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		shaky-carrousel on Aug 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sending spammers to password purgatory I found a surprisingly effective way of detecting honeypots some time ago, while working at an email marketing company.

thombat on Aug 4, 2022 [–]

You have a truly marvelous demonstration of this method, which this margin is too narrow to contain?

quickthrower2 on Aug 4, 2022 | [–]

Let me guess: honey pots are on all the torrented/darkweb lists of emails that get shared. Regular vics will be on a subset or just one.

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