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Re: Directory Trolling
From: "Hauber, Wayne [ITSEC]" <wjhauber () IASTATE EDU>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:58:23 -0500
A few years ago, I personally tried to find a doctor from Northwestern who had helped a family member. I wanted to send a thank you note. I could not find a campus directory anywhere and soon realized that I could not find any e-mail addresses anywhere. After a bit of digging, I found a policy for web developers that stated something like "thou shalt not ever publish an e-mail address on a web page". The captcha that they deliver now must represent an evolution in their policy. I like it though and wish we could do something similar. Wayne Hauber Iowa State University
-----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Connelly Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:22 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Directory Trolling Northwestern displays the e-mail address from a directory lookup as a simplistic captcha image. I've been trying for a couple of years to get a similar thing implemented here, but so far... http://directory.northwestern.edu/ - ken On 6/15/10 11:43 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote:Folks, Did any of you encountered Directory Trolling? Any thoughts on how to prevent this? In the Corporate world, we don't expose directories at all, so it was never a big issue! We are planning to have Captcha, but it might be a usability thing. Any help, greatly appreciated. Thanks. Ravi Kumar, CISSP Middleware Manager ITS, Enterprise Infra Services Boston College - St. Clement's P: 617.552.3382-- - Ken ================================================================= Ken Connelly Associate Director, Security and Systems ITS Network Services University of Northern Iowa email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu p: (319) 273-5850 f: (319) 273-7373
Current thread:
- Directory Trolling Ravi Kumar (Jun 15)
- Re: Directory Trolling Ken Connelly (Jun 15)
- Re: Directory Trolling Daniel Bennett (Jun 15)
- Re: Directory Trolling Laverty, Patrick (Jun 15)
- Re: Directory Trolling Hauber, Wayne [ITSEC] (Jun 15)
- Re: Directory Trolling Julian Y. Koh (Jun 15)
- Re: Directory Trolling Daniel Bennett (Jun 15)
- Re: Directory Trolling Valdis Kletnieks (Jun 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Directory Trolling Myers, Julie (Jun 15)
- Re: Directory Trolling Hunt,Keith A (Jun 15)
- Re: Directory Trolling Ken Connelly (Jun 15)