Journal protogoogoo69's Journal: One possible SPAM solution... 4
The inspiration:
Had an idea today after reading this personal account about hacking the computer of a spammer (rodona garst) and then posting naked pictures of her on the net. Certainly, she's no pron star, so why she would even keep naked pictures of herself on a networked computer is beyond me.
The concept:
Anyway, according to this FTC study and this E-Mail Harvesting FAQ, most email harvesting programs scour web sites for the text "mailto:" and "string@string" in the html code. (duh!) So why not use the same techniques the RIAA is using to dupe p2p file-swappers? In fact, we could also throw in the same techniques used by web pages in the mid-90s to rank higher on WWW search engines by making the text the same color (or off by 1-hex) as the background, although this is detectable.
The Plan
We need thousands of unrelated websites to post (at least) one page with a whole bunch of "mailto:string@string". You could even throw in some "content" using the malevole text generator and its indistinguishable from any other webpage!
The Effect:
If you haven't heard, false-positives have been nothing but trouble for facial recognition software, RIAA music copyright detection software, and even our own spam filtering software. So why don't we give the spam harvesting software the same problems?
Had an idea today after reading this personal account about hacking the computer of a spammer (rodona garst) and then posting naked pictures of her on the net. Certainly, she's no pron star, so why she would even keep naked pictures of herself on a networked computer is beyond me.
The concept:
Anyway, according to this FTC study and this E-Mail Harvesting FAQ, most email harvesting programs scour web sites for the text "mailto:" and "string@string" in the html code. (duh!) So why not use the same techniques the RIAA is using to dupe p2p file-swappers? In fact, we could also throw in the same techniques used by web pages in the mid-90s to rank higher on WWW search engines by making the text the same color (or off by 1-hex) as the background, although this is detectable.
The Plan
We need thousands of unrelated websites to post (at least) one page with a whole bunch of "mailto:string@string". You could even throw in some "content" using the malevole text generator and its indistinguishable from any other webpage!
The Effect:
If you haven't heard, false-positives have been nothing but trouble for facial recognition software, RIAA music copyright detection software, and even our own spam filtering software. So why don't we give the spam harvesting software the same problems?
hahhahah (Score:1)
That is such an excellent page. (Score:2)
I like your idea about messing up the email harvesters with millions of false positives. I see two possible problems though. Are you thinking of using completely fake email addies like lawryt65431353lr@gklfe82567halg.com? I know the spam I get is html which loads a web bug located on their server when you open it. So if the email isn'
Re:That is such an excellent page. (Score:1)
This seemed like a good idea at the time, but I realized later that the spammers would just get faster computers to process through the false-positives, or they could just reject pages with too many addresses, etc. Wouldn't take too long to add these options to a harvesting program, either. Besides, this doesn't prevent them from still harvesting your address.
I guess the best solution right now is to put
Re:That is such an excellent page. (Score:2)
Just don't use THIS [freewebsites.com]picture. Sweet Jeesus don't use that picture.