Update: A privacy policy was added on August 3, 2004. See the post Prospect Performance Scam Update for more info. I caught an interesting commercial last night on BBC America. And by “interesting” I mean “sickeningly sleazy and deeply disturbing.” You see a Generic White Man in front of a computer, speaking miscellaneous vaguaries about… Continue reading Cheesy TV Ads are an Elaborate Privacy Scam
Category: Spam
Dictionary Attack Update
Well the on-going dictionary attack continues to go on. I’ve decided that it’s not a “true” dictionary attack because the addresses targeted aren’t nearly random enough. They’re all reasonable-seeming usernames (like Salazar, May, Dawson, etc) rather than the kind of bob1, bob2, bob3 progression normally characteristic of a dictionary attack. My current assumption is that… Continue reading Dictionary Attack Update
On-Going Dictionary Attack
Update: I was beaten into submission and disabled my catch-all. More info in the post Dictionary Attack Update</update> A “dictionary attack” is a spammer tactic wherein spam is sent to random addresses at a given domain in hopes that some of it will get through to some willing eyeballs. It earns its name because the… Continue reading On-Going Dictionary Attack