Forged email to sway congress
It seems like a trivial thing to do, but if email to Congress works to sway opinion, it should be fairly easy to create thousands of email messages from different apparent sources each hour, all supporting a point of view, and to suppliment this effort with a small telephone room full of people to fill congressional switchboards with supportive phone calls. Interesting PM attack. -> See: Info-Sec Heaven at URL http://all.net/ Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236
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
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