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On the increasing number of accounts, it could as well be due to a rise in spam that we have seen on XMPP.
by mickael 9y ago
On the increasing number of accounts, it could as well be due to a rise in spam that we have seen on XMPP.
- upofadown 9y agoThat's interesting. How do you do spam on XMPP?
- ge0rg 9y agoYou register with public jabber servers and send thousands of messages to crawled and constructed destination addresses: https://yaxim.org/blog/2017/12/22/spam-reduction-on-yax-dot-im/ https://yaxim.org/blog/2017/12/22/spam-reduction-on-yax-dot-... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xsender-the-source-of-all-the-recent-xmpp-spam/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xsender-the-s... https://github.com/ge0rg/jabber-spam-fighting-manifesto https://github.com/ge0rg/jabber-spam-fighting-manifesto
- upofadown 9y agoOK, thanks. I hadn't thought such a thing would be worth the bother, but I guess spam will find a way. I guess the eventual problem here is that everyone affected will turn off reception of messages from strangers. That would make XMPP somewhat less useful as a general method of getting in touch with someone.