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Spam, Activism, N’okay

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Kelson
  • Project Honeypot: 1 Billion Spammers Served! #
  • Wow. Without “activist judges” to blame, anti-gay-marriage *ahem* activists in DC are complaining about activist…legislators. #
  • It’s almost 2010. Why do OK/Cancel boxes STILL pop up while I’m typing & accept my “input?” I’m not sure what I just confirmed. Or canceled. Or whatever it is that it thought I told it. #
  • Computer update: Disk check finished overnight, seems OK today. Ran a backup just in case, but got some work done on that project! #

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No comment?

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Kelson

Project Honeypot recently started tracking comment spammers as well as email harvesting bots. Oddly enough, even though they have data going back to March 22, and even though Bad Behavior and Spam Karma have blocked an incredible number of spam comments on this site (Bad Behavior has blocked 3807 connections in the past week alone)....none of the honeypots I manage have trapped a single comment spam.

And no, the honeypot on this site isn’t protected by those plugins.

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Honeypot Paydirt!

Posted on February 28, 2005 by Kelson

Whew! After 6 weeks, Project Honeypot has identified a spam harvester trolling one of the sites I signed up with them. Considering it only took 3 days for them to hit some of the local spamtraps I set up at the same time, I’m surprised. I’m especially surprised that it was found on the least trafficked site.

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