From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 16:25:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9335106566C for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:25:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F678FC13 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaeo4 with SMTP id o4so5663838iae.13 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jrisom@gmail.com designates 10.50.236.5 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.50.236.5; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jrisom@gmail.com designates 10.50.236.5 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jrisom@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=jrisom@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.50.236.5]) by 10.50.236.5 with SMTP id uq5mr3151620igc.13.1330187147255 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:25:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SwKkKLB0K+PPyNdaXNnx0Rz4q0cPhH4LLz9yG0w6+UA=; b=iE1Zt53fpa/zi31gSwOXpu+4PXCdXsQWWqVjdP8AVhz90k2suMI/Xl0UioHOm82Yn6 EQWoD1YsEgVGn0JDfjpZiEBGinMGPT1hkjFkh9TQiauIMBdCkJXsjq2HEARpXOyvUSmc UXU4jvyWNJIlXBgZrFpAqPSoQN2kznAjx/EbY= Received: by 10.50.236.5 with SMTP id uq5mr2570050igc.13.1330187147217; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (c-98-212-197-29.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k3sm5080923igq.1.2012.02.25.08.25.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:25:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F490B81.3050106@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:25:37 -0600 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F47620D.24859.53F9A2B@dave.g8kbv.demon.co.uk> <868vjs8nto.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4F478D8B.31307.5E97C34@dave.g8kbv.demon.co.uk> <4F486340.7040907@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:25:47 -0000 On 2/25/2012 7:11 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: >> An email address can be hidden from bots without violating section 508, for >> instance: >> >> feenberg is at nber dot org >> >> or some variant won't be picked up by a robot. > > Most bots use some rather sophisticated regexp pattern > matching nowadays, including some primitive JavaScript > parsing to defeat the most popular JS-based obfuscations. > This one is very, very obvious and among the easiest ones > (including the "is" variation). You couldn't hide from them > this way. > > -cpghost. > What happens if the person going to the website doesn't speak any english and uses a translating service? The username or domain name could be mangled to something different.