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- - P.I.S.S. Philez Number 29 =
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- - Coping With Mailbombing =
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- - by Defenestrator =
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- Yes folks, you all know the drill. You open your email box and you see
- like 300 messages full of nothing, or even worse, subscribed to 50 mail
- lists like "Gay Plumber's Repair". This, of course, is mailbombing.
- Mailbombing is normally done by people who want to get back at others
- who make them mad. This is normally done by lamers who don't know jack
- shit about doing REAL things to people (not like I do them though ;) ) and
- they just open a program and BAM, instant harrassment. I used to do
- this when I had no actual hacking knowledge (many could say I still
- don't, but they can fuck themselves) and just wanted to feel like I
- could ruin someone's life. I still do it sometimes, though without a
- program, just with Linux commands. However, I haven't done it in
- several months. Now I know that mailbombing is pointless, because you
- can jsut delete the mails (ooohhh...15 seconds worth of work) or if
- you're subscribed to mail lists, block sender of all the maillists. I'm
- not going to rehash that. I'm gonna tell you how to tell who mailbombed
- you and how to get them back.
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- If you know someone has mailbombed you, turn on something called
- extended headers. This will show the entire route the mail took to get
- in your mailbox. The beginning part will be what you saw normally,
- which implicates no one. But if you look closer, you see all the hops
- along the route. Look at either the first or second one. It should
- show an email address which does NOT look like a router because it has a
- username which someone might actually use. This is either his email
- address or how he connected to the net. So you run a finger on that
- email address, and if something comes up, then you've got him. If not,
- then try changing the domain name around and eventually you will get it.
- Whatever it is, you at least have his username.
-
- If you catch this guy, you can either mailbomb him back and be stupid,
- or send a message to root@hisdomain or postmaster@hisdomain with a copy
- of the mailbomb (for proof) and tell the guy that he mailbombed you and
- just make up some bullshit like that (well actually it wouldn't be
- bullshit). It will probably get him kicked off his ISP, which is a
- royal pain in the ass for those that have gone through it.
-
- If you didn't think I explained this too well, or have ONE copy of a
- mailbomb you'd like me to work on, mail me at defenestrator@hotmail.com
- . If you want to mailbomb me, mailbomb dev/null@hotmail.com . That
- really pisses me off when you mail dev/null.
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- Defenestrator
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