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Honeypots for Spammers

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

I saw this site recently. It is a collaborative effort to identify servers hosting email address harvesters for spammers. They do this by dynamically creating email addresses that encode the time and visitor IP address. They have some interesting statistics on their site along with advice for avoiding spambots. I have seen some nice research efforts in the past using honey pots to analyze hacker techniques and monitor worm activity.

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