Feb09
I got in trouble at the blogger gathering at RSA…
on February 9th, 2007 at 10:57 pmPosted In: Security
…because I didn’t have an email address on my blog. Well, I finally posted it. It’s on my “About” page. So there.
While you’re there, you can gaze on my handsome face as well.
Vet
what would be far better would be to have both options in play…
prevent as much from getting sent in the first place as you can, and then clean up the rest… neither prevention nor filtering are perfect but they do complement each other…
While there is merit to the idea of minimizing your exposure to spam spiders, I must comment that it would be far better to have a robust and filtered email system so that is not such a worry. Frankly I was in the same boat of hating to post an address, but now that I’ve been running a pretty hearty email filter for the last couple years I just don’t sweat it anymore. Frankly any junk that gets generated is just fodder for bayesian learning.
that’s just about the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever heard of…
‘security’ bloggers should be aware of web crawling spiders that hunt for email addresses in all the standard obfuscated forms… you shouldn’t have to expose yourself to spam/phish/mass mailers/etc that way, that’s what web contact forms are for…
by the way, when reading your feed in google reader, your email address appears in the feed in a non-obfuscated form… it’s appeared there for some time… it appears right under the post title:
“from An Information Security Place by {address removed by me} (Michael R. Farnum)”