Mandatory Email verification
Jim McCoy
mccoy at io.com
Fri Sep 30 12:43:37 PDT 1994
Ken Landaiche:
>
> I've been vaguely following the thread, which seems to be attempting to
> close a loophole in port 25. Assuming you succeeded, wouldn't a clever
> demon hacker simply find another way to forge messages?
Probably. The only thing this would do is make forging a mail message a
non-trivial operation. It in no way makes forging an email message
impossible, it just makes it a little bit harder than telneting to the smtp
port.
> This
> leads me to believe that eventually we will have to begin acting on our
> honor, and provide severe consequences for dishonorable behavior.
Like what? When identity is "weak" then honor has no meaning...
jim
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