A new widget has been released for the very security conscious or for those troubled by spam.

Email Cloaker encodes your email address making it harder for spammers to harvest it for their mailing lists.

It offers two different types of encoding, javascript (right) or HTML character entities (left):

A widget for this seems slightly like overkill to me.

Unless you change your email address often, it might be easier to use a web-based service like Email Address Encoder once, store the result in a text file and just re-use it as needed.

The widget is freeware and is available in Apple’s widget library .email, email addresses, encoding, cloaking, widget, spam

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Tags: cloaking, email, email addresses, encoding, spam, widget

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