Author: M.Prince (19 Jan 05 2:10am)
Do you want the RSS feed to publish the list of the Top 25 Harvesters on another site? Or do you want it in order to create a "banned list" tool?
We hadn't thought of people wanting to do the former. If there's interest, we can definitely look into creating something like that.
In terms of the later, we're working on it. We will probably not use RSS exactly to distribute the list, but the idea is to create a list of banned IPs that website admins can check against when a visitor comes to their sites. If the visitor is a known harvester then the admin could choose to block them, require them to go through a gateway page (e.g., a CAPTCHA or maybe even just a Javascript redirect spiders would be unlikely to parse), or maybe automatically strip any email addresses or other functions (e.g., POST) from the pages served through the web server.
If we can ensure it doesn't consume too many resources (i.e., get too expensive), our desire it to make such a tool available for free to anyone who installs a honey pot on their site, donates some MX records, refers a bunch of users to us, or is otherwise an active member of the Project Honey Pot community.
Our working name is the http:BL. We've begun the coding of an Apache module. We'd like to make one for IIS and some other webserver platforms as well. If anyone has any interest in helping with this part of the Project (especially if you have expertise in Apache modules or IIS plugins) please contact us and we'll get you involved!!
I know that's more of an answer than you were probably looking for, but if this is why you're looking for an RSS feed then help is on the way. If you (or anyone else) are looking for it to publish data on your server then I'll look into if we can set something up.
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