Spam Honeypots

14 Jan 2005

There has been some talk in the last while about Project Honeypot. Their aim is to provide addresses on websites for email harvesters to get in order to catch them. The addresses that get served up are unique for each visitor, so should one of them receive spam they will know which IP is to blame for the harvesting.

Some articles mentioning them are on tech:knowledge and on Security Focus, read those for a much better overview of what is going on, also check out their FAQ.

I signed up, so should you.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Friday, January 14, 2005 at 4:08 PM

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Donated an MX.

Unfortunatly their PHP, Perl and MT scripts dont leave much for my Python based site.

Colin Alston | January 15, 2005 8:12 AM | Reply

Python version of the Project Honey Pot script coming soon. Maybe by the end of the week.

EastDakota | January 17, 2005 1:00 PM | Reply

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