[Asrg] Receiver Initiated Authentication
SM
sm at resistor.net
Mon Sep 17 15:13:32 EDT 2007
At 11:12 17-09-2007, Chris Lewis wrote:
>Freudian slip? ;-)
No. :-) I was merely pointing out why every new measure introduced
gets circumvented.
>I can't help thinking that spammers will have a field day spamming
>themselves with forged, say, @hotmail.com, doing the captchas to
>"approve" bogus IPs, and then firehosing the world with what would
>now verify. The Nigerian 419 hordes would have fun.
Or they could push more authenticated mail through as they already
control the user's computer.
Regards,
-sm
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