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RE: Obfuscation fails.
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:16:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Obfuscation fails.
- References: <042401c67e71$0aa186c0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
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TITTTLing...
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 23 May 2006 14:44, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote:
>
> > In the last 8 hours I have received 4 spam e-mails on the forwarding
> > address I use exclusively for this list.
> > (Have never received any spam on it before.)
> >
> > This might suggest the level of obfuscation for e-mail addresses
> > displayed on this list needs to be upgraded.
>
> There isn't any obfuscation if someone forgets to PCYMTNQREAIYR.
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00258.html
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00525.html
>
> Nor is there any generic way for the mailing list to know if your
> mailer adds custom X- headers with your email address in plain:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/cgi-bin/get-raw-msg?listname=cygwin&date=2005-03&msgid=1110016059.JPMCYAFVMHSL%40spammotel.com
Moreover, look at the message id, which actually contains the email
address in the clear.
> (although you could argue that X-Sender is commonplace enough that it
> should be added to the list of mungeable headers).
Yep, good point.
> > My current Cygwin e-mail address will self destruct within 5 minutes
> > from sending this e-mail.
>
> Well, I wasn't going to Cc you anyway :)
Watch out for flying bits... :-)
Igor
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