madblacker
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- Nov 2, 2009
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I've been working a lot lately coding an app in PHP / Perl that will automate a lot of things, one of my main targets has been hushmail.com for creating accounts, sending mass emails, etc.. everything was fine until today I get this message (when testing one of my automated scripts) that said something like:
"Your computer has been marked for abuse / spam and we have disabled access" or some crap like that...
So actually I hadn't been using proxies since I was just finishing up testing a beta version of the app so I thought, no big deal, I'll just use some proxies and everything will be fine..
I decided to do some manual testing of the access to the site with proxies, using the newest Firefox, I cleared everything in my browser (cache, etc) and then used an anonymous proxy that I tested to make sure was anonymous.. and then.. same message as before, "Access denied, etc"..
I tried a few other anonymous proxies and same thing each time, this is kinda freaking me out because I don't undestand what possible way they are tracking me... I was not logging in, just going to the registration page and getting this message.. my IP has since changed (I have wireless internet so it changes a lot) so access works now for Hushmail but this is definitely making me more than a little uneasy as I don't understand what they are doing.. any advice is greatly appreciated
NOTE: The anon proxies were definitely not denied access based on their IP as now they work when accessing hushmail as my local IP has since changed
"Your computer has been marked for abuse / spam and we have disabled access" or some crap like that...
So actually I hadn't been using proxies since I was just finishing up testing a beta version of the app so I thought, no big deal, I'll just use some proxies and everything will be fine..
I decided to do some manual testing of the access to the site with proxies, using the newest Firefox, I cleared everything in my browser (cache, etc) and then used an anonymous proxy that I tested to make sure was anonymous.. and then.. same message as before, "Access denied, etc"..
I tried a few other anonymous proxies and same thing each time, this is kinda freaking me out because I don't undestand what possible way they are tracking me... I was not logging in, just going to the registration page and getting this message.. my IP has since changed (I have wireless internet so it changes a lot) so access works now for Hushmail but this is definitely making me more than a little uneasy as I don't understand what they are doing.. any advice is greatly appreciated
NOTE: The anon proxies were definitely not denied access based on their IP as now they work when accessing hushmail as my local IP has since changed
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