Tuesday, April 22, 2003


Where Your Spam Comes From


The Center for Democracy and Technology published a fascinating study of incoming spam they received at addresses that they’d made publically accessible in various ways. It’s a really cool article, well worth reading. It confirms some things that I think savvy surfers have suspected for a while. For example, the overwhelming majority of the spam was received by addresses that were posted bare (i.e. not obscured by Javascript or entity-encoding tricks) on web pages. Addresses posted to USENET got grabbed too, but to a far lesser extent. The article also provides some common sense advice for protecting your email address. One trick I’ve been using for a while is to produce one-time email addresses when I sign up for things. It’s trivial if you have control of your own email server. Here’s how it works in OS X’s NetInfoManager.


:: Dave Walker 11:40 (EST/EDT) [+]

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