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New Attacks on Spam

Posted by michael on from the war-machine-springs-to-life-opens-up-one-eager-eye dept.

AttackOfTheDictionaries writes "Project Honey Pot started operating back in November. The Project provides its participants with a script that generates fake webpages with unique honeypot email addresses. The end result is that Project Honey Pot can connect email harvesters' IP addresses with the spam received by those honeypot email addresses. Which is pretty nifty, but left some people asking how that would help legal attacks on spam. Well, it seems that some lawyer over at SecurityFocus has an answer."

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  1. Is it just me? by Celt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just me or half the story is one big long link??

    AttackOfTheDictionaries writes "Project Honey Pot started operating back in November. The Project provides its participants with a script that generates fake webpages with unique honeypot email addresses. The end
    result is that Project Honey Pot can connect email harvesters' IP
    addresses with the spam received by those honeypot email addresses. Which is pretty nifty, but left some people asking how that would help legal attacks on spam. Well, it seems that some lawyer over at SecurityFocus has an answer."

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  2. Not Yay by Gabrill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Google now returns crap web pages! As if it wasn't bad enough that google doesn't filter out the retail sites for non-retail searches.

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