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0 pointsmickael8y ago0 comments

On the increasing number of accounts, it could as well be due to a rise in spam that we have seen on XMPP.

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upofadown8y ago· 2 in thread

That's interesting. How do you do spam on XMPP?

You register with public jabber servers and send thousands of messages to crawled and constructed destination addresses:

https://yaxim.org/blog/2017/12/22/spam-reduction-on-yax-dot-...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xsender-the-s...

https://github.com/ge0rg/jabber-spam-fighting-manifesto

upofadown8y ago

OK, thanks. I hadn't thought such a thing would be worth the bother, but I guess spam will find a way.

I guess the eventual problem here is that everyone affected will turn off reception of messages from strangers. That would make XMPP somewhat less useful as a general method of getting in touch with someone.

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