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This should be criminal because you can subscribe a mailbox without confirmation. I should spam my local legislator.
"MailBait does not condone using other people's email address with this service. Please treat other people's email with respect and don't sign them up for spam regardless of how much you think it would be funny." nod, nod, wink, wink? If not, then why would you put something like this up without doing even a bog-standard email confirmation on the entered email address? Can't tell if trolling or epically naive.
Please don't get me wrong, I didn't write this, and don't endorse it, but I find it interesting. My suspicion echos yours, particularity based on the name (A play on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbait perhaps?) That said, I think it's an interesting project, and could legitimately be quite useful in the right circumstances. I'm a SysAdmin- I've had to train and test SPAM filters quite a few times in setting up new…
It looks like the system sends packets to the client computer to process the website posts (signing up for email). The end user is really the person sending the sign ups. A little side story: I worked with a person that must have made someone really mad. His corporate email account got signed up for some really bad ongoing email and he had to put some really strong filters in place to screen his incoming. It got to t…
"It looks like the system sends packets to the client computer to process the website posts (signing up for email). The end user is really the person sending the sign ups."
You understand tcp right?
This should be criminal because you can subscribe a mailbox without confirmation. I should spam my local legislator.
Now that I think about it, all public email addresses are susceptible to the exact same problems of physical mailing addresses. Anyone can send anyone anything. Unfortunately it's as if online life has the same pitfalls of real life.
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Now that I think about it, all public email addresses are susceptible to the exact same problems of physical mailing addresses. Anyone can send anyone anything. Unfortunately it's as if online life has the same pitfalls of real life.
Nope. Its possible to clog a e-mail box for free. It would cost lots of money to do the same kind of attack on a physical box. Lastly, the mailman would stop it. Nobody gonna stop me from spasming Daniel K. Pelosi.
Find a couple of professional magazines. Find the "response card" in that magazine. Fill it with victim's name and real world mail address. Tick 10 boxes. Repeat this a few times. (Wear gloves when doing this and carefully destroy the magazines afterwards.) This is free for the person doing it. It's low cost for each company involved.
> the mailman would stop it.
Why would a postal worker not deliver post with a valid name and address?
It looks like the system sends packets to the client computer to process the website posts (signing up for email). The end user is really the person sending the sign ups. A little side story: I worked with a person that must have made someone really mad. His corporate email account got signed up for some really bad ongoing email and he had to put some really strong filters in place to screen his incoming. It got to t…
Are you trolling? "It looks like the system sends packets to the client computer to process the website posts (signing up for email). The end user is really the person sending the sign ups." You understand tcp right?
I'd really like their list of forms so I can just write a ruby/python script to submit these in parallel via Net::HTTP or whatever. IMO that'd be way faster.
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Nope. Its possible to clog a e-mail box for free. It would cost lots of money to do the same kind of attack on a physical box. Lastly, the mailman would stop it. Nobody gonna stop me from spasming Daniel K. Pelosi.
> It would cost lots of money to do the same kind of attack on a physical box. Find a couple of professional magazines. Find the "response card" in that magazine. Fill it with victim's name and real world mail address. Tick 10 boxes. Repeat this a few times. (Wear gloves when doing this and carefully destroy the magazines afterwards.) This is free for the person doing it. It's low cost for each company involved. > th…