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Where Does Spam Come From? No, Really?
jnazario writes "The Center for Democracy and Technology has recently put together a really neat paper studying the methods by which spammers get your email addresses. The report posted otherwise unused email addresses in a variety of locations, using different techniques for visibility (ie HTML encoding vs plaintext) and then watched what accumulated after six months. They generated some interesting results into the methods by which spammers can track you (with publicly available websites containing your bare email address being the most popular method) and even some techniques to stop spam, such as HTML encoding your email address. A very interesting read."
This seems familiar.
that Spam comes from a 'SPIG'. Cousin to the pig, but has to be mechanically seperated before being canned and served.
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tripe n.
1. Stomach tissue of a ruminant and especially of the ox used as food
2. Something poor, worthless, or offensive
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Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka Baghdad Bob). He's always telling us that:
"Americans are not in Baghdad"
or
"Loose wieght in just 2 weeks"
or
"Make money fast"
or
"Requested information"
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Where do duplicate slashdot articles come from? No, really?
I like to have fun with this one. Make sure that you take out any "serial numbers" which might be embedded in the link. Call as many dynamic scripts on the page as you can.
#!/bin/bashCOUNT=0
while [ $COUNT -lt 2000 ]; do
lynx -dump $1?YOU_FILL_MY_MAILBOX_WITH_UNSOLICITED_CRAP_AND_
let COUNT=COUNT+1
echo $COUNT
done
Okay, it's ugly. And who knows if they actually check their weblogs? But it makes me feel better.
Besides, they were warned on my webpage, which outlines all the policies with regard to sending e-mail to my domain.
A really neat extension would be to have a script which parses the e-mail for links, de-fluffs them (to remove redirects through Yahoo and obfuscators like that) and automatically hits each and every one of the URLs given... but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
You see, there's a mummy spam and a daddy spam. When they love each other very much they, well, sort of, get together, you know, and they make a new spam.
Stick Men
Spam comes in a can,
It was put there by a man,
In factory downtown.
And if I had my little way,
I'd get spammed every day!...
"I only speak the truth"
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Just remember, SPAM doesn't kill people
People who get spammed, kill people.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
* Short e-mail addresses are easy to guess, and may receive more spam.
For further information, please contact Ari Schwartz at the Center for Democracy & Technology, 202-637-9800, ari@cdt.org.
Did anyone else find that rather funny?
Mikey-San
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