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Defeating Address Harvesting

  • How do spammers locate "victim" addresses?
  • Obvious sources: Newsgroup articles, mailing lists, Web pages
  • Not-so-obvious sources: fingerd, identd, "Rumplestiltskin" attacks, domain name registries
  • In some cases, address can be harvested before user has sent his or her first e-mail!