Brutkey

Peter N. M. Hansteen
@pitrh@mastodon.social

[Again for those on the other side of the pond] -

Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps rolled past the number of people in my home country. It's time for a retrospective.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

#greytrapping #spam #antispam #greylisting #blocklist #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #ssh #passwords #passwordguessing #pop3 #security #networking #cybercrime

tmaher
@tmaher@infosec.exchange

@pitrh@mastodon.social wow I haven’t thought about greylisting spam in years. Thank you for the retrospective, it’s interesting to see it’s still a useful technique.

I’m curious what the IPv6 lack of consensus was around.