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Re: [Asrg] 0.General - News Article - NYT Reports Porn Spam Hijacking Network

Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net> Fri, 11 July 2003 18:07 UTC

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Alan DeKok wrote:
> 
...
> 
>   Unless the propogation of these malware programs is quenched, I
> think this incident can be taken as the start of the end for mobile
> users of naked, unauthenticated, unverifiable SMTP.  There are other
> methods by which they can send email, and those methods will help
> protect against this kind of spam attack, at least.
> 
>   While spammers can adapt and change their methods, I think that
> other than willingly cooperating spam houses, this method of co-opting
> thousands of random computers is probably the simplest and most
> effective way of sending spam.

This is the specific problem that DRIP addresses. See

	http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-brand-drip-00.txt


Raymond S Brand

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