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You just saved me some work, thanks!

I also get these emails but run a WordPress site. I was convinced they would fingerprint websites and mail those to these sites only.

It was on my todo to see if I could hide the fingerprint of WordPress.

But now that you mention this, it's obvious it wouldn't do much. In hindsight, I could have know these spammer would just spam everybody in bulk.




Masking your WordPress install is a pretty good idea for plenty of other reasons though, just hiding wp-login will save you a lot of headache with bots wasting your CPU cycles and bandwidth trying to bruteforce.

Sounds like a challenge to hide the wordpressyness entirely though, it's got a huge surface area.




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