monday, 31 March 2008
There’s a good article over at The CEO Refresher about the things they don’t teach you in management training which outlines why working with other people is often the most difficult aspect of any office worker’s job.
Monday, 3 March 2008
Here’s a portion of the reservation form at Southwest Airlines. Can you spot what’s wrong with it?
Yep, apparently passengers aged 2 and over are adults, while passengers aged under 12 are children.
Confused? So are Southwest Airlines too.
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