How about an email plugin that proxies every link given in an email to a third-party page thatâs able to pre-scan the original link in order to ensure that itâs not malicious.
ButâŚthen youâd have to have a proxy system to check the first proxy to ensure itâs being honest and properly scanning the pages.
The Internet=Worldâs Greatest Game of Whack-a-Mole
The article says:
This increasingly popular technique is known in the industry as âsnowshoeâ spam. (The name refers to the small footprints it leaves.)
Traditionally, âsnowshoe spammersâ are spammers who shift continuously from one IP address to another. The idea is that â just as a snowshoe spreads the wearerâs weight over the snow so that they donât sink in â using a range of IPs âspreadsâ the spammerâs profile over the whole IP range. Individual IP addresses used by the spammers are likely to get blacklisted but by the time that happens, theyâve moved to another.
The difference is that in the âtraditionalâ use of the term (which is several years old), a snowshoe spammer can send spam in very large volumes from one source before they abandon a contaminated IP or domain name and move on. This article, on the other hand, seems to be talking about very low-volume spam, which is at least loosely targeted. I think these are two separate tactics, and itâs misleading to refer to them both by the same name.
I thought the whole idea with snowshoes was to create a much LARGER footprint so that you can pretend to be Legolas. A smaller footprint would be something like, what, stilts? A pogo stick?
That was my thought as well, but I suppose the depth that you sink into the snow is the important parts as far as walking goes, so a snowshoe would have a much shallower footprint by that criteria.
Also, congratulations to Bloomberg for finding a name that makes me dislike spam more, âartisanal spamâ, nice.
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