Hello,
On 12/09/2003 12:26 AM, Daniel Hahler wrote:
I proudly announce the first release of my first PHP script: spambothoney.
It provides a class to generate different types of email addresses (random invalid, combination of users/hosts, with spambots IP/host, "binary" output) and is meant to pollute the crawling spambots that harvest email addresses from webpages.
It uses a MySQL database for configuration (through web-interface) and for logging purposes.
I would be glad, if this is of some interest for you and you would take a look: http://thequod.de/comp/mysoft/spambothoney (direct download: http://thequod.de/action.php?download=1)
That is curious. This seems to be the second class that I see that seems to be for the same purpose. The other class also seems to be meant to generate honey pot e-mail addresses.
Class: Honey Pot http://www.phpclasses.org/honeypot
I'm especially interested into security issues, but feedback in general is very appreciated..
I read something about e-mail honey pots and I am afraid that may not be as useful as you think. When you say polluting crawling spambots you will probably be causing harm to innocent mail servers. Let me explain.
The latest spamming strategies consist on using valid sender addresses of inocent companies. Therefore, when you make up invalid addresses, all the bounces will go to the innocent companies mail servers. The more invalid addresses you make up the more harm you cause to innocent companies.
Anyway, you may want to contribute your class also to the PHP Classes site so you can get the feedback of tens of thousands of potential users that are notified when a new class is published. Despite your class seems to do the same as the other above, it will also be approved for publishing and let the users decide which is more useful.
hi,
not only the bounces are the problem, think of the traffic and the 'innocent' isp's. ;-) i think that's not the best method for fighting against spam.
ciao SVEN
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