You justify all your arguments in favor of pseudospoofing by pointing at existing criminal behavior. Interesting point of view, eh?
Bogus. You just went off the deep-end. If you're so concerned about this capability, why don't you go liberate the net.universe and tell them this amazing fact: you can forge identities on the net. Postings, mail, accounts, even whole domains.
I just did.
NEWSFLASH: Great Cypherpunk Conspiracy Revealed! A california based group of cryptography fans conspire to cover up pseudoanonymous capabilities so they can continue their reign of abuse, exploitation, psychological combat, and the sapping of precious bodily fluids from net.novices.
yep. hope you don't mind.
p.s. all this reminds me of the great mud gender identity debates. Many young males were extremely disturbed that the female MUD users they were practicing cybersex with were actually other males. As a result, most mud users are no longer as gullible. Evolution and natural selection at its best.
MUDs are games. Mailing lists, Usenet, and the Internet are not.
p.p.s you will find that many of us aren't trying to cover pseudoanonymous capability up -- It is just that _we don't care_ I certainly don't care, and I don't think of myself of "the great protector of the ignorant" as you seem to do either.
so?
The facts are, short of demanding digital signatures or passwords for posting to this list, there is nothing you can do to prevent me from forging "From" lines, I could probably forge Received: lines too if I had a well-positioned machine.
you are mistaking the form of the present internet with future cyberspace.
One feature of my Extropian's list software is that it only allows people who are on the list to post to it, and a user can turn on a "password" feature that only allows his address to post if a password is supplied.
it's a start. ltr.