DSLReports Study: 8 Hours 'til the Spam Hits 348
Masem writes: "In a rather interesting study at DSLReports, it was observed that email addresses published on a web site recieved spam within 8 hours of being posted, showing how aggressive the harvesters are working. In particular, a special link was set up on the main page that by following the link, the site generated an email address that was trackable to the IP that called the link, and not published anywhere else at any time. In the specific case, in only 8 hours after the email address was created, it had recieved spam; since that time about 9 months ago, it's gotten around 100 pieces. Given the time and source of most of the emails, the authors believe that they've simply got someone at one end of a home broadband pipeline using open relay mail servers, and most likely being paid to redistribute spam on the email addresses they harvest."
Vigilante Justice (Score:1, Funny)
That's nothing... (Score:3, Funny)
Jason.
Spammed by the best (Score:3, Funny)
This + Giant laser of death (Score:2, Funny)
Sheesh, though, I hate spam. I get like 10 spam a day at my real email address, which people only can discover by talking to me (I don't post it or give it out for obvious reasons).
Maybe some kind of bulk-email tax could be imposed.... Even though I am firmly against internet tax, I think making the spammers pay for the mail (ala-junk mail via postal system) is the only solution.
telemarketers (Score:3, Funny)
Last week I applied for a telemarketing job.
Within hours I started getting calls, and I've gotten 5 a day since.
Re:To Spammer, please Harvest these addresses: (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sorry, Bob. So very, very sorry.
Re:To Spammer, please Harvest these addresses: (Score:4, Funny)
hotline@mpaa.org and cdreward@riaa.org.
Have some fun (Score:2, Funny)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <math.h>
#define MAX_DOMAINS 8
static char * domains[MAX_DOMAINS] =
{
"com", "edu", "biz", "net", "gov", "it", "ru", "info"
};
int getRandomLength( void )
{
float val = (float)rand();
val = val / RAND_MAX;
val = val * 20;
return (int)val;
}
char getRandomChar( void )
{
float val = (float)rand();
val = val / RAND_MAX;
val = val * 26;
return (char)( ((int)val) + 0x61 );
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char c;
char buf[1000];
FILE * fp;
int accountLength;
int subDomainLength;
int bufIndex;
int i, g;
int gencount = atoi( argv[1] );
printf( "Generating %i accounts.\n", gencount );
fp = fopen( "emaillist.html", "w" );
if ( fp == 0 ) return 0;
for ( int dcount = 0; dcount < MAX_DOMAINS; dcount++ ) {
g = gencount;
while ( g > 0 ) {
memset( buf, 0, sizeof( buf ) );
bufIndex = 0;
accountLength = getRandomLength();
subDomainLength = getRandomLength();
for ( i = 0; i <= accountLength; i++ ) {
c = getRandomChar();
buf[bufIndex] = c;
bufIndex++;
}
buf[bufIndex] = '@';
bufIndex++;
for ( i = 0; i <= subDomainLength; i++ ) {
c = getRandomChar();
buf[bufIndex] = c;
bufIndex++;
}
buf[bufIndex] = '.';
bufIndex++;
strcat( &buf[bufIndex], domains[dcount] );
fprintf( fp, "%s ", buf );
g--;
}
}
fclose( fp );
return 0;
}
Why not.... (Score:2, Funny)
One guy? (Score:5, Funny)
I say we've found a perfect target for testing that AC-130 Death Ray.
--Blair