Abuse statistics

[mplsfox02 at sneakemail.com]

Hi,

I extended my statistics a bit:

http://ob44yuhbyysk5xft.onion

Now you can also see, how many connections are used to search for  
profiles via an email-address. The detection is done by the following  
regular expression:
/GET .*se?a?rch.*=[^%& ]+%40[^%& ]+/
No data beside the host name is saved, especially not the email  
addresses.

It shows that at the moment between 4 and 20 % of the connections are  
used for these requests, mainly at flickr, what explains their high  
ranking in the general connections. It can be assumed that most of  
searches are done automatically by profilers, that scan "web 2.0"  
sites for existing profiles with their email-address-databases, in  
order to build up a relation database. (Examples: http://www.rapleaf.com/ 
, http://www.spock.com/, http://www.peekyou.com/) By using unencrypted  
connections over Tor they violate their privacy policies, I guess.

Also it shows how interesting it is for email-address harvesters to  
run an exit node on their own. Each 100'000 connections you will have  
collected at least 5'000 email addresses! So the profilers feed the  
spammers? :-)