Re: Spambot harvesting mails from bugs
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008, carbonated beverage wrote:
> I just submitted a bug report yesterday, and got hammered by a ton of
> mail delivery failure notices (about 500+) as spammers used my email
> address to spoof the From line.
These you should just discard if they do not come from MTAs that you
actually use.
> Are there plans to change the interface to hide the email addresses
> or otherwise obfuscate things so it's harder for automated
> harvesting?
We won't be obfuscating, however we do regularly ban botnets, and will
implement harvester traps in the near future. [None of this will
likely solve the problem completely, though, as messages to the bts
are archived in numerous places and are sent to various mailing lists
which are also publicly subscribeable.]
Don Armstrong
--
Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars
has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost
anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into
the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator.
-- Jeff Dege, jdege@winternet.com
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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