Author: B.Trevithick (23 May 07 3:21pm)
For what it's worth, I keep all of my links to the honey pot hidden via CSS, and to keep the validators happy I simply include a middot for each one.
My links look list this:
<a class="hide" href="where_my_honey_pot_is">·</a>
And my CSS just looks like this:
.hide {
display: none;
}
I don't fly the banner of PH, but I do include a link to it in a page of about a hundred other off-site links.
I don't know if anyone is clear on exactly how these bots are coded, so it's a crap shoot trying to figure out whether/how to hide things. My CSS approach is just to hide them from humans, although that might not be a great idea either.
When Steve Gibson was under DDOS attack by a bunch of script kiddies using IRC controlled botnets, somebody kindly dropped a copy of one of the zombies into his anonymous Internet drop box, and from there he was able to figure out the rest himself. I wish we could get our hands on a few of the spam bots to see what makes them tick!
Great read for anyone who hasn't already read it:
http://www.grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
I heard it was the most popular page on the Internet when it was first published.
Bob
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