[81445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Thu Jun 9 20:43:18 2005
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:42:50 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00d101c56d4f$898117f0$6801a8c0@stephen>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 06/09/05, Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote:
> If my grandmother has a "reputation" for sending legitimate email, and she
> inadvertently installs some spam zombie software, it is certainly feasible
> (and probably trivial) for the spammer to steal all her credentials and thus
> her "reputation". Spam will get out for a while, but once her "reputation"
> significantly degrades, it will be stopped -- as will any future legitimate
> email from her.
Anyone who has been paying much attention to the spam problem in
the past few years already knows that assigning a bad reputation
forever is a bad idea -- especially to dialups.
What's more likely to happen in your Grandmother's case is that
her IP/e-mail address will have a bad reputation for a while,
and then she'll call you and you'll come over and un-zombify her
cmoputer and say "okay, Grandma, remember what we said about
clicking on links on porn sites?" and she'll say "oh, but it was
blinking such pretty colors!" and a few hours/days later the
reputation will have returned to the default state.
--
J.D. Falk blong! you are a pickle!
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
