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Re: [Asrg] define spam

2003-04-03 16:08:37

On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 02:37  PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

Clearly everything that is received by a honey pot is almost
certain to be indiscriminate. there is a small chance that
a message could get in one honeypot through accidental
mistyping of a name. it is almost certain that any message that
shows up in multiple honeypots is spam.


Trap and honeypot addresses also get leaked over time, and get used as attack vectors. If you know, for instance, that a domain will blackhole any site that sends to trapperjohn@<domain>, then you simply start forging email from domains or sites you want in trouble to that address. You can raise all sorts of havoc depending on how trusting the trap is that it's not being used to attack things.


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