On 09/21/2018 02:42 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
I do agree. I had said before that this could possibly be an attempted attack on the network by trying to infect relay operators machines with spyware, etc.
Sure. For those, you just keep filing abuse reports. Just automate it,
so every message triggers a report. If enough list members do that, there'll be lots of abuse reports.
How would you suggest we do that? thank you.
First you get all of the spam from addresses. I did that by exporting from Thunderbird to text files, and then using grep to grab all of the "From:" lines. Then I massaged the data in gnumeric, to pull unique "foo@bar.baz". I have 43 so far, and 65% are Gmail.
In Thunderbird, one can create a filter on Inbox that selects messages by from address, forwards them somewhere, and then puts them wherever you like, or deletes them. So you configure a filter for each one, and forward messages to the appropriate abuse address.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 2:35 PM Mirimir mirimir@riseup.net wrote:
On 09/21/2018 01:24 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
➢ There are lots of technical folk on these tor lists. There ought to be at least a few who'd enjoy killing some spam servers.
What exactly do you mean by “killing them”? If you are referring to
forcibly taking the servers offline, that would most likely be illegal.
As Marv says, "I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad." So I don't care so much about "illegal". Indeed, there is effectively no law that protects us from jerks like this. Maybe they're just sex spammers, but you gotta treat them like malicious attackers, because they might be. That's especially so because they're targeting Tor Project lists. So it comes down to the right of self-defense.
Not to mention an amount of the spamming addresses are using Gmail and
Yahoo mail accounts, and we can’t “kill” those sources.
Sure. For those, you just keep filing abuse reports. Just automate it, so every message triggers a report. If enough list members do that, there'll be lots of abuse reports.
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