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Geek Culture / Anyone here use projecthoneypot.org ?

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 8th May 2007 17:22
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I was browsing through some articles on Wikipedia about Spam (I'm getting a little on my website) and I came across a link to www.projecthoneypot.org.

This seems like quite a cool site. If you own your own website, you can setup a "honeypot" that email harvesters will go to for email addresses. ProjectHoneyPot will then (somehow) track those IP addresses for spam. Seems quite cool.

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BatVink
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Posted: 8th May 2007 18:45
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Looks good. I wouldn't expect miracles, but it's far better than any other campaigns I've seen.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 8th May 2007 19:47
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I've heard of similar honeypot projects several years back. Overall I think its a good idea, but like Batvink I'm not too optimistic about results.


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Jess T
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Posted: 9th May 2007 07:09
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The idea of a Honey Pot is quite old and is used often on most big networks.

It sucks a hacker or malicious person (in this case, Spammer) into an area that they beleive to be the system which they can attack all they like, but will never reach the actual system.

Fake email addy's on websites is a popular HoneyPot technique (like contact@thisdomain.com which noone ever checks ).

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