More moderators to help keep the Tank clean
posted by John Roberts on February 6th, 2007 in PhishTank, Members, Community, Moderators
Back in November, I welcomed the first group of PhishTank moderators.
That first group (Simurgh, clubjuggle, funchords, micha, Sedna, spamfighter, Chris1948) was joined by Char shortly afterwards, and MASA a couple of weeks later.
Last week, a bunch of stalwarts — quite recognizable from the stats page — joined the moderator crew. Please join me in greeting the new moderators: JustaPerson, cleanmx, ruralnetcop, milky, bowlby4, miowpurr, buaya, thelionheart, DougieLawson, polymorp, tetak, and pscs.
This expanded team has helped take charge of site activities, and there are lots of ideas percolating for improvements. On a related note, the users mailing list is quite active, too, with lots of good ideas. Many of the moderators are there, too.
As I type, the first outside developers (still room for more) are getting their development environments set up .
All over, 2007 is going to be a good year for the ‘Tank.
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Hello
Is it ok to annoy the phishing sites?
For example, you can enter insults and other nonsense into them.
Is this ok if a person has the time to fart around?
— posted by Hello on February 6th, 2007 at 6:35 am
John Roberts
Do what you will… but if you have extra time to spend and you want to help fight phishing, then voting on PhishTank submissions, or submitting phishing sites, is probably a more effective practice.
— posted by John Roberts on February 6th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
ping3diveswithsharks
Yeah
It is absolutely OK to annoy phishing sites,
but be sure there are no open ports on your firewall!
vnc,ssh,http maybe emule? everything closed?
after that it’s just great fun!!
— posted by ping3diveswithsharks on February 6th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Mads Dam
Phishing could be described as a small group annoying millions. But if those millions annoyed the small phishing group, it would soon disappear (and hopefully find an honest job). So, why not..?
If somebody phishes for personal data, feed them with fake information - instead of just clicking ‘delete’ and sigh. Here’s a link to someone doing it already, and publishing the result too: www.419baiter.com
Here’s a related idea: When spammers scan the internet to search for new email adresses to abuse, why not again feed them a lot of nonsens? You don’t even have to implement this yourself; a link to a site already doing it is enough. Here are two examples (but I’m sure there are more): www.testmyfirewall.com/antispam.html or www.auditmypc.com/freescan/antispam.html
— posted by Mads Dam on March 10th, 2007 at 8:58 am