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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Spamhaus et al. [Sender anonymized by request]
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Wed Mar 27 01:39:15 2013
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:20:40 -0700
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 NN:16:47 -NNNN
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Subject: Spamhaus et al.
To: lauren@vortex.com
Lauren:
It is with some amusement that I read the article about Spamhaus vs.
Cyberbunker, and it's a story that hits very close to home. See, I
work as an engineer for a reasonably sized ISP, who shall remain
nameless. Recently, we've seen a major uptick in compromised accounts
and virus infected PCs all putting our mail gateways on various spam
blacklists.
What is worrysome to me, not only "professionally" but personally, is
we (as the administrators of a mail exchanger) is the increasingly
invasive solutions we are having to consider to fight spam.
We log every message. We log who sent it, from what IP address, and to
whom. We scan headers and payloads for potentially "spammy" topics. We
even retain binary attachments and other payload data. Whereas before,
the Email system only logged trivial, non-identifiable information, it
now warehouses every message and tags it internally with a customer
account number.
This is the "equal and opposite" reaction to blacklists: Total
Information Awareness applied to our customer's email.
I lose sleep at night waiting for the day law enforcement and/or a
wiley cracker breaks into this treasure trove.
Feel free to share if anonymized.
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--Lauren--
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