[81267] in Cypherpunks
Re: Password pirates plunder XXX sites, from The Netly News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Thu Jun 5 13:42:07 1997
From: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>, <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Cc: <dcsb@ai.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:15:18 -0400
Reply-To: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
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>Although you can never completely eliminate it, technological fixes
to do
>velocity checking, source IP address profiling, etc., seem so obvious
I
>just don't see how this can be any sort of insurmountable problem...
Agreed but see bellow
>It should have been obvious from the start that you would have a lot
more
>people trying to steal service from a porn site than from, say, a
Disney
>site.
I think the problem is that a large number of the people who run porn
sites are neither technically sophisticated nor well funded. I suspect
that many do not know how to write a program and can't afford hiring
someone to do it for them.
Its a business where there are low barriers to entry and there are a
very large number of competitors. One way of discouraging new entrants
is to claim that there are major technical problems...
Phill
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