LinuxLala’s Temple of Wisdom

My spam count is close to 80 per day. This is not normal. Somebody take me to the doctor!
No doc, I haven’t placed my email id on any public forum boards. No doc, my the last two articles don’t carry my email address. No doc, you are not listening, I have two mail accounts [...]

It all started two weeks ago. I woke up in the morning to a warm sunny day and logged in to check my yahoo mail. Up to this point all was routine; what was not were the messages I had recieved.
Three messages from support@yahoo.co.in, webmaster@yahoo.co.in and register@yahoo.co.in respectively. The first two said that the password [...]

People just can’t get off from the “Let there be light” scenario. Taking inspiration from here is the Anti-Spyware Coalition, which claims that it shall soon pronounce “Let there be a definition, of spyware”.
The coalition comprising makers of anti-spyware software will release a common lexicon and a definition soon.
But why wait for their definition? You [...]

Vnunet published a story a couple of days ago of a Trojan software being spread through email. The email warns that the recipients system has been ‘taken over’ and is distributing spam. The email has ‘Spam Report’ as it’s subject and was first ‘reported’ on July 7.

All anti-spam softwares of today boast of Heuristic spam filtering to help keeping your inboxes clean. Heuristic means - a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem. But to understand how a heuristic filter works, we would have to learn about the other spam filters.
Content filtering, which [...]

Yeah, be surprised, ‘coz there is lots more common between Spamming and cracking than public hatred.
We might begin with the Hat code, which is referenced from old westerns where the bad guy wears a black hat.
A spammers hat

Black Hat: One who favours Spam. Could be a site/ISP.
White Hat: Someone who emplys stringent anti-spam techniques to [...]

Spam comes in many flavors. I think that SPAM is like grapes. SPAM has all the attributes of grapes. SPAM can be sweet, it can be sour, it can be tangy and it can be a dud. Sample this:
Sweet: Give your mother/aunt/grandma a special gift. First 500 clickers get to eat at their favourite joint.
Sour: [...]

Or is it just the Nigerian/Norwegian spammers? I do not know. But I am sure of their desperate desire to coax people into believeing their tales of horror and anguish.
I mean, how brain-drained (I just invented the word) could someone be to not be able to regularly come up with new stories about their spouse/relatives [...]

We have all heard about using disposable email addresses and placing smart words into the email address so that humans can read it and the bots get foxed.
Here I discuss it again.
mailto is evil
You may wonder why I said this - the mailto tag makes it very easy for bots to track and harness your [...]