I made the Internet a little better today
By llauren on May 21, 2007 in english, geek
navelfluff and i are members of The Honeypot Project, which lays out honeypot “traps” for spammers to fall into, get caught and identified. Which is nice. And the good part is that i don’t really have to do much about it. There’s an invisible piece of code on all the navelfluff web pages that look like an email address. If you mail it, you are stamped as evil. There are mail servers that look like genuine mail servers, except they’re not (in fact, they are server names that point to the honeypot mail servers). And if you mail them, you’re stamped as evil.
Well, a previously unknown spammer IP address was just caught in a honeypot mail server that i’ve donated. Ha.
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