Hey folks,
When I checked for false positives in my spam this morning, I spotted
an interesting malformed img link at the top of a spam message.
{snip}
> <http://git.{snip}.n2.nabble.com/file/{snip}/t3.jpg>
>
> Employ a medal tiffany bracelet <{snip}> a is
{snip}
So, apparently git-daemon's http features are being used by spammers.
In most cases, spam filters will correctly identify this junk.
I wonder if there is a better way... In my mental sandbox, git-daemon
http could have a set of deny/allow rules for incoming connection
client types.
e.g.:
git: allow
git-http: allow
thunderbird: deny
outlook express: replace linked file with rickroll.jpg
and so on.. An out-of-the-box install probably should default to
allow all to keep backward compatibility.
While I'd love a chance to hack something out, I sadly doubt I'll ever
have the time for it. Perhaps there is a student hacker looking for a
project.
Cheers!
-phil
p.s. appologies to anyone who now has Astley's song stuck in their
head. This was not intentional.
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