[45635] in Cypherpunks
Re: Forged email to sway congress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hallam@w3.org)
Tue Dec 19 19:27:05 1995
To: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen), cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: hallam@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 95 16:01:45 EST."
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 95 18:45:50 -0500
From: hallam@w3.org
It already happens with other media. The Christian Coalition have an army of
letter writters at their call. They simply write a very large number of letters
and post them. It is not difficult if you can afford it.
Political staffers know all about this type of thing and can recognise spam.
It would be usefull to have some mechanism for producing a one time use ID on
the Web however. This would be configured such that each party can vote once but
once only. There is stuff in the open meeting system that does this using an
email callback loop (later used by First Virtual).
Phill
