When URLs on your website become invalid, it’s good practice to deprecate rather than remove them, such as to give time to your visitors and the search engines to adapt to the new links. Personally, I have three versions of my website, (Version 1, Version 2, you’re looking at Version 3 now) and I’ve been [...]
In May 2003, a friend and I decided to pull a prank on a number of his pen pals, and I designed and implemented a small phishing experiment. The intent was to retrieve as many e-mail passwords as possible from his group of e-friends. Before implementing the program, I had him promise he would disclose [...]
When an e-mail message hits a spam filter, it may be deemed spam, or the message may pass checks and reach your inbox. If the spam filter finds a message it considers spam, chances are that your mail server will bounce the message back to the spammer. If bouncing is immediate, then a spammer may [...]
Well, I hope you realize there is no end-all solution to spam. Spammers are always going to be there, and no matter what defense mechanisms we devise against them, they are going to figure out a way to bypass them. In a sense, the spam and anti-spam phenomenons are part of an evolutionary process. Each [...]