Project Honeypot looks like a very interesting attempt to curb comment spam (well, it's going after a little more than that, but comment spam is what I am interested in.) A "honeypot" is a server put on the web for the sole purpose of monitoring illicit activity (like maybe a server you put on the web that is open to attack, but you mean it to be attacked so you can observe the attackers - they think it is a "real" server but actually it's just a honeypot meant to trap them.) This project has set up many honeypots all over the web and have been silently collecting data on spammers. Now they are ready to release their data set so that anyone can tap into this collective knowledge. They have an Apache 2 module as well as an API. I'm going to try to write something against the API. This will be great if it works!
"silently collecting data on spammers"
those words give me goosebumps (of pleasure)
It gets better. They just announced this, the largest anti-spam lawsuit ever: On Thursday, April 25, 2007 at approximately 9:00am in a court in the Eastern District of Virginia, Project Honey Pot filed the largest anti-spam lawsuit ever. Seeking more than $1B in statutory damages, the suit was brought on behalf of our members. It targets a huge swath of spammers. If you've harvested email addresses or sent spam in the last two years, chances are you're on our radar screen and we're coming after you.
|
- jim 4-26-2007 5:27 pm
"silently collecting data on spammers"
those words give me goosebumps (of pleasure)
- tom moody 4-26-2007 5:35 pm
It gets better. They just announced this, the largest anti-spam lawsuit ever:
- jim 4-26-2007 9:24 pm