Apache: Not content with distributing GPL’d software, Microsoft are now taking another step into the open-source world by shipping Apache-licensed code.
Not quite as big a deal as the GPL — but still, another interesting milestone.
Tags: apache, apache-licensed, code, content, deal, gpl, microsoft, milestone, software, step, world
Mail: Google announces new mail service. This is not an April Fool’s Day joke — just terrible timing. ;) It’s for real.
My thoughts:
Tags: april, content, day, fool, google, information, joke, mail, service, timing
Censorship: This is pretty funny — a friend writes that SonicWall’s ‘Content Filter’ has judged my home page and FOUND IT WANTING:
The URL http://jmason.org/ is currently rated as: category 4 - Pornography
w00t! It’s true, I have some pretty hot pics up there — the accuracy of their content filtering product amazes me!
Tags: category, censorship, content, filter, found, friend, home, page, sonicwall, url, wanting
Humour: xscreensaver, the default (and greatest) screensaver on most free UNIX distros, may contain R-rated content, as this mail to the Fedora discussion list notes.
Much to my surprise, I stumbled across it drawing an ‘erect penis’ when I returned from lunch today. So I did some investigating:
$ strings /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/glsnake | grep penis erect penis flaccid penis
Tags: content, default, discussion, humour, list, lunch, mail, screensaver, surprise, unix, xscreensaver
Tech: So, I just looked at NTK; it has a brief bit about Bram Cohen ‘having solved content distribution, (announcing) he was now tackling other simple problems: reputation systems, version control and perhaps after lunch the NP-complete set.’
Hmm, interesting! Let’s take a look at his diary — and what do I find but a whole load of entries on using trust metrics against spam. Bugger. Looks like I have my weekend reading cut out for me.
Also notable: Advogato has added native RSS support, which makes this pretty pointless; and they’ve also added an XML-RPC interface. Expect to see taint.org entries getting copied up there soon, as a result. ;)
Tags: bit, content, control, distribution, hmm, lunch, np-complete, ntk, reputation, tech, version
So a few months ago, I setup a cookie-producing mailto honeypot page at foojlist.php.
Well, I just got the first bite — and it’s a live one. It’s our old
friends at artprice.com. They’re a French spamhaus, operating from
Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d’Or, France, and reports claim that it’s all the
work of one guy — Thierry Ehrmann.
There’s lots of reports in USENET, and here’s their SBL listing, noting ‘extremely intense french spam source.’
This posting to NANAE notes that Colt France are not responding to complaints about them, either — but notes that ‘in France collecting e-mail addresses with the intention to send commercial mails without permission of the holders can be punished by law (article 226-18 of the Code Pe’nal - up to 5 years of prison or 300.000 euro)’. Interesting!
Full details of the spam, and the access_log entries from their web-scraper’s accesses, are attached.
Here’s the spam:
Received: from mail1.artmarket.com (mail1.artmarket.com [194.242.43.183]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) wixh ESMTP id h8SLJZV12710 for < ( email addr deleted ) @fooj.jmason.org>; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:19:35 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:19:35 +0100 Message-Id: (spam-protected) From: A R T (spam-protected) To: < ( email addr deleted ) @fooj.jmason.org> Subject: [adv] 1700 - 2003 Story of the Art Market MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>Artists search engine by Artprice TM - copyright Artprice.com</TITLE> <META http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”> <META name=”UNSUB” content=”<!–26398522_1–>”> <META name=”ROBOTS” content=”NOINDEX”> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor=”#FFFFFF” text=”#000000”> <TABLE cellspacing=”0” cellpadding=”0” align=”center” border=”0”> <TR> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/affil.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/search.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/fs.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ind.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://www.artistbiography.com/”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/bio.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/sig.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://web.artprice.com”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/Home.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/G.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ps.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/C.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://web.artprice.com”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/Home.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/I.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/sig.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/fs.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/C.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/I.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>A</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>R</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/HelpBlack.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/search.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/AMI/AMInsight.gif”></TD> </TR> <TR>” <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Shop.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://web.artprice.com/corporate/EN/Visite/pages/nb.htm”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/HelpBlack.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>T</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/today.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/E.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/F.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>P</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/search.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/C.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ind.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Shop.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/F.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/G.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ind.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Home.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/today.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/D.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/F.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/sig.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/A.gif”></TD> </TR> <TR>” <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/B.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/D.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/G.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/H.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/I.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/C.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>R</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/I.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Account.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/C.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ind.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>I</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/contact.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://web.artprice.com/corporate/EN/Visite/pages/3818.htm”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/HelpBlack.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/I.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/today.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>C</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/L.gif”></TD> </TR> <TR>” <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/D.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>E</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>C</B></TD> <TD align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>O</B></TD> <TD align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B>M</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Shop.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ind.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/G.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Home.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/search.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/sig.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Home.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/fs.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/contact.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/I.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/contact.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ps.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/H.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Account.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/search.gif”></TD> </TR> <TR>” <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/B.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/C.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/bio.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Shop.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Account.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/today.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/affil.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Account.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://www.artprice.net”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/B.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/L.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/F.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/bio.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Shop.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/B.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><A href=””http://www.art-online.com”> </A></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/C.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Home.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ps.gif”></TD> </TR> <TR>” <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/F.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/fs.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://www.americanartists.com/”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/bio.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD align=”center” bgcolor=”#000000”><B><FONT color=”#FF0000”>A</FONT></B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/B.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Home.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://web.artprice.com/corporate/EN/Visite/pages/arch02.htm”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/HelpBlack.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Shop.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/affil.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B><FONT color=”#FF0000”>R</FONT></B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/sig.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Account.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/I.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B><FONT color=”#FF0000”>T</FONT></B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/C.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/affil.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://web.artprice.com/corporate/EN/Visite/pages/3834.htm”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/HelpBlack.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/H.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Shop.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/search.gif”></TD> </TR> <TR>” <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/bio.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ps.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FF0000”><B><FONT color=”#000000”>M</FONT></B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/C.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/fs.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ps.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ps.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B>A</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ps.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B>R</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/B.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/F.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B>K</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ps.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://www.artprice.de”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/Home.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Shop.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B>E</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/B.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ind.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ps.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B>T</B></TD> <TD><A href=””http://web.artprice.com/corporate/EN/Visite/pages/jb02.htm”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/HelpBlack.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/contact.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/G.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ind.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/contact.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ind.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/map.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/affil.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B>C</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/D.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/sig.gif”></TD> <TD><A” href=””http://www.13thcenturyart.com/”><IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/HelpBlack.gif’” border=”0”></A></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Home.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/E.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/affil.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B>O</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Account.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/D.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/J.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/ind.gif”></TD> <TD” align=”center”><B>M</B></TD> <TD><IMG src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/Mediums/I.gif”></TD> <TD><IMG” src=””http://web.artprice.com/img/bio.gif”></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE” border=”0” bgcolor=”#FFFFFF” align=”center”><TR> <FORM method=get action=”http://web.artprice.com/en/artistsearch.aspx”><TD> <A href=””http://web.artprice.com”> <IMG” src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/Img/B/artprice_140.gif’” align=”absmiddle” border=”0” alt=”artprice”></A> <INPUT type=text name=searcharti size=39> <INPUT type=submit value=”OK” style=”CURSOR: hand”> <INPUT type=hidden name=l value=en> </TD> </FORM> </TR></TABLE> <CENTER> <FONT size=”1” face=”Arial”> THE WORLD LEADER IN ART MARKET INFORMATION - WELT-LEADER IN KUNSTMARKT-INFOS <BR>LEADER MONDIAL DE L’INFORMATION SUR LE MARCHE DE L’ART</FONT> </CENTER> <BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE cellspacing=”3” background=”http://web.artprice.com/Img/B/pixBl.gif”> <TR> <TD> <FONT face=”Arial” size=”1”> <b>To remove</b> your email: (spam-protected) please click below:<br><a href=”‘http://list.artaddiction.com/?m=(email_address_hidden)%40fooj.jmason.org’> (spam-protected) </a><br> In” case the above link does not work you can go to<br> http://list.artaddiction.com/<br> or reply to this message as it is.<br> Please allow us 72 H for your e-mail to be removed.<br>Thank you for your co-operation. </FONT></TD> <TD><FONT face=”Arial” size=”1”> <b>Pour désinscrire</b> votre email : (spam-protected) cliquez ci-dessous :<br><a (spam-protected) Si le lien ci-dessus ne fonctionne pas, vous pouvez aller sur :<br> http://list.artaddiction.com/ <br>ou répondez svp à ce message sans en modifier le contenu.<br> Votre désinscription sera effective dans les 72 H.<br>Merci de votre coopération. </FONT></TD> </TR><TR><TD colspan=”2”><FONT size=”1” face=”Arial”>En conformité avec la loi 78-17 du 6/1/78 (CNIL), vous pouvez demander à ne plus figurer sur notre fichier de routage.<BR> <IMG src=”‘http://web.artprice.com/img/LogoArtp_90.jpg’” border=”0” align=”absmiddle”>IX :28<BR> </FONT><FONT face=”Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif” size=”1”>Artprice.com - Domaine de la Source BP 69 - F-69270 St Romain au Mont D’or - RCS : 411 309 198</FONT></TD> </TR></TABLE></BODY></HTML>
And, after decoding the address it was sent to, here’s the access_log entries the address was scraped with:
194.242.43.13 - - [26/Sep/2003:21:09:34 +0100] ”GET /foojlist.php HTTP/1.0” 200 4066 ”-” ”Art-Online.com 0.9(Beta)”
That’s one line from their scraping run, during which they scraped every single page on spamassassin.taint.org, including tar and zip archives, CGI scripts, everything — making 534 requests between 21:07:31 and 21:16:49.
Tags: artprice, com, content, html, img, mail, org, spam, src, text
ICAP-server, an (imaginatively-named) daemon which implements ICAP. This seems to be a transcoding proxy server; in other words, it will convert HTML content on the fly, while you browse.
ICAP itself seems to be a protocol for rewriting HTTP responses; in other words, it allows a proxy server to include a small snippet of ICAP client code, and call out to an ICAP server to do the rewriting. Nifty.
Sounds like this could be very handy for low-bandwidth situations; use ICAP to “downshift” web pages into low-bandwidth versions. For example, banner ads can be trimmed out, heavy images converted to small, low-quality JPEGs, etc. One to watch (or help out with).
Ericsson used to have a commercial product which did something similar, but I can’t find it now…
Tags: content, daemon, fly, html, http, icap, icap-server, protocol, proxy, server
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