Fri, 03 Apr 2009
Hide In Plain Sight
I've put Lama Gursam's 2009 schedule online on his web site. The last task in getting it done was hiding the email addresses from the spammers. I looked on the Internet for scripts to do this, but in my opinion most were just crap. So I wrote a little script of my own. The script comverts the email address from a hexdecimal string with a small amount of "encrption," just a simple xor with a constant. There's a companion Perl script which generates the javascript tags and converts the email address to hexadecimal. It's a very simple solution, but one I hope is offbeat enough to stop the robospam scripts.
