[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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