← Back to context Comment by swiley 4 years ago >email server with open relay enabled by default.Every self hoster's nightmare holy cow. 1 comment swiley Reply fleddr 4 years ago The only fun part of the experience was checking the email queue, once I discovered it.To my amazement, it was simply a dictionary-attack style of approach:a@yahoo.com aa@yahoo.com ab@yahoo.comAnd so on. This was 20 years ago so I'm sure it's more sophisticated now, sending based on web scrapers, leaked databases, etc.
fleddr 4 years ago The only fun part of the experience was checking the email queue, once I discovered it.To my amazement, it was simply a dictionary-attack style of approach:a@yahoo.com aa@yahoo.com ab@yahoo.comAnd so on. This was 20 years ago so I'm sure it's more sophisticated now, sending based on web scrapers, leaked databases, etc.
The only fun part of the experience was checking the email queue, once I discovered it.
To my amazement, it was simply a dictionary-attack style of approach:
a@yahoo.com aa@yahoo.com ab@yahoo.com
And so on. This was 20 years ago so I'm sure it's more sophisticated now, sending based on web scrapers, leaked databases, etc.