CDR: Re: -C-P- Re: would it be so much to ask..

Riad S. Wahby rsw at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 20 06:14:15 PDT 2000


Jim Choate <ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com> wrote:
> Nah, there's all kinds of ways around that. If it was as simple as
> grabbing the source address in a sendmail log most of the spammers would
> have been put out of business a long! time ago.

Well, we're assuming that one needs anonymity for something more than
just posting spam.  Presumably, if e.g. the US government wants you,
they'll subpoena logs and find you.

> As to finding them, those socialist bastards at ORBS and the like keep
> handy lists available.

True enough.

> Irrelevant. Forge your source IP headers.

Right.  Except that Asymmetric was claiming that one could simply set
the SMTP server to one that you believe not to do logging (and
implicitly, something that does open relaying) and then just change
your "From" header.  Forging the source IP address works, but it's
outside the scope of Asymmetric's suggestion, which is what I was
responding to.

--
Riad Wahby
rsw at mit.edu
MIT VI-2/A 2002

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