Comments on: Stop it: “email AT domain DOT com” is making a spammer’s job easier http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/ A page to show up when I'm google stalked Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:28:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Great Geek Manual » Link Round-Up: January 14, 2010 http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-366 The Great Geek Manual » Link Round-Up: January 14, 2010 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:01:34 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-366 [...] GDrive Is Coming Official Google Blog: In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident–albeit a significant one–was something quite different … …we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists… Police fight cellphone recordings – The Boston Globe Protecting your email with ‘AT domain DOT com’ is making it easier to find [...] [...] GDrive Is Coming Official Google Blog: In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident–albeit a significant one–was something quite different … …we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists… Police fight cellphone recordings – The Boston Globe Protecting your email with ‘AT domain DOT com’ is making it easier to find [...]

]]> By: chris http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-362 chris Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:37:14 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-362 Just wrote it myself! It was an utter hack...but collected some emails. Just wrote it myself! It was an utter hack…but collected some emails.

]]> By: Andy http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Andy Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:54:23 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-361 @chris The official PHP site is another site where you would expect the admins to know better - all user generated content is presented along with a "name at domain dot tld" email address. For that reason I created a free open-source solution that handles all your mailto obfuscation needs with a single line of PHP code that you paste into your document's HEAD section. It does all the rest automagically. It's called PrivateDaddy and you can read more about it at http://www.privatedaddy.com/. Hope you don't mind the shameless plug :-) 10x, Andy @chris
The official PHP site is another site where you would expect the admins to know better – all user generated content is presented along with a “name at domain dot tld” email address.
For that reason I created a free open-source solution that handles all your mailto obfuscation needs with a single line of PHP code that you paste into your document’s HEAD section. It does all the rest automagically. It’s called PrivateDaddy and you can read more about it at http://www.privatedaddy.com/. Hope you don’t mind the shameless plug :-)

10x,

Andy

]]> By: Romario Gonzales http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Romario Gonzales Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:05:55 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-360 Good observation. Btw, have you written the E-Mail extraction code yourself or was it a Perl module or something similar? Would you give us more details on it? Thanks. Good observation. Btw, have you written the E-Mail extraction code yourself or was it a Perl module or something similar? Would you give us more details on it?

Thanks.

]]> By: Oliver Nassar http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Oliver Nassar Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:30:02 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-357 I'm signing you up for so much spam: chris@varenhor.st I’m signing you up for so much spam: chris@varenhor.st

]]> By: Richard Schneeman http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-356 Richard Schneeman Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:22:25 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-356 Good info! There are also a few other alternatives to images, that protect your address: You can use a free disposable email when you give out your address, and use a disposable contact form on your site to prevent your address being picked up by spam bots. They can't spam your real address, if you never give it out!!! I check this link for a contact form (note, i am a developer) http://www.whyspam.me/forms/HQ Good info! There are also a few other alternatives to images, that protect your address:

You can use a free disposable email when you give out your address, and use a disposable contact form on your site to prevent your address being picked up by spam bots.

They can’t spam your real address, if you never give it out!!!

I check this link for a contact form (note, i am a developer)

http://www.whyspam.me/forms/HQ

]]> By: David Kelso http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-355 David Kelso Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:49:27 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-355 Disagree. http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfuscate-e-mail-addresses-compared/ Disagree.

http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfuscate-e-mail-addresses-compared/

]]> By: uberVU - social comments http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-354 uberVU - social comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:36:14 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-354 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by willyf: If you use email AT domain DOT com to hide your e-mail address from spammers, you might want to try something else. http://bit.ly/4rG1jk... Social comments and analytics for this post…

This post was mentioned on Twitter by willyf: If you use email AT domain DOT com to hide your e-mail address from spammers, you might want to try something else. http://bit.ly/4rG1jk…

]]> By: Guy At HockeyBias dot com http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Guy At HockeyBias dot com Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:55:45 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-353 Fascinating... Fascinating…

]]> By: Kevin Ebaugh http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making-a-spammers-job-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Kevin Ebaugh Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:46:51 +0000 http://varenc.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=10#comment-352 Agreed! I've never seen a spike in spam from posting my gmail address on message boards, comments, etc. -Kevin, kevin@ebaugh.org :) Agreed! I’ve never seen a spike in spam from posting my gmail address on message boards, comments, etc.

-Kevin, kevin@ebaugh.org :)

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