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Dentaku (Thomas Renger)Nicole, Nicole, Nicole, Nicole …<a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/Mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastoadmin</a> <a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spam</a> <a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/Fediversechick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediversechick</a>

C.Something happens to me occasionally, and I don't know where to put it in the ridiculous - infuriating - preposterous feelingspace. It happened again today.Backstory: I'm an email geek, who has been running mail servers for three decades, and who has written a lot of mail-handling software. I've worked as a consultant on email systems for companies large and small.When you run your own mailservers, have deep experience with MTAs, and are a bit of a privacy nut, you might have a tendency to want to know exactly who does what with your email address when you give it to them. For most people, this desire is just a dream; it's not possible with their email system.Thanks to a technique semi-related to <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/VERP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VERP</a> - variable envelope return-path, a mailing list feature with the qmail MTA - it's possible for email geeks. Basically the idea is that you give a different email address to everyone you deal with, and keep track of who you gave it too. Then, when you receive email, you can tell from the address the email was delivered *to* - one of your many addresses - where they got your address from.Example:Say I own the `example.net` domain. I arrange for all email to that domain to come to me.I decide to order something online from <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CrappyTire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CrappyTire</a> (ask a Canadian). When the Crappy Tire website asks for my email address, I type in "crappytire@example.net".1/x<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FeelingSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FeelingSpace</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ColourSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ColourSpace</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#email</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tracking</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spam</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MTA</a>

Paul Chambers🚧We need an option in <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoAdmin</a> settings to check for open registration instances and automatically limit them. <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spam</a> Of course, the big dog instances like Mastodon.Social wouldn't like this.Has anyone made a script yet that canvases Fediverse instances, esp Mastodon, for open registrations so we either automatically moderate them or can create and import a blocklist with them limited? <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/Fediblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediblock</a>

AJ Sadauskas<a href="https://aus.social/@skribe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@skribe</a> Conversely, the cost of printing, distribution, and storage puts up a barrier to spamming people on other continents with mass quantities of low value slop. Just think through the logistics of a hostile Eurasian state sending a mass quantity of printed materials to Australia or North America.Or, for that matter, a hostile North American state sending a mass quantity of printed materials to Europe or Asia.You would either need:–a) At least one printing press on each continent; b) You could try shipping the magazines, but they'd be a month out of date when they arrive; or c) You could try flying them overseas, but that would be very expensive very quickly.That's before you worry about things like delivery drivers (or postage), and warehouses.These are less of an issue for books than they are for newspapers or magazines.And if a particular newspaper or magazine is known to be reliable, written by humans, researched offline, and the articles are not available online, then there's potentially value in people buying a physical copy.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LargeLanguageModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LargeLanguageModel</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LargeLanguageModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LargeLanguageModels</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spam</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meta</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gemini</a>

c't MagazinWeb-Tipps: Anfassen erlaubtInternet Artifacts zeigt Meilensteine wie Arpanet, Spam und lustige Videos. Nutzer können interaktiv und unterhaltsam die Geschichte des Internets erleben.<a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Web-Tipps-Anfassen-erlaubt-10321600.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/news/Web-Tipps-Anfassen-erlaubt-10321600.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon</a><a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Entertainment</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Geschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Geschichte</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Internet</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spam</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a>

Mike RiversdaleThe characters of life - a moment: <a href="https://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2025/03/want-slice-of-spam.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2025/03/want-slice-of-spam.html</a>(btw: follow <a href="https://sunny.garden/@georgepenney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@georgepenney</a> for the finest life vignettes)<a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/character" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#character</a> <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spam</a> <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a>

Petra van CronenburgI manually review accounts who want to follow me (too many bot and scam waves). I automatically reject empty accounts!If you don't want to be mistaken for a fake account, fill out your profile, post something that shows you as a human, only then follow people. How to: <a href="https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-customise-my-profile-how-do-i-upload-a-profile-banner-how-do-i-verify-my-account/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-customise-my-profile-how-do-i-upload-a-profile-banner-how-do-i-verify-my-account/</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/profile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#profile</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/follow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#follow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/following" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#following</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/accounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accounts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fakeAccounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fakeAccounts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spam</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HowTo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HowTo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/feditips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feditips</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://digipres.club/@vxo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vxo</a> <a href="https://noods.fun/@harmonycorrupted" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@harmonycorrupted</a> yeah.<code>mastodon.social</code> is the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GMail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GMail</a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/YahooMail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YahooMail</a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Outlook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Outlook</a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Hotmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hotmail</a> of the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>:<ul><li>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TooBigToBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TooBigToBlock</a>" in spite of being #1 source of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spam</a>, nonexistant <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/moderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#moderation</a> or consequences for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abuse</a>...</li></ul>

Erik van Straten<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@aral</a> : most Let's Encrypt (and other Domain Validated) certificates are issued to junk- or plain criminal websites.They're the ultimate manifestation of evil big tech.They were introduced to encrypt the "last mile" because Internet Service Providers were replacing ads in webpages and, in the other direction, inserting fake clicks.DV has destroyed the internet. People loose their ebank savings and companies get ransomwared; phishing is dead simple. EDIW/EUDIW will become an identity fraud disaster (because of AitM phishing atracks).Even the name "Let's Encrypt" is wrong for a CSP: nobody needs a certificate to encrypt a connection. The primary purpose of a certificate is AUTHENTICATION (of the owner of the private key, in this case the website).However, for human beings, just a domain name simply does not provide reliable identification information. It renders impersonation a peace of cake.Decent online authentication is HARD. Get used to it instead of denying it.REASONS/EXAMPLES🔹 Troy Hunt fell in the DV trap: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114222237036021070" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114222237036021070</a>🔹 Google (and Troy Hunt!) killed non-DV certs (for profit) because of the stripe.com PoC. Now Chrome does not give you any more info than what Google argumented: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114224682101772569" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114224682101772569</a>🔹 https:⧸⧸cancel-google.com/captcha was live yesterday: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114224264440704546" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114224264440704546</a>🔹 Stop phishing proposal: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/113079966331873386" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/113079966331873386</a>🔹 Lots of reasons why LE sucks: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/112914047006977222" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/112914047006977222</a> (corrected link 09:20 UTC)🔹 This website stopped registering junk .bond domain names, probably because there were too many every day (the last page I found): <a href="https://newly-registered-domains.abtdomain.com/2024-08-15-bond-newly-registered-domains-part-1/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newly-registered-domains.abtdomain.com/2024-08-15-bond-newly-registered-domains-part-1/</a>. However, this gang is still active, open the RELATIONS tab in <a href="https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/13.248.197.209/relations" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/13.248.197.209/relations</a>. You have to multiply the number of LE certs by approx. 5 because they also register subdomains and don't use wildcard certs. Source: <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/revolver-rabbit-gang-registers-500-000-domains-for-malware-campaigns/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/revolver-rabbit-gang-registers-500-000-domains-for-malware-campaigns/</a><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@EUCommission</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@letsencrypt</a> <a href="https://social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nlnet</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Authentication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authentication</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Impersonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Impersonation</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Spoofing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spoofing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Phishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Phishing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DV</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GoogleIsEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoogleIsEvil</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BigTechIsEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTechIsEvil</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Certificates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Certificates</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/httpsVShttp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#httpsVShttp</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AitM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AitM</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MitM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MitM</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FakeWebsites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FakeWebsites</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CloudflareIsEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CloudflareIsEvil</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bond</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dotBond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dotBond</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spam</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Infosec</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ransomware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ransomware</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Banks</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CloudflareIsEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CloudflareIsEvil</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FakeWebsites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FakeWebsites</a>

AuscandocSo that’s where all the <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NIH</a> money went 🤣 <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spam</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a>

Cadu Silva :verified:Mantenham suas instâncias na versão mais recente. As ondas de spam se aproveitam muitas vezes de servidores desatualizados.O Mastodon adotou medidas em atualizações recentes para tentar mitigar essas ondas.A ideia é evitar que instâncias fiquem com cadastros por muito tempo abertos sem ninguém para moderá-los.Recomenda-se sempre manter os cadastros no modo de aprovação manual.Mas servidores antigos, abandonados, mal moderados, se tornam vetor para ondas de spam.cc <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fediadminbr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fediadminbr</a> <a href="https://bolha.one/tags/FediAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediAdmin</a> <a href="https://bolha.one/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoAdmin</a> <a href="https://bolha.one/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spam</a>

Billy SmithI'm getting follow-requests from AI-spambots.Yes, i had to block a couple of NicoleFedichick instances, but some of them are more subtle than that.It's now a good idea to set your Follow-requests to verify-only, so you don't end up feeding all your conversations to spammers.<a href="https://social.coop/tags/aispam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aispam</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spam</a>

Jeri DanskyJust a reminder that if you're getting DMs from Nicole or you're getting new barely-dressed followers who want you to follow them elsewhere: Please report these so your moderators can take action and suspend their accounts. These aren't visible to us unless they get reported. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spam</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Nicole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nicole</a>

Paul Chambers🚧<a href="https://mstdn.social/@janisf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@janisf</a> You can set notifications preferences from the web. Open Notifications, then the sprocket in the upper right next to the word Notifications. <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spam</a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/FediverseChick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediverseChick</a> <a href="https://hellions.cloud/@dannotdaniel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dannotdaniel</a>

Paul Chambers🚧Looks like Nicole, <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/FediverseChick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediverseChick</a>, is now going with usernames beginning with "neckerchief" <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoAdmin</a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spam</a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/Fediblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediblock</a> neckerchief23@ploen.socialSo far, the dozen or so my instance has blocked all started with 'nicole....'

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