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Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like email addresses. (infosec.pub)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by henfredemars@infosec.pub to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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I wonder how many thousands of spam bots have tried to connect to the servers and send email using text ripped from these pages federated across numerous domains.

And they can’t just block one website. They’d have to individually block every node if they want to crawl the web for email addresses to steal. I hope it’s a real thorn in their side.

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[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Crap, that sounds amazing! Any good resources you'd suggest for getting started with doing that?

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 months ago

Btw, the last one can be done via plus-addresses on at least GMail and Outlook; rgb3x3+walmart@outlook.com will forward to rgb3x3@outlook.com, and you'll see that it was sent through rgb3x3+walmart@outlook.com at the top.

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