Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

[Brandon Ross <bross () pobox com>]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:

> On Mar 27, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Brandon Ross <bross () pobox com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >
> > > On Mar 27, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Barry Shein <bzs () world std com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Please explain in detail where the fraud potential comes in.
> >
> > Spammer uses his botnet of zombie machines to send email from each of them to his own domain using the user's 
> > legitimate email address as From:. Spammer says it was unsolicited and keeps the full $.10/email that victim users have 
> > deposited into this escrow thing.
> >
> > Sounds a lot more profitable than regular spam.
>
> You say this like having a tax on running a botted computer on the 
> internet would be a bad thing.

Heh, perhaps not...

> I agree that it would provide a bit of profit to the spammers for a very 
> short period of time, but I bet it would get a lot of bots fixed pretty 
> quick.

I don't think so.  The motivations to continue to game the system are much 
stronger under this scheme because the profits are immediate and direct. 
A spammer no longer has to just hope that the advertising, phishing or 
whatever they are up to is acted upon by the user, instead they get a 
somewhat immediate cash payout that's not dependent on the user.

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