[15808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic hosage (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Sun Mar 22 11:24:50 1998
From: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
To: pceasy@norfolk.infi.net (Dean Robb)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 10:09:20 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980321212502.00b4bcb8@norfolk.infi.net> from "Dean Robb" at Mar 21, 98 09:25:02 pm
Dean Robb writes:
> The misuse aspect has come about because spammers (primarily) have bots
> that will harvest all the addresses in WhoIs and send them their drivel.
Contact handles are predictable. All you need to do in a bot is try all
the permutations of 2 or 3 letters, with or without -ORG at the end, and
increment numbers until nothing is found. That will get you perhaps 99%
of the handles.
Handles should instead be generated in an unpredictable way, such as MD5.
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