Mailto is a class written by Debugged Interactive Designs in PHP4 to obfuscate e-mail addresses from spam harvesters. The class lets you easily encode an entire anchor tag using ROT13 Encryption. At run-time, javascript is used to decode the ROT13 encryption. If javascript is disabled, then the e-mail address is safely shown by reversing the e-mail address using PHP and re-reversing (versing?) it at run-time using CSS.
Silvan Mühlemann wrote the article Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared, where he uses 9 different e-mail addresses over a 1.5 year period. On this page he published the e-mail addresses using 9 different techniques. It turns out using ROT13 encoding (see our Mailto CakePHP helper) was one of the 3 techniques that "...are absolutely rock-solid and keep your addresses safe from the harvesters."
We wrote and submitted 2 articles (1 and 2) to cakephp.org's bakery and they were both published. One is the tutorial Captcha Component with Securimage, which explains how to integrate the Securimage class with CakePHP. The other is the tutorial Bake ROT13 Encoded "mailto:" Links, which explains how to write a CakePHP helper to fool spambots...
A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract document has been analyzed to assert that advanced video spying from the sky is on the way. The contract in question was awarded last month and involves indexing video feeds and matching feeds against stored footage...
Loveland Basin & Arapahoe Basin Tie for First to Open in North America on Oct 15th (today). |
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