[3289] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: you creeps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Sorder)
Thu Oct 17 19:56:43 1996
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:11:20 -0600 (MDT)
From: Damien Sorder <jericho@dimensional.com>
To: Charlie_Kaufman/Iris.IRIS@iris.com
cc: cprince@mfi.com, Www-Security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9610161812.AA8611@moe.iris.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> In the long run, the solution is an intelligent mailbox and mail
> signing (ala PGP). If signed mail became nearly universal, you
> could instruct your mailbox to silently discard unsigned mail, and
> even figure out ways to choose to screen advertising and perhaps
> dirty words. Hopefully, this could be integrated in a way that makes
> filtering take place upstream so as not to waste expensive
> bandwidth.
That can be defeated by creating a low grade key, and signing the message
with it. The original mention of making only subscribers able to post was
good.. but who says this person or someone else couldn't subscribe from
the mixmaster address?
Moderation would work if anyone is up to it.
