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Priceless: Cornell University Library Facilitates Spam

Posted in Cornell.edu, Crime, Electronic by Cornell's Most Infamous on January 4th, 2007.

I just received the most beautiful spam comment on one of my other blogs:

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Since the Cornell Library Resolver uses an http Location header to send user-agents from one of its pURLs to a real URL, a spammer just has to sign up with the library for an account through its unsecured interface and begin spamming away. Backlinks from a .edu site definitely help, I’ll tell you. So, what happens if you click on of these links? You get this:

cornell-library-spam-sample.jpg

Thanks, Cornell! All I want for christmas is my load of spam, my load of spam…

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