why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Fri Mar 28 06:14:46 UTC 2014


On Mar 27, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Brandon Ross <bross at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 27, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Please explain in detail where the fraud potential comes in.
> 
> Spammer uses his botnet of zombie machines to send email from each of them to his own domain using the user's legitimate email address as From:. Spammer says it was unsolicited and keeps the full $.10/email that victim users have deposited into this escrow thing.
> 
> Sounds a lot more profitable than regular spam.

You say this like having a tax on running a botted computer on the internet would be a bad thing.

I agree that it would provide a bit of profit to the spammers for a very short period of time, but I bet it would get a lot of bots fixed pretty quick.

Owen





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