Why "secure" an Email address?

Email addresses that are posted on the Internet are freely exposed for everyone to see.  It wasn't long before some profit seeking people figured out that they could go around collecting these Email addresses and selling their lists to people who would generate spam mailings.  It is inefficient to collect Email addresses by hand and so programmers developed scripts to automate this collection.  Today, it is possible for even high school students to download these type of scripts.

So hiding Email addresses that are posted on the web helps protect that mailbox from subsequent spam.

What is Enkoder?

Enkoder is a product of a software company in Florida named Hiveware.

Use Hiveware yourself, here.

Read a review of Hiveware's Enkoder, here.

How does Enkoder work?

Enkoder takes an email address such as, < joe.smith@nowhere.edu > and converts it to code that computers can read, but Email-harvesting-scripts can't.  The following is the actual code for Joe Smith's Email:

<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
function hivelogic_enkoder(){var kode=
"kode=\"oked\\\"=kode\\\"\\\\'=()i'jn)oe.r(vsre)e'.t'l(siepo.=ddkke\\\\o;\\"+
"\\\\\\dc\\\"monu.erttw(i\\\\e\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\a\\\\h<e =r\\\\f\\\\"+
"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\a\\\\lmoijte:soi.hmntw"+
"@eoeheru.\\\\d\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\t\\"+
"\\t ei\\\\l=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\je\\\\"+
"soi.hmntw@eoeheru.\\\\d\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\"+
"\\\\\\j\\\\e>soi.hmntw@eoeheru./d><\\\\a\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\;\\\\\\\\)"+
"\\\\\\\"e\\\\o=\\\\dk\\\";kode=kode.split(").reverse().join("\\\")x;'=;'"+
"of(r=i;0<ik(do.eelgnht1-;)+i2={)+xk=do.ehcratAi(1++)okedc.ahAr(t)ik}do=e+x"+
"i(k<do.eelgnhtk?do.ehcratAk(do.eelgnht1-:)";)\";x=";for(i=0;i<(kode.leng"+
"th-1);i+=2){x+=kode.charAt(i+1)+kode.charAt(i)}kode=x+(i<kode.length?kode."+
"charAt(kode.length-1):");"
;var i,c,x;while(eval(kode));}hivelogic_enkoder();
/* ]]> */
</script>
 

Is Enkoder new?

Enkoder was created in 2002 and I have been using it on DefaultRisk.com for several years.

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