Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups

Re:Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups by VoidWhisperer on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:11AM (#36227016)

I would assume they probably use tor or residential proxies in order to get around any ip related rate limiting

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Re:Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups by krebsonsecurity on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:25AM (#36227172)

This is a fair assumption, although to be fair a botnet is essentially a collection of residential proxies.

And yes, Kopeechka controls the inbox, and only lets you see stuff going forward that matches the regex you specify.

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Re:Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups by moneywoes on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:35AM (#36227306)

Does Tor help here? I thought it’s blocked for clearnet sites

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Re:Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups by crumpled on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:07PM (#36228738)

Tor probably doesn't help, but it's not blocked by design.

Tor traffic meets the rest of the internet via exit nodes. There are a finite number of exit nodes and some sites seem to know what they are at a given time and may block the traffic or present a bunch of extra captchas.

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Re:Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:43PM (#36229415)

Nope, Tor usually makes things worse.

Ask anyone who uses Tor for their day-to-day web browsing. They're often given additional CAPTCHAs and the like. Some sites block them entirely.

Tor might hide where you're coming from, but to any website, it's obvious you're connecting from Tor.

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