Re: Lists of IP's we should be blocking

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Adam Shostack wrote:

> If you're a bank, and your answer is yes, you want me calling with my
> spyware concerns, please let me know which bank.  I'll have everyone I
> know open up a $100 savings account with you so that people stop
> calling me with their spyware problems.

Have them call me, I could use the money ;)

> The belief that a list of 'bad identities' will help security is
> suprisingly persistant.  We see it distorting air travel safety.
> (Just ask Congressmen Ted Kennedy or John Lewis, or any David Nelson
> you meet, or Johnnie Thomas, or...)  Let's not let it distort internet
> security as well.

I've been playing a little with a contact Web site[1][2] that "introduces"
folks by degrees of separation-  I'm wondering if we could whitelist 90%
of the Internet that way with some relatively simple mail parsing programs
and a web of trust of a couple hundred people on this list?

Paul
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