GSI 2015-2016: announcement of a six-month student project
Study of obfuscation methods for email addresses and of the behavior of harvesting bots
- design of an harvesting bot to study all the methods used to obfuscate email addresses
- design of an honeypot (web pages containing addresses obfuscated with different methods) to study the behavior of harvesting bots
- analysis of the results
See the post Anti-spam measure: Against bots harvesting email addresses for an introduction.
Collaborations will be welcome.