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  • Aaron Parecki
    Dear @Eventbrite, I have an account, so please make sure it is not possible for other people to sign me up for events with only my email address. I've been added to dozens of events over the last two weeks and it's an interesting new vector for spam. @EventbriteHelp
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F
    5 likes 1 repost
    Tue, Jan 18, 2022 9:08am -08:00 #spam
  • Aaron Parecki
    I managed to keep one of the sales callers on the phone long enough to ask where they got my info. Turns out they use @zoominfo which thankfully has an "opt out" process. https://www.zoominfo.com/update/profile Hopefully this stops the unrelenting sales calls from suspicious looking numbers!
    Portland, Oregon • 39°F
    3 likes 1 repost 3 replies
    Mon, Feb 8, 2021 11:33am -08:00 #spam
  • Blocking Domains in webmention.io

    For the past week or so, I've been getting a series of Pingbacks from a spam blog that reposts a blog post a couple times a day as a new post each time. It's up to about 220 copies of the post, each one having sent me a Pingback, and each one showing up in my reader as a notification, which also causes it to be sent to my phone.
    continue reading...
    4 likes 1 bookmark 2 replies 2 mentions
    Mon, Dec 17, 2018 1:24pm -08:00 #webmention #p3k #block #spam
  • Chris Aldrich https://boffosocko.com/

    Something got me thinking about comments on my website here. Almost no one posts native replies on my posts. I’d have to think that 99.9999% of all the replies on my website are now via Webmention. Perhaps I should cut off native replies just to cut back on the amount of spam I get? Hmmm….

    Bellevue, Washington • 44°F
    5 mentions
    Mon, Dec 10, 2018 8:38pm -08:00 (liked on Mon, Dec 10, 2018 10:49pm -08:00) #indieweb #social-stream #spam #webmention
  • aaronpk https://github.com/aaronpk   •   Apr 1

    #25 spam prevention

    Aaron Parecki

    I like the idea of giving the community the ability to help with this. That also happens to be the easiest thing to implement. Loqi now has a new !kick command.

    • If you are +v (you're registered on irc-people), you can use the new !kick command
    • You can say !kick foobar to kick that person from the room, but only if they joined less than 5 minutes ago
    Portland, Oregon • 53°F
    Sat, Apr 14, 2018 9:34am -07:00 #irc #spam
  • Aaron Parecki
    If your unsubscribe link asks me to type my email address before it unsubscribes me, I'm marking your email as spam.
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    5 likes 1 repost 8 replies
    Thu, Dec 15, 2016 8:37am -08:00 #email #spam
  • Aaron Parecki
    Some select quotes from this fantastic post by someone who used to work on the Gmail anti-spam systems.
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    1 like
    Tue, Aug 16, 2016 8:10pm -07:00 #spam #vouch #indieweb
  • https://aaronparecki.com/2016/08/16/15/spam
    Aaron Parecki
    > Another approach would be to allow cross-signing - an entity with good reputation can temporarily countersign mail to give it a reputational boost and trigger cross-propagation of reputations. That entity could employ whatever techniques they liked to verify the senders legitimacy.
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Tue, Aug 16, 2016 8:03pm -07:00 #spam #vouch
  • https://aaronparecki.com/2016/08/16/15/spam
    Aaron Parecki
    > When you have central control everything becomes a million times easier because you can change anything at any time. You can terminate accounts and control signups. If you don't have central control,
    you have to rely exclusively on inbound filtering and have to just suck it up when spammers try to find ways around your defences.
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Tue, Aug 16, 2016 8:01pm -07:00 #spam
  • https://aaronparecki.com/2016/08/16/15/spam
    Aaron Parecki
    > All major webmail and social services force users to perform phone verification if they trip an abuse filter. This sends a random code via SMS or voice call to a phone number and verifies the user can receive it. It works because phone numbers are a resource that have a cost associated with them, yet~all users have one.
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Tue, Aug 16, 2016 7:58pm -07:00 #spam
  • https://aaronparecki.com/2016/08/16/15/spam
    Aaron Parecki
    > Gmail was hit especially hard by this because early on Paul Buchheit (the creator) decided not to include the client IP address in email headers. This was either a win for user privacy or a blatant violation of the RFCs, depending on who you asked. It also turned Gmail into the worlds biggest anonymous remailer...
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Tue, Aug 16, 2016 7:35pm -07:00 #spam
  • https://aaronparecki.com/2016/08/16/15/spam
    Aaron Parecki
    > The reputation system was generalised to calculate reputations over *features* of messages beyond just sending domain. A message feature can be, for example, a list of the domains found in clickable hyperlinks. Links would turn out to be a critical battleground that would be extensively fought over in the years ahead.
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Tue, Aug 16, 2016 7:33pm -07:00 #spam
  • https://aaronparecki.com/2016/08/16/15/spam
    Aaron Parecki
    > Eventually it had to be replaced with an online system that recalculates scores on the fly. This system is a tremendously impressive piece of engineering - it's basically a global, real time peer to peer learning system. There are no masters. The filter is distributed throughout the world and can tolerate the loss of multiple datacenters.

    > I don't want to think about how you'd build one of these outside a highly controlled environment, it was enough of a headache even in the proprietary/centralised setting ....
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Tue, Aug 16, 2016 7:32pm -07:00 #spam
  • https://aaronparecki.com/2016/08/16/15/spam
    Aaron Parecki
    > The new definition of spam is "whatever our users say spam is", a definition that cannot be argued with and is simultaneously crisp enough to implement, yet vague enough to adapt to whatever spammers come up with.
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Tue, Aug 16, 2016 5:29pm -07:00 #spam
  • Aaron Parecki
    Now reading https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html to get some ideas for https://indieweb.org/spam

    > I worked at Google for about 7.5 years. For about 4.5 of those I worked on the Gmail abuse team, which is very tightly linked with the spam team (they use the same software, share the same on-call rotations etc).
    Portland, Oregon
    7 replies
    Tue, Aug 16, 2016 5:15pm -07:00 #indieweb #spam
  • Aaron Parecki
    Unexpected benefit of the Twitter "Popular in your network" email flood: finding old accounts I created in 2008 that I forgot about
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    2 likes
    Wed, Jun 3, 2015 9:43pm -07:00 #twitter #spam
  • Aaron Parecki
    from:("popular in your network") -> delete #twitter #spam
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    1 like 1 reply
    Sat, May 30, 2015 5:24pm -07:00 #twitter #spam
  • Aaron Parecki
    "Hi Aaron, I understand you are the person that manages most of the projects for Esri." ... I'm... flattered? #spam
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    2 likes
    Thu, May 14, 2015 9:46am -07:00 #spam
  • Aaron Parecki
    How not to cold-email someone
    4 likes 6 replies 1 mention
    Mon, Apr 6, 2015 12:41pm -07:00 #spam
  • Aaron Parecki
    I was wondering how long it would take people to spam Google Analytics. Looks like it's happening now. http://www.ditherandbicker.com/posts/2015-01-10-rip-google-analytics.html
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    2 reposts
    Sun, Jan 11, 2015 5:44am -08:00 #spam #google #googleanalytics #analytics
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

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