Damn side-effects. If only they were using the Liberticide Monad to encapsulate and keep track of this kind of dangers, we would live in a safer world...
So there are two major techniques to harvest emails : browse webpages, and browse outlook on hijacked computers...
My address has fallen thanks to a third technique : brute force ! This is not exactly on topic here but I was wondering if it happened to anyone here.
I received an email with something like 50 recipients, and all of them were combinations of 6 letters + @gmail.com. It was kind of weird that the spammer didn't hide the other addresses by the way. Anyway, it is easy to determine which addresses are valid by simply checking the "mail error" answers ; thus mine got caught this way.
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Damn side-effects. If only they were using the Liberticide Monad to encapsulate and keep track of this kind of dangers, we would live in a safer world ...
Damn, I can see the brand new sound and visual geeky ringtone ...
"dzzzt. help me obiwan kenobi, you're my only hope ! dzzzt."
So there are two major techniques to harvest emails : browse webpages, and browse outlook on hijacked computers ...
My address has fallen thanks to a third technique : brute force ! This is not exactly on topic here but I was wondering if it happened to anyone here.
I received an email with something like 50 recipients, and all of them were combinations of 6 letters + @gmail.com. It was kind of weird that the spammer didn't hide the other addresses by the way. Anyway, it is easy to determine which addresses are valid by simply checking the "mail error" answers ; thus mine got caught this way.