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Q: How do I decode the information on this webpage, an other data like it? ( No Answer, 3 Comments )

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Subject: How do I decode the information on this webpage, an other data like it?
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: plf5403-ga
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Posted: 13 Aug 2004 11:43 PDT
Expires: 12 Sep 2004 11:43 PDT
Question ID: 387465

http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/school/report.cgi/grandparent/chlorate/stooge/dipole.htm

This encoding seems to be a form of steganography but on a public website.

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Subject: Re: How do I decode the information on this webpage, an other data like it?
From: super_aardvark-ga on 14 Aug 2004 14:57 PDT

I don't believe the text on that page has any meaning whatsoever.  It
is randomly generated by a cgi script.  Try reloading or refreshing
the page a few times, and you'll see what I mean.

Subject: Re: How do I decode the information on this webpage, an other data like it?
From: nixit-ga on 15 Aug 2004 10:56 PDT

As the previous commenter said, there is no meaning to the text. It
looks like it is generated by a program called wpoison, which makes up
bogus email addresses to "poison" the email databases of spammers who
use robots to search web pages for anything@anythingelse.something.
It'll keep the robots running in circles, following links to more
automatically generated pages with more bogus email addresses.

See http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,8852,00.html and
http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/ for more info.

Subject: Re: How do I decode the information on this webpage, an other data like it?
From: btgarner-ga on 15 Dec 2004 10:30 PST

the above explanation is correct, with one exception, the page is not
running wpoison, but rather a homegrown system.

http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/school/faq.html gives all the answers as to
what the script is, does, and even a link to the Perl source.

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