{"id":179,"date":"2005-09-20T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/20\/mailinatorspam-map\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T15:04:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T15:04:58","slug":"mailinatorspam-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/20\/mailinatorspam-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailinator:Spam Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered where all that spam is coming from? Take a look at Mailinator&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mailinator.com\/mailinator\/map.html\">Spam Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They have mapped the geo-lookup of the IP addresses in their received spam against <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\">google<\/a>&#8216;s maps.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t seem to be much there at the moment, and I suppose that distributed bot nets won&#8217;t show up because they wouldn&#8217;t make it into the top list.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to see the one in London was one of <a href=\"http:\/\/uk2.net\">uk2.net<\/a>&#8216;s mail servers.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/spammapuk2.gif' alt=''uk2.net relaying spam\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Postscript: <a href=\"http:\/\/myvogonpoetry.com\/wp\/index.php\">Brian Pipa<\/a> who wrote the code for the Spam Map contacted me about the above image, asking which browser\/OS was used (Mac OS X\/Safari), as the formatting was not as it should look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered where all that spam is coming from? Take a look at Mailinator&#8217;s Spam Map. They have mapped the geo-lookup of the IP addresses in their received spam against google&#8216;s maps. Doesn&#8217;t seem to be much there at the moment, and I suppose that distributed bot nets won&#8217;t show up because they wouldn&#8217;t make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,15],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-spam","tag-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}