Thread: Re: Mailing list hacked by spammer?

Re: Mailing list hacked by spammer?

From
Glyn Astill
Date:
Most likely just a forged header or something, hardly hacked though is it.  I think you need to do some training:
http://www2.b3ta.com/bigquiz/hacker-or-spacker/



----- Original Message ----
> From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2008 4:02:37 PM
> Subject: [PERFORM] Mailing list hacked by spammer?
>
> I've never gotten a single spam from the Postgres mailing list ... until today.
> A Chinese company selling consumer products is using this list.  I have my
> filters set to automatically trust this list because it has been so reliable
> until now.  It would be really, really unfortunate if this list fell to the
> spammers.
>
> Craig
>
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Re: Mailing list hacked by spammer?

From
Craig James
Date:
Glyn Astill wrote:
> Most likely just a forged header or something, hardly hacked
> though is it.

Yes, hack is the correct term.  The bad guys have hacked into the major email systems, including gmail, which was the
originof this spam: 

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/gmail_captcha_crack/

>  I think you need to do some training:
> http://www2.b3ta.com/bigquiz/hacker-or-spacker/

Sending a link to a web site that plays loud rap music is not a friendly way to make your point.

Craig

>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
>> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
>> Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2008 4:02:37 PM
>> Subject: [PERFORM] Mailing list hacked by spammer?
>>
>> I've never gotten a single spam from the Postgres mailing list ... until today.
>> A Chinese company selling consumer products is using this list.  I have my
>> filters set to automatically trust this list because it has been so reliable
>> until now.  It would be really, really unfortunate if this list fell to the
>> spammers.
>>
>> Craig
>>
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Re: Mailing list hacked by spammer?

From
Andrew Sullivan
Date:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:40:33AM -0700, Craig James wrote:

> Yes, hack is the correct term.  The bad guys have hacked into the major email systems, including gmail, which was the
originof this spam: 
>
>  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/gmail_captcha_crack/

The simple fact is that, as long as we don't reject completely all
mail from any unsubscribed user, some spam will occasionally get
through.  It's humans who have to do the moderation, and sometimes we
hit the wrong button.  Sorry.

(Moreover, the trick of foiling captchas and using compromised
machines all over the Internet to send spam is hardly "hacking the
list".)

A

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Re: Mailing list hacked by spammer?

From
Glyn Astill
Date:
> Glyn Astill wrote:

> > Most likely just a forged header or something, hardly hacked
> > though is it.
>
> Yes, hack is the correct term.  The bad guys have hacked into the major email
> systems, including gmail, which was the origin of this spam:
>
>   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/gmail_captcha_crack/
>
> >  I think you need to do some training:
> > http://www2.b3ta.com/bigquiz/hacker-or-spacker/
>
> Sending a link to a web site that plays loud rap music is not a friendly way to
> make your point.
>
> Craig
>

Whatever. I see you clicked on the link then, even though it came from a 'hacked' mailing list :-)

weren't you the chap that couldn't figure out how to use the slony tools and threw a wobbler at the developers ...



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