On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Jonas Smedegaard - [email protected] wrote: > On 12-03-13 at 12:00pm, > [email protected] wrote: >> I have received a solicitation to help transfer a large sum of money >> to the U.S. from our troops in Iraq. I already understand this is a >> phishing SPAM message. The only reason I post this is the address >> used was only available in the archives of >> [email protected], because I use a whitelist >> relay for all my email which allows me to use a unique address for all >> my correspondence. >> >> Perhaps the list archive could have better obfuscation of the >> addresses than the form "user at domain.tld"? Surely that is just as >> easy to scan for as "[email protected]". I've seen other obfuscations >> such as "user at doma..." on other lists. Perhaps someone could >> implement such an obfuscation here? > > Please don't obfuscate - that hurts users but less so spammers: Schemes > easy for users to figure out are easy for spammers to figure out too.
If one is concerned about privacy, why would one want ANY reader of the archive to be able to deduce one's address? I believe a minimal hurdle to obtaining my address from my use of the list should be participation in the list. I do wish to communicate with those working on this project; I just don't see the need to communicate with lurkers or worse. > I let you be certain the leakage happened via this mailinglist. Thank you. > But why certain the leakage happened via the its web archive? I thought about this after I sent my posting. It IS possible that other sources could have been used. I apologize for my mistaken analysis. I am still improving my understanding of this technology. > Not some other archive somewhere? Some other archive would most likely be a copy of the archive maintained by the list server. Thus an obfuscation at the server will be an obfuscation of any copy. It is possible for a bot to subscribe, but that is a higher cost approach. > Not some virus infected mail client? Yes, this is possible. So, let this serve as a warning to everyone that they may have been compromised. > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
