On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Alan Bostick wrote:
Somebody, too clever for their own good by half, has come up with a novel way of using Usenet and anonymous remailers to perpetrate mailbombs. The M.O. is to post a message to the naked-lady newsgroups saying "get pics in your mailbox! send this message to this address!), giving the email address of a cypherpunk-style anonymous remailer and including a pgp-encrypted message block.
Yuck. Unless someone comes forward to say that they were the target of this attack, I'd guess that the target is the remailer network itself.
Xref: netcom.com alt.sex:292849 alt.sex.wizards:44144 alt.sex.magazines:11634 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica:364153 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes:48686 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female:130066 alt.sex.movies:91249 alt.sex.pictures:98757 Newsgroups: alt.sex,alt.sex.wizards,alt.sex.magazines,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female,alt.sex.movies,alt.sex.pictures Path: netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!nuclear.microserve.net!luzskru.cpcnet.com!www-39-190 From: luzskru@cpcnet.com (luzskru) Subject: Get Penthouse and Playboy pics on your mail box!! Message-ID: <1b7cc$12a26.20@luzskru.cpcnet.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 18:10:37 GMT Organization: http://www.cpcnet.com/~luzskru/home.htm X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Lines: 119
This article is still on nntp.stanford.edu. I've issued a cancel. Sites far removed from stanford.edu should consider doing the same. luzskru@cpcnet.com, of course, doesn't exist, *BUT* there is a luzskru.cpcnet.com in the DNS. And while every other port seems to be closed, there is an open NNTP port. N:~> telnet luzskru.cpcnet.com nntp Trying 198.70.185.5... Connected to luzskru.cpcnet.com. Escape character is '^]'. 200 luzskru.cpcnet.com NNS server version X2.06 ready - posting allowed quit 205 closing connection - goodbye Connection closed by foreign host. postmaster@cpcnet.com is probably a victim of this, but he should still be flayed with a wet noodle for letting this happen. -rich