Hacker's ramblings

"Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website." (Direct quote from their website.)

Utilizing the results from the project is pretty straightforward, just get an existing library and start using it to check incoming IP-addresses. One of the PHP-libraries is AbyssGuard. It is distributed under GPLv3 for personal use. Being an open-source fan I naturally like to exercise my GPLv3-given right to modify and distribute modified copies of the original work.

However, in this case the author chose not to distribute the source code. WTF?! It appears that the only format he chose to distribute the project is in obfuscated code. I don't much care about PHP's eval()-function and like to configure my PHP with disable_functions=eval whenever possible, so this piece won't even run on my box.

I did the only reasonable thing an open-source loving PHP-coder would do. I de-obfuscated the code and distributed it on my site with appropriate GPLv3-required notification about it. So feel free, it is at http://opensource.hqcodeshop.com/AbyssGuard/ for you to get it.