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Real-time Spam Map

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-cool-idea dept.

iggychaos writes "Mailinator, the free, temporary email service gets a lot of spam (over a million emails a day). And with another cool application of Google maps, the site now shows a Spam Map indicating what sites are spamming mailinator in (nearly) real time. It's oddly addictive to poke around and see where the spam is actually coming from."

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  1. Hey! It's Steve Jobs!! by moehoward · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Looks like they count iTunes New Music Tuesday newsletter as spam.

    Does this mean we sign up Steve for a bunch of catalogs and junk mail to be sent to his home address?

    And why do almost all of the points on the map say 100 Emails received? Seems odd.

    I think this is not exactly what it's cracked up to be.

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  2. Not the source of spam by Underholdning · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More likely, this is a map of open relays and zombies.

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  3. Bill Gates and Google Tools... by MosesJones · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Ummm so when Bill said that they wanted to give people the tools to organise the information....

    How is Google not providing the tools? Seems to me that Google is providing better tools, just not requiring people to buy and operating system to use them.

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  4. Re:haha look at all the Americans by Ph33r+th3+g(O)at · · Score: 3, Insightful

    China is where the "bullet-proof hosting" services are mostly housed. You can't shake a stick at a group of spamvertised sites without hitting Chinanet. The emails themselves don't come from China because lots of intelligent mail admins block the whole country.

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