How Counter-Strike Map Credits Led to Email Harvesting and Forced Blackholing in 2002
The author recounts a personal story from 2002 about how his email address ([email protected]) was harvested by worms due to being credited in Counter-Strike map files, leading to massive spam volumes that threatened his broadband account termination. He had to ask his ISP to blackhole his primary email address to prevent the account from being shut down, hi
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