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Note: We don't ever see your e-mail if you
submit this form—just take a look at the source code of this
page.
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Hiding Your Email
For the the Medium to High Threat Environment
— Adapted from Tim
Williams: AntiSpam Countermeasures
This form takes your e-mail address and converts it into the ISO-Latin-1
code for each character. It then makes a big string of those codes
wrapped in a Javascript. This Javascript must then be placed in
the web page you are developing. Someone using a Javascript enabled
browser will see your address and be able to mail you via a standard
mailto: link, however any e-mail harvesting agents will merely see
an array of numbers, not even an @ sign will be visible. Your email
will appear as
60, 97, 32, 104, 114, 101, 102, 61, 34, 109, 97, 105, 108, 116,
111, 58, 116, 105, 109, 109, 121, 119, 64, 97, 108, 111, 104,
97, 46, 110, 101, 116, 34, 62, 116, 105, 109, 109, 121, 119, 64,
97, 108, 111, 104, 97, 46, 110, 101, 116, 60, 47, 97, 62
to an email harvesting progam. This will thwart the majority of
those disreputable scoundrels who see fit to sell your address without
your permission. In the construction of websites, we always take
steps countermeasures to secure the information at the proper level
for the proper medium.
This page will output the Javascript containing those codes which
you will need to copy and put in your page where you want your address
to appear. If you want someone without a Javascript enabled browser
to email you, then you will have to either include your email, suitably
camoflauged, in the noscipt tag or obfuscate it using a simpler
method — such as substituting each character of your e-mail
address for the corresponding hexadecimal code.
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