Pretty cool idea. Was hoping it would instead spit out an obfuscated or dummy email address I could use on forms and signups which would proxy (perhaps for a limited time only) to my real email address.
Cool, the angle I'm planning to go for is the one Nikolas0 mentioned - an API and plugins so that it can be integrated into things like blogs and forums easily.
Before anyone goes down the "omg scr.im is so easy to brute force" route: yes -- by design.
I wanted a very simple tool to easily share email addresses that would defeat dumb mail harvesters, not a cyber bunker with undecypherable recaptcha crap that would annoy the hell out of users. Plus, yes, ladybug :)
with a more complicated process. I've never found a "munged" email address hard to read. Also, how do they have to prove they're human? That would be good to see on the splash page.
Are spam filters really that bad? I've had my email address in plain sight for well over a decade - no munging or similar tricks, even using a mailto url - and my domain is a catchall. Spamassassin plus RBL works just fine for me.
My personal gmail is around 8 years old IIRC and similarly I really don't see any spam or false positives there either.
What are the people who are so concerned about this problem doing that results in them getting spam that isn't caught by filtering systems?
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And your email isn't stored but rather encrypted and the ciphertext passed via the url.
k is your id and c is the ciphertext the key is stored on their server.
I wanted a very simple tool to easily share email addresses that would defeat dumb mail harvesters, not a cyber bunker with undecypherable recaptcha crap that would annoy the hell out of users. Plus, yes, ladybug :)
with a more complicated process. I've never found a "munged" email address hard to read. Also, how do they have to prove they're human? That would be good to see on the splash page.
My personal gmail is around 8 years old IIRC and similarly I really don't see any spam or false positives there either.
What are the people who are so concerned about this problem doing that results in them getting spam that isn't caught by filtering systems?