Andy Dustman <andy@CCMSD.chem.uga.edu>
Wasn't there an email forgery web page around for a while. The idea was that you filled in the details of who you wanted to send to, what address you wanted it to appear you had sent it from, and paste your message in this form box. It did some kind of crude sendmail forgery for you.
Hmmm. Someone has recently been forging mail to appear to be from cracker through something like this (very bad forgery, headers are all wrong).
I said "wasn't there", as in past tense. It got nuked years ago now (literally) because of complaints. When I looked at the page it still had the text but a note that it was disabled, and why. Just wandering if anyone knew if anyone else had set up something more recently that still worked.
You'd not want to use the same public access account regularly.
I'm not thinking of an account so much as maybe a PC in a university computer cluster. Pick one and go. At a big university there should be several clusters around campus.
You might get away with that for a pretty long time, I guess.
I think the connecting to the web based interface of one of those free web gateways via www.anonymizer.com web based interface has potential.
It does, but I know The Anonymizer blocks some sites, at their request.
Right. So there is one anonymizer, and if we make a big game of using this method, Lance will get threats, and at best be asked to block them. We need something more distributed. That network of anonymizers isn't here yet.
How much trouble can you get in with ISPs for forging email? Do they care?
Mindspring cares. My ISP was absorbed by them about two weeks after I signed up. They say in their terms of service that impersonating someone else is forbidden, but they specifically allow the use of anonymous remailers and nicknames. I assume this means forging is frowned upon, unless you are impersonating someone who doesn't exist, I guess.
Well I was thinking along the lines of: bubba@dev.null type addresses yes. You ain't imitating anyone there. I wonder if they frown on generating non-replyable email addresses though. Non-existant domains. I speculated in the previous post that perhaps the habit of using: gizmo@netcom.com.NOSPAM might make ISPs accustomed to having people use non-replyable email address all the time. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`