Comments on: Email Obfuscation Broken http://www.prodevtips.com/2008/07/08/email-obfuscation-broken/ Dev related notes, tutorials and anecdotes Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:29:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: tekkie http://www.prodevtips.com/2008/07/08/email-obfuscation-broken/#comment-3465 tekkie Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:57:50 +0000 http://www.prodevtips.com/2008/07/08/email-obfuscation-broken/#comment-3465 Image would also be reachable for OCR bots like anything else visible on the screen so in that way you won't be protected. Yet the regular HTML-scanning bots would be troubled. Even so, that would equal to using a JavaScript based encoding as a bot scanning the code, wouldn't render it. JavaScript is surely more convenient choice in the circumstances.<br><br>There's Mac OS X Dashboard widget called <a href="http://obfuscatr.flashbit.net" title="obfuscatr - email address obfuscator">obfuscatr</a> that uses this kind of logic. See the details at <a href="http://tekkie.flashbit.net/mac-os/obfuscatr-110-released" title="obfuscatr 1.1.0 released">flash tekkie</a>.<br><br><a href="http://obfuscatr.flashbit.net" title="obfuscatr - email address obfuscator">obfuscatr</a> was also <a href="http://tekkie.flashbit.net/mac-os/obfuscatr-featured-in-macworld" title="obfuscatr featured in Macworld">featured in MacWorld</a> Italy of March 2008. Image would also be reachable for OCR bots like anything else visible on the screen so in that way you won't be protected. Yet the regular HTML-scanning bots would be troubled. Even so, that would equal to using a JavaScript based encoding as a bot scanning the code, wouldn't render it. JavaScript is surely more convenient choice in the circumstances.

There's Mac OS X Dashboard widget called obfuscatr that uses this kind of logic. See the details at flash tekkie.

obfuscatr was also featured in MacWorld Italy of March 2008.

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