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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rishab@dxm.ernet.in)
Sat May 14 15:59:40 1994
From: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Date: Sun, 15 May 94 00:56:36 +0530
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, ecarp@netcom.com
ecarp@netcom.com (Ed Carp):
> [ auto moderators ]
> > Sounds like a very easy scheme to break. Say I suddenly decide that I
> > don't like your posts or Tim Mays posts. I can get you kicked off by
> > using anonymous accounts to say that you're a nuisance. It seems to me
>
> It's not as easy as you might think. How many anonymous accounts can you get?
> There are only so many anon servers, and for each anon account you have to have
> a different real account, all it buys you is your vote registers twice
Do you know how easy it is to fake an address? I occasionally telnet to port 25
and talk SMTP directly, to avoid spooling, but I have to type in the address
I want the mail to appear from. There's no way of ensuring that I type in
my real address, or _any_ real address at all for that matter.
Digitally signed voting? Only works if you restrict yourself to 'known' voters.
Net identities are very easy to fake or create.
> Ed Carp, N7EKG/VE3 ecarp@netcom.com 519/824-3307
> Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.3a public key an88744@anon.penet.fi
That's an _anonymous_ address, right !? -----------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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