Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-)

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:58:36PM -0500, Paul Robertson wrote:
...
> Once a non-trivial number of people get certificates, then spammers just
> need to compromise those boxes and take them.  This doesn't address that,
> nor the hurdles of having people pass a turing test, nor supporting those
> who don't understand the language it's written in...

Why should they bother?  They're people, too.  They get a cert, good
for up to 100 messages at a time ... but 1,000,000 is only 10,000 times
100, and with sufficient processor power, how long does it take to do
10,000 operations?

Not to mention that they won't necessarily bother to use a
rate-limiting client.

IMHO, any solution that depends on co-operation from the "bad guys" is
not a solution.

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () center osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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