Dang. I stopped getting them for a while due to the SPAM filter I configured in Gmail, however they are now coming through again. These spammers are trying to be smart by sending these spam messages from different domains; they are now coming from scarlettsofia710182@it.argmx.com
Anyone else getting these?
Thanks.
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:38 PM Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 06:21:16PM -0700, Keifer Bly wrote:
However, is there a way we can ban email addresses from the relay
operators list? It seems like removing the email addresses that have been sending these from the list might be a good idea, if that is possible.
Yes, it is easy to unsubscribe people, and to prevent them from subscribing.
But, which addresses shall we unsubscribe? The spammer addresses are not subscribed (I checked). They're likely subscribed as something else, and then sending spam in response to the mails they get.
Maybe there is a mailman module that lets you send a different watermarked mail to each subscriber, or to send mails out with different timing patterns to do a binary search over the list, in order to discover which addresses are triggering the spam? But I don't know of an easy way to do it.
Also, I hear from at least one person that some tor-dev subscribers are getting spams too. :(
As for motivation, my general assumption is not that it's a targeted attack because we are Tor (or even that they particularly know or care what Tor is), but rather that the Internet has been turning into a giant mass of spam, and this event is just another step in that direction. Consider it a variant of the "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by..." sayings.
Sorry for the troubles, --Roger
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