I’ve been working heavily on a project with Mark for the last couple of weeks, hence the distinct lack of posts here. However, a spam email I received triggered a thought.
I don’t get much spam and thanks to Thunderbird’s junk filtering I barely have to spend any time even thinking about it. Recently, though, I’ve been paying it more attention because I realised that I can do my part in making the web a safer place: In Firefox you can report scam sites, or “web forgeries” as they call them. This information is then passed on to all other Firefox users and they are warned if they ever visit that scam site. Cool, huh? So that’s what I’m doing now, to try and give a little bit back. Want to help?