[tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays

[Keifer Bly]

Just a heads up, this address is sending spam now.

zufoeowi90754 at gmail.com

From: Mirimir
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2018 4:24 PM
To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays

On 09/24/2018 06:49 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> On 24.09.18 02:12, Dave Warren wrote:
> 
>> I don't see anything obvious that addresses my approach (only the
>> approach of sending a message from a consistent address out slowly,
>> which has several obvious flaws).
> 
> Messages are already uniquely identifiable, and your approach is just a
> variation of the method Andreas described. While it bundles spamtraps,
> it is still just as easily avoided using trigger address sets in the
> manner I mentioned before.
> 
> -Ralph

Maybe I misunderstood the proposal. Or unconsciously embellished it.

I was thinking that there'd be a set of Tor Project honeypot accounts,
with the same apparent account (e.g., Jay Baker). But in fact, there
would be a distinctly identifiable "hidden key" for each subscriber of
each list. Periodically, the set of honeypot accounts would send
innocuous messages to the Tor lists.

So let's say that Jay Baker instance with hidden key "Aj0qAU3Dc7PJzK"
had sent a list message to just one subscriber. And then it received sex
spam. That would arguably implicate that subscriber in the spamming
operation. No? And then that subscriber would be unsubscribed.

Of course, any sane spammer would use throwaway accounts. And they'd
just replace them as needed. However, once the system were operating,
new subscriptions could be correlated with subscription removals.
Perhaps subscription removals could be done in batches, to make that
more obvious.

But of course, that would be just too creepy.
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