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All bugs lead to Rome
- Animats 11y ago"We use a great service called Mailgun to send our emails. As part of this, they rewrite our URLs to enable click-tracking." It's fun to read about spammers suffering.
- mschuster91 11y agoIf you want to do any high-volume mail output and you're not already using Google Apps infrastructure, you must use Mailgun or another service provider to avoid blacklisting your domain...
- jasode 11y agoThe "breakthrough" boiled down to something we all do in desperation: Google it. At a loss for other ideas, I started going through all the Google results for “erzbir”. Imagine my surprise when, a few pages in, I came across the following page: http://easyciphers.com/remove http://easyciphers.com/remove As it turns out, “erzbir” is “remove” encrypted with a simple Caesar cipher. Every once in a while you get a happy ending instead of the dead end like the XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/
- jacquesm 11y agoMine usually point to a stackoverflow question that was closed with a 'not a suitable question for SO' message. I really hate those.
- 13of40 11y agoWait, you never heard of ROT13? Heck, Son, I remember when ROT13 was the DoD's standard for strong encryption.
- JoachimSchipper 11y agoBe nice - ROT13 isn't exactly rocket science, but everyone has to learn it somewhere. And lots of capable developers aren't steeped in online culture.
- kuschku 11y agoWhich is an issue in itself. The hacker culture has a lot of "traditional knowledge" about things to avoid, and for good reasons.
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- PeCaN 11y agoEven back then I'd always use at least double-ROT13, only one iteration was brute-forced on even consumer abacuses pretty easily.
- keithpeter 11y agoHow about 2k iterations where k is any integer > 0 just to be sure?
- mistercow 11y agoWhat a useless thing for a virus scanner to do. Why bother following a link, if you're not going to follow the link?
- ambrop7 11y agoI suppose it also immediately reveals the IP address of the receiver to the sender.
- praptak 11y agoRot13 to avoid unintentional side effects of URL activation? What could possibly go wrong apart from a) the mangled URL still having side-effects and b) only the non-mangled URL serving malware, thus totally defeating the purpose of this "safety check"?