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Email Obfuscation Broken

Started by Henrik · 10 months ago

About two weeks ago I tried a really simple way of obfuscating email. To me as a programmer it seemed a little bit naive because this scheme can be easily decoded. But Gmail does such a nice job of getting rid of spam these days anyway, I felt like I didn’t have much to lose. [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • tekkie

    9 months ago

    Image would also be reachable for OCR bots like anything else visible on the screen so in that way you won't be protected. Yet the regular HTML-scanning bots would be troubled. Even so, that would equal to using a JavaScript based encoding as a bot scanning the code, wouldn't render it. JavaScript is surely more convenient choice in the circumstances.

    There's Mac OS X Dashboard widget called obfuscatr that uses this kind of logic. See the details at flash tekkie.

    obfuscatr was also featured in MacWorld Italy of March 2008.
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