Monday, December 26, 2005

Project Honey Pot: Distributed Spam Harvester Tracking Network...

"Project Honey Pot is a distributed system of decoy email addresses website administrators can include on their sites in order to gather information about the robots and spiders spammers use. We collate data on how addresses are harvested, distributed, and eventually spammed in order to understand the entire spam cycle."

Great idea, the word 'honeypot' is used in tech lingo to describe a phony server or location on the web (pot), set up in such a way as to attract (honey) a specific type of internet traffic.

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