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Bug #36768 Email addresses easily harvested
Submitted: 2006-03-17 08:13 UTC Modified: 2008-11-28 23:39 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: phpbug at chipple dot net Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Website problem
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Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-03-17 08:13 UTC] phpbug at chipple dot net
Description:
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The way email addresses are currently obfuscated in the documentation and on bugs.php.net makes it easy for spammers to harvest them just by sending queries to Google.

For example, the Google search queries:
  "* at * dot *" site:php.net
  "* at * dot * dot *" site:php.net
match tons of email addresses, and Google even makes it easy to parse them out since they're highlighted in bold in the results.

It would be a good thing if the php.net site would obfuscate users' email addresses in a non-Googleable manner such as removing spaces around "at" and "dot" (e.g. bugsATphpDOTnet) or similar.


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 [2008-11-28 23:39 UTC] danbrown@php.net
This is still the unwritten standard for plain-text email obfuscation, so at this time the issue won't be fixed.
 
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