I've been constructing two honeypot sites for tracking spammers and their habits, and more importantly, whether some of the anti-spam defences I have in mind are likely to work against the current slew of bots.
Now, I'm not going to give out the details behind the logging, suffice to say they're likely to be fairly expensive on the server as I'm recording a lot of information and I'll be setting up various specialist processes for getting it back to my PC in a meaningful fashion so that I can make sense of it.
The reason I'm posting is because shortly I'm going to need some help. I'm not asking anyone to host these in any form, because of the above, but I am going to need links to the sites when they're ready, which means I'm going to be requesting people put one or other of the links in their signatures or indeed anywhere else, in a cloaked fashion, on whatever sites they're able to.
If it's going in bbcode, it should be in the form of:
Code: [Select]
That's right, no text in there. Regular users won't see it, search engines will be advised on landing that they're not supposed to be there.
Better still, if it's your own site, embedding this in the template at the bottom would be even better.
Code: [Select]
I'll publish links when I'm finished with the code, and whatever you do, please do not directly visit them. Since every request you make will also be logged, it's just fluff in the data which will make it harder to pinpoint genuine users. (I mean, should genuine users find their way there for any reason, there's not a lot I can do about that, just hopefully it won't contaminate the data set too much)
As for the reason behind two honey pots, one's SMF 1.1.x, the other 2.0. I don't want to use Wedge because 1) I don't want to give them a heads-up as to the things in Wedge, 2) I don't want to have to strip out the layers of defences and 3) it's actually easier since I don't have to deploy anything that expects me to keep it up to date as much ;)
I'm hoping you guys will be able to help me get some backlinks, because this is the best way for me to track spam bots.
Now, I'm not going to give out the details behind the logging, suffice to say they're likely to be fairly expensive on the server as I'm recording a lot of information and I'll be setting up various specialist processes for getting it back to my PC in a meaningful fashion so that I can make sense of it.
The reason I'm posting is because shortly I'm going to need some help. I'm not asking anyone to host these in any form, because of the above, but I am going to need links to the sites when they're ready, which means I'm going to be requesting people put one or other of the links in their signatures or indeed anywhere else, in a cloaked fashion, on whatever sites they're able to.
If it's going in bbcode, it should be in the form of:
[url=http://one-of-the-sites/][/url]That's right, no text in there. Regular users won't see it, search engines will be advised on landing that they're not supposed to be there.
Better still, if it's your own site, embedding this in the template at the bottom would be even better.
<a href="http://one-of-the-sites/" rel="nofollow"></a>I'll publish links when I'm finished with the code, and whatever you do, please do not directly visit them. Since every request you make will also be logged, it's just fluff in the data which will make it harder to pinpoint genuine users. (I mean, should genuine users find their way there for any reason, there's not a lot I can do about that, just hopefully it won't contaminate the data set too much)
As for the reason behind two honey pots, one's SMF 1.1.x, the other 2.0. I don't want to use Wedge because 1) I don't want to give them a heads-up as to the things in Wedge, 2) I don't want to have to strip out the layers of defences and 3) it's actually easier since I don't have to deploy anything that expects me to keep it up to date as much ;)
I'm hoping you guys will be able to help me get some backlinks, because this is the best way for me to track spam bots.
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