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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, | 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 | 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. | ||
on the whois record for the domain: a bogus [[w:NYC|NYC]] address. | |||
artofit.com is now listed in [[w:SPEWS|SPEWS]] as a [[w:spam gang|spam gang]]. | artofit.com is now listed in [[w:SPEWS|SPEWS]] as a [[w:spam gang|spam gang]]. | ||
== Contact info == | == Contact info == | ||
Latest revision as of 21:48, 22 February 2005
Yuri A. Kabaenkov is the online identify of a person who, some have alleged is an evil genius, a notorius hacker and spammer, and possibly an unfriendly AI.
Kabaenkov's first usenet posting was to comp.databases.postgresql.general on November 24, 2001. He appeared briefly on bugtraq on May 18, 2002; is named as the author of apache mod_traf_thief, an apache module to skim a percentage of traffic from a web server which was published some time in 2003 and is available for download at [1].
Allegations of spam[edit | edit source]
On November 13, 2002, postings to news.admin.net-abuse.email alleged that Yuri's site, antispamcenter.org was a front for an email harvesting operation, due to suspicious information listed on the whois record for the domain: a bogus NYC address, and other irregularities.
artofit.com is now listed in SPEWS as a spam gang.
Contact info[edit | edit source]
Kabaenkov is rumoured to reside in Russia.