Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Seeking high and low. |12:15 PM| I'm still searching for a programmer willing to do the equivalent of "Pro Bono" work on the Justice application. I'm waiting on a response from the moderator of a message board on recruiting someone there, and I've been quietly mentioning the project to friends. Hopefully I can track someone down.
Hmm, I just thought of someone, a guy called "Dancing Bear". I'm not joking, that's his handle. I'll try emailing him when I have access to a real internet connection.
Things that would make me target a spammer:
-Misleading subject lines I.E. "Hey there champ! Your parents were just killed and I just wa(#35bb23v5"
-Non-clever insulting subject lines. A fake example of a subject line clever enough to avoid wrath: "YOUR DICK IS AS SMALL AS YOUR MORGAGE COULD BE!"
-Those spam emails that are nothing but random words, since their only purpose is to clog up the adaptive spam filters. You might have seen these emails before and not known what the fuck they were. They are a seemingly random set of uncommon words "Buffoon, Captive, vitriol". These aren't the rantings of a dying SAT word prep writer. They are an attempt to make more advanced spam filters worthless. A person reads it, realizes it's spam, and tags it as such. Then their ISP, or their spam software (if they have some) tries to adapt their definitions of spam to include the words in that email, weakening the filters. This is pretty clever, but fucking reprehensible. Imagine if the telemarketers found a way to make the "Do Not Call" list prevent your friends and family from calling you.
The problem with attacking these guys is that I don't often see any images or other web info in them, making an attack difficult.
-Clear scams. Paypal "phishing" schemes, or ebay, or Bank of America, whatever. If you're not familiar with these, it's a phony email made to look like Paypal or whoever needs you to "verify" some of your information. You can click a link or sometimes you can fill the info right into the email. These are (of course) bogus links and sites and the only person getting this info is a thief.
These make a great target since the actions the spammer is taking are illegal, and they require webhosting.
As a side note, these jackasses are why you can't use the @ symbol in URL's for the purposes of making easy-login URLs. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry.
Though the goddamn Nigerian 419 scams, and their ilk from any other country are clearly scams, they don't often use a webhost so they would be difficult at best to attack.
If you have any suggestions, feel free to contact me. You could also post them in this thread since guest posting should be turned on. You won't even have to register.
Seeking high and low. |12:15 PM| I'm still searching for a programmer willing to do the equivalent of "Pro Bono" work on the Justice application. I'm waiting on a response from the moderator of a message board on recruiting someone there, and I've been quietly mentioning the project to friends. Hopefully I can track someone down.
Hmm, I just thought of someone, a guy called "Dancing Bear". I'm not joking, that's his handle. I'll try emailing him when I have access to a real internet connection.
Things that would make me target a spammer:
-Misleading subject lines I.E. "Hey there champ! Your parents were just killed and I just wa(#35bb23v5"
-Non-clever insulting subject lines. A fake example of a subject line clever enough to avoid wrath: "YOUR DICK IS AS SMALL AS YOUR MORGAGE COULD BE!"
-Those spam emails that are nothing but random words, since their only purpose is to clog up the adaptive spam filters. You might have seen these emails before and not known what the fuck they were. They are a seemingly random set of uncommon words "Buffoon, Captive, vitriol". These aren't the rantings of a dying SAT word prep writer. They are an attempt to make more advanced spam filters worthless. A person reads it, realizes it's spam, and tags it as such. Then their ISP, or their spam software (if they have some) tries to adapt their definitions of spam to include the words in that email, weakening the filters. This is pretty clever, but fucking reprehensible. Imagine if the telemarketers found a way to make the "Do Not Call" list prevent your friends and family from calling you.
The problem with attacking these guys is that I don't often see any images or other web info in them, making an attack difficult.
-Clear scams. Paypal "phishing" schemes, or ebay, or Bank of America, whatever. If you're not familiar with these, it's a phony email made to look like Paypal or whoever needs you to "verify" some of your information. You can click a link or sometimes you can fill the info right into the email. These are (of course) bogus links and sites and the only person getting this info is a thief.
These make a great target since the actions the spammer is taking are illegal, and they require webhosting.
As a side note, these jackasses are why you can't use the @ symbol in URL's for the purposes of making easy-login URLs. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry.
Though the goddamn Nigerian 419 scams, and their ilk from any other country are clearly scams, they don't often use a webhost so they would be difficult at best to attack.
If you have any suggestions, feel free to contact me. You could also post them in this thread since guest posting should be turned on. You won't even have to register.
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