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Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-)
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:17:56 -0500
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. -- Joe Yao jsdy () center osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao OSIS Center Systems Support EMT-B ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Chris Blask (Feb 05)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Paul Robertson (Feb 05)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Joseph S D Yao (Feb 06)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Rod Gilchrist (Feb 06)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Joseph S D Yao (Feb 07)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Rod Gilchrist (Feb 07)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Paul Robertson (Feb 07)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Rod Gilchrist (Feb 07)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Paul Robertson (Feb 07)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Joseph S D Yao (Feb 07)
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Paul Robertson (Feb 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-) Chris Blask (Feb 06)