Fighting spam using tar pits

2007-09-01

Tobias Eggendorfer

Independent researcher , Germany

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Tobias Eggendorfer describes how both SMTP and HTTP tar pits offer interesting ways of helping to get rid of spam.

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Fighting malware and spam

Fighting spam using tar pits

Tobias Eggendorfer

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