Editing Yuri A. Kabaenkov

'''Yuri A. Kabaenkov''' is the [[w:online identify|online identify]] of a person who, some have alleged is an [[w:evil genius|evil genius]], a 
notorius [[w:hacker|hacker]] and [[w:spammer|spammer]], and possibly an [[w:unfriendly AI|unfriendly AI]].

Kabaenkov's first [[w:usenet|usenet]] posting was to [[w:comp.databases.postgresql.general|comp.databases.postgresql.general]] on [[w:November 24|November 24]], [[w:2001|2001]].
He appeared briefly on [[w:bugtraq|bugtraq]] on May 18, 2002; is named as the author of [[w:apache|apache]] [[w:mod_traf_thief|mod_traf_thief]],
an apache module to skim a percentage of traffic from a [[w:web server|web server]] which was 
published some time in 2003 and is available for download at [http://web.god.net.ru/projects/mod_traf_thief/].

== Allegations of spam ==

On [[w:November 13|November 13]], [[w:2002|2002]],  postings to [[w:news.admin.net-abuse.email|news.admin.net-abuse.email]] alleged that Yuri's site,
antispamcenter.org was a front for an [[w:email harvesting|email harvesting]] operation, due to suspicious information listed on the whois record for the domain: a bogus [[w:NYC|NYC]] address, and other irregularities.

artofit.com is now listed in [[w:SPEWS|SPEWS]] as a [[w:spam gang|spam gang]].

== Contact info ==
Kabaenkov is rumoured to reside in [[w:Russia|Russia]].

* mailto:hellman@artofit.com, mailto:sec@artofit.com
* http://search.cpan.org/~hellman/ 

== External links ==

* http://web.god.net.ru/projects/mod_traf_thief/
* http://www.google.com/search?q=mod_traf_thief
* http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4hk5tuk1hueguqtbeofnkk36112cs5orma%404ax.com
* http://groups.google.com/groups?q=antispamcenter.org+artofit.com