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Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal
From: Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:46:29 -0500
Also, one of the most successful selling points (and IMO one of the most successful detection methods) for modern spam products, is a large user base running an application that takes both user input (eg: marking something that made it to their inbox as spam) and automated cross communication (eg: 50,000 users received a message from 192.168.0.1 or 50,000 users received a message that has a hash value of blah). If there was an app that was run by many blog sites that would collect this data (hash of messages posted, IP postings across multiple sites, as well as looking to see what made it through the system and was later removed by hand/declared comment spam) it would definitely add to the success of mitigating this nuisance. I know these arent new ideas, but its early, and if something works for one type of spam, it should probably work for others. As for a semi-new idea(to me at least), since botnets are probably a main source of spam (both smtp and http-put), how about blacklisting botnet IP's? IP's which are gathered from those other 3 projects that Gadi mentioned on a different thread. It would be safer for all if the IP's were munged so that a nefarious individual running the app couldnt simply, get their update and commandeer a botnet army, but thats a whole 'nother issue in and of itself. -JP _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Gadi Evron (Feb 12)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Dude VanWinkle (Feb 13)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Gadi Evron (Feb 13)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal James Kehl (Feb 14)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Dude VanWinkle (Feb 14)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Gadi Evron (Feb 13)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Dude VanWinkle (Feb 13)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Stephen J. Smoogen (Feb 13)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Dude VanWinkle (Feb 13)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 13)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Gadi Evron (Feb 13)
- Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal Dude VanWinkle (Feb 13)