[sdiy] BACK ONLINE - FUTURE

[Nathan Trites]

For those who may not be aware - every post on this list is publicly
archived, including plaintext names and email addresses, at
http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/pipermail/synth-diy/

A shady bot will ignore robots.txt and snatch all that info up pretty
easily. It's probably already happened multiple times.

Anyone that's subscribed to the list is also a potential source for every
address to get snatched by a hacker/malware/whatever, be it from a
yahoo/gmail address book or off outlook on their office computer.

As for how "gordonjcp" would show up in a dictionary attack, a generator
would probably come up with that in a few seconds, after a few thousand
guesses. It emails gordon@, then gordon1@, etc until it arrives at
gordonjcp. Spray and pray style, just look at the CC's on spam you get.

Personally I'd like to stick to something simple like the existing mailman
list. Where it's hosted isn't a major issue.

Best,

Nathan

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr> wrote:

> On 2016-08-29 23:57 +0100, Gordonjcp wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 05:30:46PM -0700, rsdio at audiobanshee.com wrote:
> > >
> > > I also don't trust that Yahoo won't be hacked for the
> > > purposes of harvesting their vast lists of email addresses.
> >
> > Nobody gives a shit about "lists of email addresses", nor have
> > they for a decade or so.
>
> [/citation needed/]
>
> > Why bother when you can just throw dictionaries at the
> > problem?
>
> I'm curious to learn in what dictionary you'd find an entry like
> "gordonjcp".
>
> Unless you're using that word in the loose sense of "list of
> words" in which case your "dictionary" most probably IS a list
> of e-mail addresses !
>
> --
> André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
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